Dr. Ana Slavec is employed at the University of Primorska, partly as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, and partly as a research fellow at the Andrej Marušič Institute, InnoRenew CoE research group.

She holds a degree in sociology – social informatics and a PhD in statistics, both from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, where she worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Informatics and later at the Social Science Data Archive. Her dissertation focused on improving the wording of survey questions using linguistic resources. During her studies, she began writing and co‑editing a blog that received an award for excellence in statistical reporting.

At the University of Primorska, she teaches statistics and contributes to the implementation of the national open science action plan, as well as to the open science working group of the T4EU university alliance, and she is trained as a data steward. Her research focuses on the use of survey methods in the field of sustainable construction, and she leads the project Social‑psychological aspects of long‑term decision‑making of private forest and home owners (SLOTH).

She is the president of the Slovenian Open Science Community (SSOZ) and a member of the open science working group at the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency.