Employment, research experience
Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
senior research fellow, 2019-
research fellow, 2016-2018
junior research fellow, 2011-2015
Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Methodology Department
researcher, 2019-2020
TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Survey Unit, Hungary
researcher, 2010-2011
Addiction Research Institute, Hungary
statistical analyst, 2008 - 2010
Education
PhD in sociology, 2015 , Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences
MA in Sociology, 2007 (specialization: Survey Statistics; Urban Studies and Human Ecology), Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences
MA in Political Science, 2005, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
2004-2007 ELTE Angelusz Róbert College for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
Main research grants/projects
2022-2025: János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2021-2025: Social context, social inequalities, and subjective well-being, NKFIH FK-134447, National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, principal investigator
2021-2024: Climate change and human health in Hungary, NKFIH FK-134351, National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, participant (PI: Tamás Hajdu)
2018-2021: János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017 – 2020: The impact of a restrictive abortion policy on infants’ health and on the socioeconomic outcomes of children and parents, NKFIH FK-124384, National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, principal investigator
2017 – 2020: Weather shocks and health: The effect of changing climate on birth outcomes and mortality in Hungary, NKFIH FK-124310, National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, participant (PI: Tamás Hajdu)
2013 - 2018: Crisis and social innovations, comparative social dynamics, MTA-ELTE Peripato Social Dynamics Research Group (HAS), participant
2014 - 2016: Integrative and disintegrative processes of the Hungarian Society, OTKA K-108836, Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, participant
2009 - 2010: “Dangers in schools – Report on school aggression in Hungary at the commission of Commissioner for educational rights”, researcher, head of research
2009 – 2010: “Environmental justice in Hungary”, project of Protect the Future (NGO), researcher
Awards
2021: Publication award of the Centre for Social Sciences
2018: Karl Polanyi Prize, Hungarian Sociological Association
2018: Publication award of the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian of Academy of Sciences
2013: Keleti Károly award, Hungarian Statistical Association
Refereeing
Journal of Population Economics, European Sociological Review, Economics & Human Biology, PLOS ONE, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Kyklos, International Journal of Consumer Studies, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Family Issues, International Journal of Social Welfare, Czech Sociological Review, European Journal of Midwifery, Advances in Health Sciences Education, Frontiers in Psychology, Evaluation Review, Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences, Közgazdasági Szemle, Szociológiai Szemle, Politikatudományi Szemle, Socio.hu - Társadalomtudományi Szemle, Erdélyi Társadalom, Kultúra és Közösség, Területi Statisztika
Other professional activities
Committee on Sociology, IX. Section of Economics and Law, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member [2024 - ]
Editor: socio.hu - Social Science Review (peer reviewed online journal of the Institute for Sociology, CSS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) [2012 - 2024]
Selected conference presentations
2025
2nd Welfare & Policy Conference, Bordeaux
2024
5th International ESS Conference, Lisboa
Annual conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Barcelona
In_equality Conference 2024, Konstanz
2023
57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, online
Annual conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Prague
Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Budapest
2022
1st ISSP User Conference – Social Inequality, online
Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Miskolc
2021
Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, online
19th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, online
15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, online
2020
Annual Conference of the British Society for Population Studies, online
2019
The 33rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Bath
17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, Granada
Annual Meeting, Population Association of America, Austin, TX
2018
European Population Conference, Brussels
2017
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens
2016
3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, Wien
Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Pécs
2015
12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Prague
27th SASE Annual Meeting, London
Conference on Social Changes of Silk Road Economic Belt Countries, Shanghai.
2014
The XII. Quality of Life Conference, Berlin.
2012
11th Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, Venice.