A Projekt 1 és a Projekt 2 tantárgy során az adatelemzési és a módszertani feladatokat a hallgatók csoportban végzik. A hallgató a Projekt 1 és 2 tantárgyak során sajátítja el a tudományos megnyilvánulás azon elemeit, amelyek használata a 3. fejezet sikeres megírásához elengedhetetlen.
Institute of Economics
Ahmet holds a BSc degree in Mathematics from Bilkent University, a MSc degree in Economics from METU and a PhD in Economics from ESSEC Business School. He obtained his PhD on June 2024.
His recent work focuses on the impact of global financial markets on the transmission of local monetary policy and the influence of exchange rates on firm-level outcomes. He employs various forms of micro-level data along with financial time series data in his research. So far, he taught “”International Finance”” and “”Macroeconomics”” at ESSEC as an associate lecturer. He is currently teaching Macroeconomics at Corvinus in the PPE program.
In the coming years, he intends to extend this research agenda by incorporating banks into his analyses using micro-level data and state-of-the-art methodologies and publish his work in the leading journals of the field. Besides, he is strongly committed to sharing the knowledge that he has accumulated over the years with his students and guiding them on their own journeys.
Institute of Finance
Milán Csaba Badics graduated from the Corvinus University of Budapest. After a short period of consulting work in data mining, he started his PhD studies at the Doctoral School of Economics in September 2014. In 2017, he completed the PhD students’ program at the MNB PADS Foundation. Since September 2017, he has been teaching as an assistant professor at the Institute of Finance, coordinating the Master of Investments course for several years. He is currently the course leader for the undergraduate course in Financial Data Analysis, the Investments course in Finance of Finance and Financial Econometrics. Besides his teaching duties, Milán plays an active role in the University’s talent management. In recent years, he has advised 50 TDK theses awarded prizes, and his students have also won 22 OTDK prizes. Three of his students have won Pro Sciencia awards, and he has been named Teacher of the Year in 2021. His research interests in financial econometrics include modeling high-dimensional data and financial networks. In his dissertation, he presented a new regularization procedure (adaptive joint LASSO), which he used for a network of financial institutions. His paper about the sovereign yield curve network of 12 developed markets and the impact of FED decisions on the system was published in the Q1 journal in 2023. In addition to his university work, he was a researcher at Falkstenen AB’s FX derivatives trading division from 2016 to 2019. Since 2020, he has been the co-owner of the software development company GOLIAT Trading Technology Ltd.
Institute of Social and Political Sciences
Péter Balázs graduated from the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2019, majoring in Public Policy and Management, and started his PhD studies immadiately, at the Doctoral School of Business and Management. He defended his dissertation titled “Comparative analysis of direct and indirect health state utility measurements” summa cum laude in 2023. He joined the Department of Health Policy in January 2021 as an intern, then as an assistant lecturer and from February 2023 as a research-track assistant professor. His main research interests are health economic evaluations and systematic literature review.
Institute of Sustainable Development
László Czaller is the assistant professor at Corvinus University of Budapest and research fellow at HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies. He previously worked as a public policy analyst at the HÉTFA Research Institute and was an external lecturer at ELTE for a decade. He is currently involved in research on agglomeration economics and local labour markets. He holds a PhD in geography from ELTE University. In his thesis he modelled endogenous regional growth in the presence of trade and factor mobility. He is currently leading an OTKA project investigating the role of labour market matching in generating agglomeration benefits.
Center For Educational Quality Enhancement And Methodology
Olga Csillik obtained her degrees in Hungarian Language and Literature, as well as Pedagogy, from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University. She earned her PhD at the Doctoral School of Educational Sciences at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, with a dissertation focused on the ecosystem-based analysis of teacher effectiveness.
Since 2003, she has been working at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and is currently the head of the Educational Methodology Group at the Centre for Educational Quality Enhancement and Methodology. Since 2019 she has been an expert for the Hungarian Accreditation Committee and a founding member of the Higher Education Methodology and Educational Informatics Forum of the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference.
Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences
Davinia Thornley’s interests lie in media, communication, and cultural theory; film festivals; national cinema; indigenous media; and audience/identity studies. At the start of her academic career she published a number of articles and book chapters on indigenous issues and events, nationality, and Aotearoa New Zealand cinema. Her manifesto, Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), addressed all of these areas and shifted her research focus toward adaptation.
She led the international Screenwriting Research Network 2017 conference in Aotearoa, being particularly interested in how screenplays negotiate the relationship between real-life events and cultural memory. Her edited collection, True Event Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives (Palgrave MacMillan 2018), grew out of this event.
More recently, she has chosen to direct her research toward a topic that represents her own lived experience: negotiating (and communicating!) your identity as a childfree person. As the editor of Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children (Rutgers UP, 2022), she is proud to have brought this collection to publication as the first step in a larger program of research on representations of the childfree demographic.
A life-long traveler–having lived and worked in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Japan, America, England, and now Hungary–Davinia arrived here with her dog, Pace.
Institute of Global Studies Denis
Ivanov is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Corvinus University of Budapest. His research interests include economic inequality, populism, the political economy of transition and quantitative methods. He has received several prestigious awards, including the CKK Research Excellence Award (2024), the Hans Raupach Best Paper Award (2020) at the 12th Joint IOS/EACES Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe, and most recently, the EACES Doctoral Award (2024) for the best doctoral dissertation in comparative economic systems. His work has been published in the European Journal of Political Economy, Comparative Economic Studies, and East European Politics.
