Petra Kralj Novak recieved a Ph.D. at Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2009. She is research assistant at the Department of Knowledge Technologies at Jozef Stefan Institute. Her research work concerns the study and development of data mining techniques and their application to real-world problems from different areas e.g., microbiology, medicine and manufacturing. Her current research focuses on supervised descriptive induction as well as the development of techniques appropriate for analyzing microarray data.