Tijana Janjic is Heisenberg Professor of data assimilation at the Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science, KU Eichstaett-Ingol-stadt, Germany. She received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from University of Maryland and the B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Belgrade. To date, her international and interdisciplinary career led to significant contributions to both theory and real-life applications in the field of data assimilation. Her scientific papers span topics in convective scale data assimilation, numerical methods, uncertainty quantification, large-scale linear and nonlinear constrained optimization and data science. She has been serving as Associate Editor for Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems and QJRMS. She is also a recipient of prestigious Heisenberg funding of German Science Foundation (DFG)