Institute of Strategy and Management
Zoltán Fülöp pursued most of his university studies at Corvinus University. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Economic and Rural Development, followed by a master’s in Entrepreneurship Development, and later earned a PhD specializing in Business Economics and Corporate Economics. During his studies, he became involved in research and supported teaching through a demonstrator program. Initially, his research focused on the labor market, employment, and productivity, and later he explored how digitalization changes and the Industry 4.0 trends affect these areas. Following that, his research shifted towards examining global value chains, added value and the position of national economies. His work typically involves macro-level research, but some details are often explored through micro-level data collection and analysis. Alongside his PhD studies, he started teaching as a teaching assistant, initially part-time, then full-time. Over the past six years, he has had the opportunity to teach various subjects, such as Business Economics, Strategic Management, Planning and Controlling, among others.
In addition to his academic career, he is also an entrepreneur, so he places great emphasis on university-business collaborations and the integration of current, practical experiences into education. One of his greatest achievements to date is working with several talented alumni who once attended his classes and are now actively engaged in either corporate projects or university research, with some considering PhD studies.
Institute of Strategy and Management
Dorottya Ginovszky-Bodnár has started her work as an Assistant Professor in September 2024 at the Department of Management and Organization. She finished her PhD, Summa cum laude in 2020 at Corvinus in the Doctoral School of Business and Management, the topic of her dissertation was visitor experience in museums. She has gained a wide range of academic and business experience, also had the opportunity several times to study and work abroad (Belgium, England, Scotland, Italy), that enables her joining academic work in an international environment.
She has observed the operation of both private and public sector, working on EU- and governmental financed development projects in various fields of tourism (such as National Castles and Forts Program, where she had also managerial duties being the Head of Tourism Department). She has been a guest-teacher for several years at Corvinus University of Budapest teaching courses related to cultural tourism and tourism management.
During these years of working at public sector, she realized how important the role of leadership and methodology of management are in the changing and challenging times. Developing and operating tourism attractions in a financial, environmental and social sustainable way is highly dependent on the structure of the organisation and on management issues. Based on the above-mentioned observations, her intended research fields are examining different aspects of corporate management, public sector governance and change management related to interorganizational networks in the field of tourism.
Institute of Social and Political Sciences
Miklós Hajdu is an assistant professor of the Department of Sociology at the Corvinus University of Budapest, where he began his academic career in 2016 as a PhD student then became an assistant lecturer in 2017 and the member of the Social Epidemiology Research Group in 2019. By that time, he had already gained experience with corruption and labor market research at the Corruption Research Center Budapest and the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research and contributed to market research and medical research projects as a statistician after graduating in survey statistics from Eötvös Loránd University in 2014. In 2018, he also joined a Hungarian portal specializing in economics called G7.hu as a data journalist.
He is particularly interested in solving methodological and statistical problems and various topics related to economic sociology (corruption, good governance, use of EU funds) and studying deviant behavior; furthermore, recently he began dealing with protest cultures. His teaching portfolio mostly consists of methodological courses, but he also gives introductory lectures to social sciences. He contributed to domestic and international journal articles and books published by the CEU Press and Palgrave Macmillan, and to reports used by the European Commission.
Institute of Strategy and Management
Hirra joined Corvinus University in September this year as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Strategy and Management (OB and HRD Department). Before Corvinus, she worked as a lecturer at Monash University Malaysia and as an academic lecturer at Chaohu University in Anhui Province of China.
Her academic foundation was laid in China, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in mechatronics engineering. This technical background provided her with a unique lens through which she sees organizational systems and processes.She then pursued an MBA, which sparked her interest in the human side of management and organizational behavior. The culmination of her formal education came with a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Science and Technology of China in July 2021. This rigorous program honed her skills as a researcher and set the stage for her current research interests.
At the heart of her academic pursuits lies a deep interest in positive organizational scholarship—a field of study that seeks to understand and promote the best of the human condition in organizational settings. Her research is driven by a fundamental question: What makes work worth working? The curiosity in this question has led her to explore several interconnected areas where she looked at how relationships at work and the interactions at/with work shape the workplace experiences and outcomes of (diverse) employees. She does work in leader-follower dynamics and how they impact workplace outcomes, cross-cultural differences (and similarities) in management practices, EDI that works for all, and the tools and practices that make the pedagogy of business education effective. Her scholarly ethos is that research should not only spark debate among researchers but also lead to new and enhanced ways of thinking in the real world. She aspire to do research that makes the world a better place, one project at a time.
I consider myself a global citizen, and Hungary is the 5th country I am living in. My academic and personal journey has taken me across countries and continents. These international experiences have broadened the lens through which I see the world around me and shaped my approach to living, teaching, and researching. Looking ahead, I am excited to work with my colleagues at Corvinus, to contribute to the institution’s goals, and to grow as an individual through new experiences in Hungary!
