Coffee & Chill with Dr. Elma Hot Dervic

When big names in STEM come to town, Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation always hosts them and gives them a chance to to engage with the bright minds of our country. We ensure that knowledge bearers have an opportunity to meet the up and coming talent and share their best practices with them. Most recently we hosted Elma Hot Dervic, a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical University of Vienna.

The event was attended by our scholars and alumni: Jana Jerkic, Emina Ocuz, Lejla Heleg, and Mirza Sijamic. They took advantage of this unique opportunity to ask Elma about the cutting-edge applications and real-world challenges of data science. In addition, the discussed topics included opportunities for studying in Austria and conducting scientific research at the Medical University of Vienna. Elma's infectious enthusiasm and wealth of experience inspired our scholars to push boundaries, broaden their horizons, and pursue paths in their professional journeys unconventional for our society.

About Elma

Elma Dervic is a Postdoc at the Complexity Science Hub.

She completed her PhD at CSH and the  Medical University of Vienna in January 2023. Elma holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Montenegro, which she earned in 2015 and 2017, respectively.

Before joining CSH, Elma was a junior researcher at the First Center of Excellence (BIO-ICT) at the University of Montenegro.     Additionally, she is a co-founder of BeeAnd.me, a venture-funded IoT startup that uses technology to help beekeepers and bees through data science.

Elma is known as a 3-time “share positive impact” TEDx speaker. Elma’s research interests include machine learning, network science, and everything impactful related to data science.

Currently, she is working with medical data on unraveling disease trajectories. Furthermore, she is working on trading data to analyze systemic risk in supply chains.