00 — Profile

At the intersection of data science, econometrics, and applied statistics.

I'm an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Croatian Catholic University in Zagreb. My work sits where quantitative methods meet finance, economics, and digital media. I teach across the statistics curriculum, from introductory to multivariate, along with research methodology, data science, and digital media, and I lead a research project that brings these threads into conversation.

Outside the university, I've worked in financial markets and algorithmic trading, and partnered on applied research across a range of fields and methods, including time-series and financial econometrics, machine learning, NLP-driven media monitoring and narrative analysis, and social and digital analytics. Through all of it, the same rigorous, reproducible quantitative work that takes messy data and turns it into something a team can actually act on.

Assistant Professor · Croatian Catholic University, Zagreb Workshops · Economic Institute Zagreb Collaboration · Croatian National Bank
01 — Currently

In progress

02 — Research

Recent publications

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03 — Background

Path

PhD in Economics, University of Zagreb and University of Vienna. MSc in International Economics (Kiel Institute) and MSc in Finance (Zagreb). About eight years as a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar and the Faculty of Croatian Studies before joining the Croatian Catholic University. I publish in international and Croatian journals and speak regularly on advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making.

04 — Get in touch

Workshops, consulting, collaborations

If you have data you want turned into clear answers, or you'd like a workshop for your team, send a message — luka.sikic@unicath.hr.

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