More information about my research and teaching can be found on my website: https://sites.google.com/view/hirrapervezbutt
Institute of Finance
Institute of Social and Political Sciences
Jacob Thomas (Ph.D., UCLA, M.A. University of Chicago, B.A. UC Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department of Corvinus University of Budapest and a Research Fellow at Princeton University’s Center on Migration and Development. His mixed-methods research addresses the questions of why more people do not migrate or travel internationally, migrant selectivity, the limited ability of states to control migration, and how migratory opportunities are stratified along a variety of intersecting dimensions. He has published research in Theory and Society, International Migration, the European Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, and the International Journal of Sociology, and his forthcoming book Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Never Immigrate is under contract and forthcoming in 2025 with Cambridge University Press.
Institute of Social and Political Sciences
Jekatyerina Dunajeva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy at Budapest Corvinus University, holding a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oregon. Before joining Corvinus, she taught at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, where she was recognized as one of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences’ most popular lecturers.
Her research spans education policy, labor policy, minority inclusion, and identity politics, with a focus on Eastern Europe and Russia. Her expertise in qualitative and multidisciplinary research methods is grounded in extensive fieldwork across diverse regions. She has published widely on these topics, including the book “”Constructing Identities over Time””, and has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journals.
Throughout her career, Dr. Dunajeva has also engaged in international research collaborations addressing educational inequality and societal inclusion. Her work bridges academic inquiry and policy relevance, ensuring meaningful connections between research and practical implementation. Looking ahead, Dr. Dunajeva is committed to continuing her contributions to high-quality academic publications and expanding her involvement in international networks. Her goal is to further explore global challenges while fostering inclusive and equitable systems through impactful research.
Institute of Finance
Jiyuan Huang is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Corvinus University of Budapest. He completed his PhD in Finance at the University of Zurich in 2023, specializing in empirical corporate finance and banking. His research focuses on corporate finance, financial intermediation, applied econometrics, and machine learning.
Dr. Huang’s work has been widely recognized within the academic community. He has presented his research at leading international conferences, including the IAAE 2023 in Oslo, the 2023 AMES in Beijing and Singapore, the EEA-ESEM 2023 in Barcelona, the EFA 2023 in Amsterdam, and the FIRS 2024 in Berlin. His participation in these conferences reflects his active engagement in advancing empirical finance and econometrics.
Looking ahead, Dr. Huang’s research will continue to explore advanced econometric techniques and their application in empirical finance. His long-term research agenda remains centered on empirical corporate finance and banking, leveraging machine learning to generate new insights and improve methodologies in the field.
Institute of Strategy and Management
Zoltán Soma Kárpáti started his PhD studies at the Institute of Strategy and Management in 2019. He spent the last semester of his doctoral studies as an Erasmus+ scholarship student at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. He defended his thesis in March 2024 with summa cum laude rating, in which he examined the professionalization and competitiveness of Hungarian family firms.
During his doctoral studies, Soma published several single and co-authored papers in the highest-ranked journal, Budapest Management Review, and his most recent co-authored paper was published in a Scimago Journal Ranked Q1 journal. He has been an active speaker at national and international conferences, presenting his research in Miskolc, Pécs, Budapest, and 2021 at the International Family Enterprise Research Academy, the most prestigious international conference on family business research.
In addition to his doctoral studies, he was awarded the Scholarship of the Corvinus Center of Family Business. He also participated in the Thematic Programme of Excellence 2020 – National Challenges Research research group. During his doctoral training, he was twice awarded the New National Excellence Programme Young Researcher Fellowship and, subsequently, the University Research Fellowship in the category of Young Researcher. In spring 2024, he was also awarded the Corvinus Research Excellence award in the category of Young Researcher. In addition to his research work, he has also been committed to promoting the doctoral program, and in 2022, he was an ambassador for the Corvinus Doctoral School programs. He has been working as an assistant professor since August 2024.
Institute of Economics
Márton earned his bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics in 2014 and his master’s degree in Management and Leadership with a specialization in Controlling and Performance Management in 2016, both at Corvinus University. In the same year, he began his doctoral studies in the Doctoral School of Economics, Business and Informatics, specializing in Institutional Economics, and he received his PhD in 2023. In his doctoral research, he examined the institutional aspects of the provision of public services. As a researcher, he participated in several national (EFOP) and international research groups (H2020; COST), focusing on public services and innovation in the public sector. He started teaching as a PhD student and, from 2018, as an assistant lecturer, where he taught courses such as Institutional Economics, Public Economics, and Comparative Economics, Political Economy. Additionally, he has also led courses in colleges. He is proud to have received the Lecturer of the Year award in 2021.
Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences
Julianna Kiss is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences, Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest. She completed her PhD summa cum laude in Social Policy at the Eötvös Loránd Science University, Faculty of Social Sciences in 2018. In her dissertation she examined the emergence and institutionalization of the social enterprise field in Hungary. Besides, she has MA degrees from English Language and Literature (including a teacher’s degree), Communication and Sociology. Prior to her involvement in academia, for seven years she had worked as researcher and project coordinator in different civil society organizations focusing on active civic participation and strengthening vulnerable social groups. Since 2016, she has been working in the academic sphere, at first participating in the research projects of the University of Miskolc. Since 2018, she has worked as Assistant Research Fellow, then Research Fellow at the Department of Decision Sciences at CUB. After her maternity leave between May 2020 and October 2023, she was appointed Assistant Professor. She has participated in and led various international projects and domestic initiatives, is the author of several journal articles and book chapters and has helped organizing workshops and conferences about the social economy and social enterprises. She has taught and participated in the development of the courses titled Decision Techniques for BA students in Hungarian and English, and Social Enterprises and the Social Economy for MA students in Hungarian.
