Iwona Bąk is an Associate Professor at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland. She is the Head of Mathematics in the Economics Department and the editor of the Statistical Journal Folia Pomeranae Universitatis Technologiae Stetinensis Oeconomica. She is a member of the Classification and Data Analysis Section of the Polish Statistical Society, the Polish Economic Society, and the Polish Society of Gerontology. She is an expert in the field of quantitative methods, specializing in analyses regarding the use of quantitative methods in economic research, with a particular emphasis on the labor market and tourism, as well as regional development. She is the author or co-author of more than 200 reviewed papers, including academic books, and she also has practical experience in the implementation of projects carried out on behalf of public institutions.