Sergeja Slapnicar

Associate Professor Sergeja Slapnicar is a faculty member at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. Her work focuses on financial quantification of cyber risk, cyber risk governance, and security assurance. She also engages in experimental accounting research examining behavioral aspects of risk and performance management.

As a passionate educator, she has received multiple teaching awards including the 2022 UQ Business Teaching Excellence Award, 2023 UQ Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, and 2024 Australian Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Her industry experience includes serving on boards of a European systemic bank, pharmaceutical corporation, and audit committees in Slovenia.

Her recent publications focus on:

• Cyber risk quantification (2025 studies in Australasian Journal of Information Systems and Computers and Security)
• Cyber governance (2024-2023 works on ISACA Journal and International Journal of Accounting Information Systems)
• Behavioral accounting (2022-2021 studies in Journal of Management Control and Behavioral Research in Accounting)

Scientific awards:

• 2022 Teaching Excellence Award (UQ Business, Economics and Law Faculty)
• 2023 UQ Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
• 2024 Australian Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

She supervises PhD students in:

• Cybersecurity risk management (Principal Advisor)
• Business intelligence and decision biases (Associate Advisor)