Institute of Finance
Zsolt Lakatos submitted his assistant professor application in November 2023, which was considered successful by the management of the Financial Institute and appointed Zsolt as an assistant professor. Zsolt began his doctoral studies at the Budapest Corvinus University (BCE) in 2016 and successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in July 2023. Zsolt previously obtained a diploma in mechanical engineering, completed the Bank Diploma course of the International Banker Training Center, as well as an economics degree in finance from the legal predecessor of BCE, the Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration. In 2016, Zsolt obtained a finance master’s degree in investment analysis at the BCE. In addition to the doctoral training at the BCE, Zsolt also studied at the doctoral training program of the Pallas Athéné foundation of the Hungarian National Bank. Moreover, Zsolt obtained an EFFAS (European Association of Investment Analysts) diploma. Between 2018 and 2021, Zsolt participated in the Topic Excellence Program announced by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, in the framework of which two of his studies were published, and one more is expected to be published soon. Zsolt has been continuously teaching financial subjects in English and Hungarian since autumn 2016. Zsolt’s next goal is, of course, to win the appointment of a university associate professor. To achieve this goal, Zsolt tries to improve the quality of his education, the results of MyView and CTE. Zsolt tries to meet university requirements regarding in research and he is currently working on a research project. Zsolt’s research areas include corporate governance, corporate finance, company valuation, and empirical asset pricing. Zsolt is a CTE, Bloomberg and Refinitive contact person.
Institute of Social and Political Sciences
Csaba Molnár was born on 3 September 1991 in Gyula. He studied political science at the Corvinus University of Budapest from 2010. He studied at Nottingham Trent University in the framework of the Erasmus programme. In 2023, he received his PhD degree.
Since February 2014, he has been working at the Comparative Agendas Project of the Institute of Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (now HUN-REN). He has also been involved in the poltextLAB project, and together with László Kiss, he has led a sub-project of the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory. Since 2019, he has been teaching at the Department of Political Science at the BCE.
He has participated in twenty-five international conferences as a presenter. He has published eight academic journal articles, four of them in English, all in journals with at least Q1 ranking. He is co-author of a monograph and co-editor of an edited volume. Twenty-five book chapters have been published by him, four of them in English. He has one hundred and three independent citations and a Hirsch index of six. In recognition of his work, he won the Young Researcher of the Year Award at the Institute of Political Science of the ELKH Social Science Research Centre in 2021. In 2024, he was awarded the MTA’s Bolyai János Research Scholarship.
He is married, father of three children, Torda, Illangó and Göncöl.
Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences
Adrienn Munkácsi obtained her economics teacher degree from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2008, followed by a distinguished qualification: Qualified Economist in the field of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in 2013. In 2015, she took a Certificate of Pedagogy with Special Qualification Examination in the field of Mentoring, which was followed by obtaining her doctoral degree. She obtained her PhD degree with Summa Cum Laude distinction in 2024 from the Supply Chain Management specialization of the Doctoral School of Business Administration at Corvinus University of Budapest.
Her research interest originates from her experiences gained during the dual training of logistics students. In her dissertation she examined the competencies expected in the labor market from the perspectives of students and employers in the field of supply chain management. For her it is of great importance to make her research results known to as wide an audience as possible, which she aims to achieve by participating in domestic and international conferences and continuously publishing her new research findings. She is a committed advocate of the LLL theory, which she emphasizes the importance of during knowledge sharing with the students. The application of the diverse toolkit of pedagogical methods plays important role in her life. Since 2017, she has been teaching at BCE, first in an assistant professor position and then as an associate professor.
Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences
Alexandra Nagy-Béni is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Science at Corvinus University of Budapest. Her main research area is the visual representation of violence in online news, primarily from the perspective of visual metonymic framing. In a broader sense, she deals with media representations, visual communication and the use of cognitive linguistic tools in media research. She is a founding member of the Corvinus Metaphor Workshop, which aims to bring together the applied metaphor research of Corvinus students and faculty, and disseminate the findings of these research projects to a wider audience. She is a regular presenter at the Researchers’ Night as she is passionate about popularising science. Having recently obtained her doctorate, she now strives to give back to the Corvinus community by creating an environment for students where learning is enjoyable and inspiring.
Institute of Sustainable Development
Zsófia Nemes studied at the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, majoring in international studies between 2010 and 2014. From 2014 to 2016, she studied at the same master’s program, specializing in European development policy.
In the 2015/16 academic year, she was a teaching assistant at the Department of European Studies of ELTE, then after obtaining her diploma she taught for 1 year in the international studies bachelor’s program.
In 2017, she was accepted for PhD in the Geopolitics and Sustainable Development Doctoral Program of Corvinus University of Budapest. She became a lecturer at the GEO Institute and later at the GEO Department, in parallel with her doctoral studies. Between 2018 and 2021, she worked as a project assistant at the Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science, coordinating activities supported by the PADME Foundation. She took a decisive role in the organization of numerous domestic and international projects, conferences and other professional events. She was the editor of several books and conference proceedings. From 2021, she became a full-time assistant lecturer, and from January 2023, assistant professor at the Institute of Sustainable Development, at the Department of Sustainability Management and Environmental Economics.
