Codruța MARE is a Prof. at the Dep. of Statistics-Forecasts-Mathematics and Ph.D. coordinator in the field of Cybernetics and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and the Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Science at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She got her Ph.D. degree from the University of Trieste, Italy. She teaches Statistics and Econometrics, with significant expertise in research and consultancy. Her research interests are related to both methodological developments and applied methods in statistics and econometrics. She is currently a member of the Spatial Econometrics Association and the Romanian Statisticians Club.