She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled The circular economic model in industrial parks – International (good) practices and the domestic potential in October 2023.
Her research and teaching focus areas include: circular economic model, industrial symbioses, corporate environmental management, global and regional sustainability challenges.
Since February 2023, she has been representing Corvinus University of Budapest in the organization called PRME, the Principles for Responsible Management Education, operating under the auspices of the United Nations. She is currently the secretary of the organization’s Central and Eastern European Chapter, until 2027.
Institute of Finance
Emilia Németh-Durkó is an assistant professor at the Institute of Finance, Corvinus University of Budapest. She received her PhD degree in 2022, her doctoral thesis is entitled: „Environment. Growth. Finance. An empirical analysis of the Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis”. Her main taught subjects are Corporate Finance and Green Finance. Her research interests are in climate change and sustainability aspects of finance, with a focus on green finance and the impact of green bond issuance on corporate innovation performance. She has always been interested in the economic focus of environmental protection and environmental economics. In 2013, she was awarded 1st place in the National Student Research Conference for her student research paper and was awarded the Pro Scientia Gold Medal by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Emilia Németh-Durkó was awarded the Green Financial Science Talent Award for her outstanding research work in 2023.
Institute of Finance
Noémie Aimée Cabau completed a co-tutelle Ph.D. in Economics degree between Concordia University (Canada) and Paris Dauphine (France) with the Fonds de Recherche du Québec en Sciences Sociales scholarship. Areas of specialisation are non-cooperative network formation, information disclosure (persuasion) and drug pricing. Previously a post-doctoral fellow at the QSMS Research group of BME. Past courses taught: Microeconomics (Bachelor’s), Game Theory (Master’s), Macroeconomics (Bachelor’s), Mathematics for Economists (Bachelor’s).
Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems, CIAS
Rebeka O. Szabo is an assistant professor at the Center for Collective Learning, where she leads the Organizational Dynamics Research Group. She is also a faculty member at the Department of Network Science in the Data Analytics and Information Systems Institute. With a Ph.D. in Network and Data Science from Central European University and background in organizational sociology, Rebeka’s research stands at the intersection of organization science, applied social psychology, and complexity science, with a particular focus on team dynamics, collaboration networks, and role structures. Her research has been focused on the social dynamics of teams in high-pressure environments like escape rooms.
She was a visiting researcher at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and at the Northwestern Institute of Complex Systems.
Rebeka publishes in both the organizational science domain, such as Small Group Research, and interdisciplinary journals, such as Scientific Reports. She earned the Corvinus Research Excellence Award in 2022. She aim to translate her findings into practical solutions to social problems, particularly in organizational environments.
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Bence László Pistrui is recently appointed Assistant Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research interests include the impact of digitalisation in retail. He is a committed, open-minded, and motivating educator with a special interest in case-based learning, teaching and using digital solutions, and mentoring young people.
He completed both his bachelor and master studies at Corvinus from 2010-2016 and later enrolled in PhD studies also at Corvinus in 2017.
Since 2014, he has been involved in teaching, first as a Teaching Assistant, then as an external lecturer, and later as a PhD student.
Since 2020, he has been a Teaching Assistant coordinator, first at the Institute of Business Economics and later at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
In 2019 and 2022, he participated in the PHD workshop of the SGH Collegium of World Economy in Warsaw and, in 2023, in the CEEMAN-IMTA training in Bled.
Along with several colleagues, he received the Publication Excellence Award in the textbook category in 2021.
He received the Lecturer of the Year award at Corvinus in 2022.
He participates in international case competitions as an advisor. He is project manager of the Corvinus Undergraduate Business Experience, an international case competition organised by the university.
Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences
Sabrina Pasztor holds a Ph.D. in Communications and Media and a specialization in Gender Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a master’s in industrial labor relations (MILR) from Cornell University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College. She has 16 years’ experience in the academic and administrative arenas in higher education and 14 years’ in corporate and consulting positions.
Dr. Pasztor was most recently on faculty at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She held an administrative position as the inaugural USC Director, Culture Transformation in the Office of Culture, Ethics and Compliance with oversight of the university’s transformation to redefine, align, and improve the university’s values and processes impacting 75,000 faculty, staff and students. From 2015-2019, she was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Business Communication at USC’s Marshall School of Business. She was the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award for 2023-2024 and taught business communication and intercultural communication at Corvinus.
Prior to academia, Dr. Pasztor was a Senior Strategic Management Consultant at Pricewaterhouse LLP and IBM, implementing global organizational alignment, business process reengineering, strategic communication and training strategy for Fortune 500 cross-industry clients, and Director of Curriculum Design & Development for an 18,000-member professional trade association in the real estate industry.
Dr. Pasztor’s research examines organizational and strategic professional communications, media framing, critical cultural studies, intercultural communication, and identity representations in organizational and popular culture.
Her native and ethnic roots are from Chicago, Illinois and Hungary.
Institute of Strategy and Management
Xénia Szanyi-Gyenes defended her doctoral thesis in February 2024. Her thesis is entitled “Analysis of the Competitiveness of Hungarian Companies from the Perspective of Internationalization”. Her research interests include the competitiveness of domestic companies, the international growth potential of domestic companies, management challenges, and the challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises. Xénia is a member of the Institute of Strategy and Management and has been an active lecturer at the University for many years, teaching Strategy and Business Planning at the Bachelor’s level, Strategic Management at the Master’s level, and Solving Strategic Problems as a course leader and lecturer. Xénia also places a strong emphasis on mentoring students, organizing the Strategic Management section of the Scientific Students’ Associations Conference. She has been an active member of the research project “Future Organization and Management” at the Institute of Strategy and Management, she has worked of the research topic on internationalization of domestic companies. Her publications in recent years have focused on the competitiveness of domestic companies and the factors influencing the competitiveness of companies in international markets.
Institute of Economics
CIAS
György Túry’s professional interests started with the study of 20th century and contemporary American culture and media and gradually moved towards more contextual schools of cultural studies with a greater emphasis on mediatization. In 2005/06 he was awarded a Fulbright postgraduate research grant at Columbia University.
From the late 2000s Túry worked simultaneously in two new academic roles. Firstly, in the Hungarian context, he held positions in administration, and was responsible for internationalisation at a private university (2008-2020). Secondly, in the US context, he was awarded a second Fulbright grant as a researcher and visiting professor at Ohio State University from 2012 to 2014, and then worked as co-Academic Director of OSU’s summer university courses in Hungary for almost a decade (2013-2019). During these years, he also participated in and led three major international higher education and research projects. He has published in Hungarian and English, and the outcome of one of his most recent resarch projects will result in the publication of a co-edited book by Palgrave Macmillan in 2025.
His professional career to date illustrates this dual identity, based on significant international experience: on the one hand, he is a university lecturer and researcher, and on the other hand, he has 10-15 years of successful experience as a university middle- and senior manager, especially in the field of internationalisation of higher education. His future academic plans at Corvinus University of Budapest, based on this national and international exeprience, are to support the university in its new goals to internationalize while preserving its legacy as an elite Hungarian center of higher education.
Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems, CIAS
Orsolya Vásárhelyi, is an assistant professor at Center for Collective Learning and at Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, where she leads the Computational Inequalities Research Group. She received her Ph.D. in Network Science from Central European University (Austria), previously worked at the University of Warwick (UK), and Northwestern University (USA, IL). She has published in leading interdisciplinary journals such as PNAS, Scientific Reports, and EPJ Data Science. She is a known expert in using large-scale data and computational methods to understand unconscious bias in Science & Technology. She is an ambassador for the Stanford University-based Global Women in Data Science Initiative and a member of the Data Science for Social Good Alumni.
Institute of Finance
After completing her Master’s in Economics with Finance specialization at Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB), Ágnes Vaskövi gained professional experience in fields of project financing, venture capital and real estate investments at various prestigious finance institutions in Hungary. She returned to the university in 2018, where she currently teaches corporate finance, banking, personal finances while supervising a number of master thesis projects on welfare and social finance topics. In her PhD dissertation, she dealt with the financial aspects of retirement readiness in the ageing societies.
CIAS
Tamas Veress serves as an assistant lecturer at the Business Ethics Center, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies. His research efforts center around the analysis and development of organizational models that prioritize genuine needs and sufficiency as key elements in collective action. His teaching contributions extend to courses such as Sustainable Value Creation, Business Ethics, Business Opportunities, Digital (non)Disruption, Ecological Economics and Decision Techniques. Simultaneously, he holds the position of a junior research fellow at The Economy of Francesco Fellowship Program. Furthermore, Tamas Veress actively participates in the establishment and coordination of ecoclubs—small, community-driven groups committed to practicing sustainable lifestyles. Tamas Veress has recently published a chapter on Principles and Models of Community Economies in Value Creation for a Sustainable World: Innovating for Ecological Regeneration and Human Flourishing, as well as a co-authored paper on The Roles of Community-Based Organizations in Socializing Sustainable Behavior.
Institute of Finance
A Projekt 1 és a Projekt 2 tantárgy során az adatelemzési és a módszertani feladatokat a hallgatók csoportban végzik. A hallgató a Projekt 1 és 2 tantárgyak során sajátítja el a tudományos megnyilvánulás azon elemeit, amelyek használata a 3. fejezet sikeres megírásához elengedhetetlen.
REKK (Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research)
Borbála Takácsné Tóth recently (2023) defended her PhD thesis at the International Relations and Security Studies program at the Corvinus University of Budapest. In 2001 she received an M.A. in International Relations and European Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. Borbala was educated as an economist and received her degree from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1998. She spent 5 years as a civil servant in government administration mostly in the field of energy regulation. Between 2001 and 2003 she was Head of the President’s Secretariat responsible for international relations of the Hungarian Energy Office. In this capacity she worked closely with international regulatory organizations like ERRA and CEER. Before that (1998-99) she worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs being responsible mostly for long term planning of highways.
With REKK she participated in several international and national research consultancy projects, with many using the European Gas Market Model as the primary analytic tool. Her main fields of expertise include: regional co-operations; security of supply issues; energy geopolitics; major infrastructure initiatives in the gas sector and incentives for investments; competition cases in the gas market; and the effect of gas release programs on competition in the gas market in Europe. In 2023 she was elected as member of the Trade Union Committee at Corvinus for 5 years
A Projekt 1 és a Projekt 2 tantárgy során az adatelemzési és a módszertani feladatokat a hallgatók csoportban végzik. A hallgató a Projekt 1 és 2 tantárgyak során sajátítja el a tudományos megnyilvánulás azon elemeit, amelyek használata a 3. fejezet sikeres megírásához elengedhetetlen.
Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences
Zombor Berezvai graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in applied economics, followed by master’s studies at Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Vienna. He joined Procter & Gamble as a finance manager in 2015. In 2016 he started his doctoral studies at the Doctoral School of Business and Management at Corvinus University of Budapest, where he received his PhD in 2021. In his dissertation, he studied the strategies of retail companies and their impact on firm performance. Since September 2019, he has served as the Chief Economist of the Hungarian Competition Authority, and since September 2020 he has been an Assistant Lecturer and then an Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, and since August 2024 he has been an Associate Professor. His research interests focus on sustainable transportation modes, economics of education, retail innovation and competition policy. He has a total of 14 D1 and 5 Q1 publications, with 727 Scopus citations. Since 2010 he has been teaching at various universities in Hungary, regularly lecturing on methodology, microeconomics and competition policy. He is a member of the editorial board of the Competition and Regulation yearbook, published by the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies. He has received several awards during his career, including the Pro Scientia Gold Medal in 2015 and the Academic Youth Award in 2023.
Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences
Orsolya Diófási-Kovács joined Corvinus in 2016 and she has been an enthusiastic and dedicated team member of the Department of Supply Chain Management.
Her academic career is based on her wish to maximize her personal impact on the world by educating the next generation of decision-makers on sustainability aspects of supply chains and corporate sustainability practices. This task calls for up-to-date knowledge, which is strongly supported by her scientific research activities. Regarding her research work she is involved in two EU funded innovation action projects and an OTKA research project. Her fields of research include sustainability/ESG in supply chains, green public procurement, sustainable food networks and green logistics. Currently she is the Head of International Supply Chain Management Specialization in the International Business program being responsible for the curriculum and management of 5 courses. She finds talent management an important duty and very much enjoys working with enthusiastic students, supervising TDK works and student competition teams. Currently she is co-supervising two phd students.
Institute of Global Studies
Viktória Endrődi-Kovács is an economist who got her master’s degree in international relations (with a minor in economic policy) at Corvinus University of Budapest in 2009. She obtained her PhD at the same university, at the International Relations Multidisciplinary Doctoral School, in 2014.
Viktória has a research focus on the economic integration of the Western Balkans and Central and Eastern European countries, as well as the competitiveness of SMEs. Her works have been published in prestigious journals such as Post-Communist Economies and Regional Statistics. She has participated in several national and international research projects. Under her supervision, two PhD students have already successfully defended their dissertations and published them in national and international journals.
Throughout her academic career, Viktória has received numerous recognitions for her work. In 2020, she was awarded the Teacher of the Year Award and won several awards for her contributions to the Scientific Students’ Associations (TDK) Conferences. She participated in the renewal of the International Business bachelor’s program and the International Economy and Business master’s program. She served as the program coordinator for the master’s program for six years and has been responsible for the Global Economy and Business specialization in the bachelor’s program since its launch. She has also been a guest lecturer at Ca Foscari, the University of Sarajevo, the University of Western Australia, and EM Strasbourg.
Institute of Economics
Gregor Bernhard Nicolaus von Schweinitz is an Associate Professor in Economics at Corvinus University since September 2024. He is also affiliated with the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) as a research professor.
Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor for Quantitative Macroeconomics at Leipzig University and as head of the research group “Volatility, Growth and Financial Crises” at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). For shorter periods of time, he was also an interim professor for Applied Macroeconomics at the University of Rostock, a guest researcher at the Deutsche Bundesbank and a lecturer at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
His research interest lie on macroeconomic consequences of financial crises. His research spans three broader topics. First, his work concerns the empirical interaction between financial markets and macroeconomic outcomes. In particular, he investigates the importance of credit demand and supply fluctuations for aggregate fluctuations, and the role of sovereign debt limitations (in the form of sovereign ratings or sovereign bond demand) on fiscal policy and macroeconomic outcomes. The second strand of his research concerns the implementation of models to produce timely warnings of impending crises. The third strand focuses on the combination of macroeconomic and microeconomic datasets for structural macroeconomic analysis.
His major research achievements over the past years were a third-party funding grant by the German Research Foundation, and several publications in journals like the Journal of Financial Stability, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance or the Journal of Macroeconomics.
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Zsolt Havran has been a full-time colleague at the Department of Business Studies at Corvinus University since 2017, starting his career at the Institute of Business Economics and currently he is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has previously worked in audit and consulting, including at companies such as KPMG and PwC. He completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Corvinus University. He is a former member and former director of the Széchenyi István Special College for Advanced Studies.
His main teaching and research interests are Business Economics, International Business Economics and Sport Management. He is an active participant of the European Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business (CEE Chapter) and the European Association for Sport Management. He has edited an international book with Edward Elgar Publishing, titled Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint. His current research focuses on understanding global talent migration, for which he and his co-authors investigate the international movement of professional footballers over several decades. Since 2022, he has been a member of EU Task Force for harmonization of sport statistical accounts project. He is particularly interested in mentoring talented students and is a supervisor of several TDK and OTDK winning essays.
He is currently in charge of the specialisation in sports management, a lecturer of several courses in sports business and aims to launch an English-language Master’s programme in International Sport Business at Corvinus.
Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Attila Kajos is an experienced academic and Head of Department who joined Corvinus University of Budapest in 2016. He earned his PhD in Business and Management from the University of Pécs in 2020. His main topic is Business and Management, with a focus on Sports Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Sports. He started his academic career as Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Sport Science and Physical Education at the University of Pécs, where he served from 2012 to 2019. He then joined Corvinus University as an assistant lecturer, advanced to senior assistant professor, and now earned the associate professor position.
Dr. Kajos has a strong research background, with key projects investigating sports motivation, consumer behaviour, and branding in sports contexts. His work includes multiple domestic and international collaborations, and he has actively contributed to the academic community through numerous journal articles, book chapters, conference presentations, and peer-review activities. He is deeply committed to talent development, and many of his students have achieved success in TDK and OTDK competitions.
As an educator, Dr. Kajos has taught a wide range of courses from Business Economics to Sports Business Case studies, both in Hungarian and English, across undergraduate and postgraduate levels while acting as head of the specialization in Corporate and Economic Analysis. He has been recognized for his teaching excellence multiple times, including a “Professor of the Year” award in 2023.
Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems
Gergely Kiss graduated and completed his PhD at ELTE. At the end of his PhD studies, he worked as a teaching assistant at BUTE for two years, from 2013 to 2015. In 2015, he successfully applied for a postdoctoral position at the University of Luxembourg, which he held until 2018. In 2019, he moved back to Hungary and applied for the Premium Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which he held from 2019 to 2022. In 2022, he applied for and was awarded the Bolyai Research Fellowship and an individual OTKA FK grant, both of which are still ongoing. In 2024 he was also selected to receive the Paul Erdős Prize for outstanding mathematical achievements. He joined BCU in fall 2024. His main research interests are in abstract harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, and functional equations.
CIAS
Gábor Kovács is an associate professor at the Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest. He completed his PhD studies in 2017. He participated in the research projects of the Business Ethics Center on the ethical value orientations and the ecological value orientations of Hungarian entrepreneurs. His research interests include Buddhist economics, business spirituality, Gross National Happiness, and business ethics in the Anthropocene. He has been secretary of the Hungarian Bhutan Friendship Society since 2011. He has been a member of the European SPES (Spirituality in Economics and Society) Institute since 2010. He has given presentations on Buddhism-related and business ethics-related topics at international conferences in Thailand, India, Vietnam, China, Belgium, Israel, Croatia, Austria, and Hungary.
Institute of Social and Political Sciences
Éva Margit Kovács is an Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, specializing in Public Policy and Public Administration. Her main research interests include public services, immigration policies, public administration reforms, government coordination, and civil society-government relations. Her work explores co-production, politicization, and patronage within the public sector.
In addition to her academic expertise, Éva has extensive experience as a talent manager for young professionals and in managing alumni networks. She has collaborated with various stakeholders across Trans-European and Trans-Atlantic environments, including academic institutions, multi-level government entities as a policy analyst and advisor, and business organizations as an HR consultant.
Her international experience includes visiting scholar positions in the U.S. at Indiana University and in Northern Ireland. She has been involved in numerous EU-funded international and domestic projects as a researcher, lead expert, and project manager. Notable projects include the COST Corex project and the FP7 project, and she has contributed as a country expert to preparing best practices, comprehensive country reports for the European Union.
Éva is also active in policy journalism, serving as both an author and a reviewer for academic journals. Her expertise includes organizing training programs for civil servants and developing training curricula and materials, aimed at strengthening public sector governance and capacity.
Institute of Global Studies
Tamás Matura, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, a Senior Fellow at CEPA Washington, and the Hungarian representative in the European Think Tank Network on China. His main research fields are Chinese foreign policy, EU-China and Sino-Hungarian relations. Nowadays he focuses on the tectonic changes in the international system, including US-EU-China relations.
Institute of Social and Political Sciences
Rudolf Metz is a political scientist and economist with extensive research and teaching experience in the fields of political leadership, political parties, and movements. He is an associate professor at the Institute of Political Science at Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as the director of the Doctoral Program in Political Science at the Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science. Additionally, he serves as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political Science of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences.
He began his studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, where he completed his undergraduate degree, followed by earning his master’s degrees and PhD at Corvinus University. Throughout his academic career, he has been awarded numerous fellowships and prizes, including the Youth Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Bolyai Research Fellowship, and the Corvinus Research Excellence Award. He has also been a two-time recipient of grants from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (OTKA).
Metz’s research focuses on the examination of charismatic leadership, as well as the adaptation of social psychological approaches and methods in leadership studies to the field of political science. His work has been published in leading journals such as The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Politics and Governance, Politics, Leadership, and the International Journal of Public Leadership. In 2023, he was appointed to the editorial boards of the latter two journals. Furthermore, since 2020, he has served as a board member of the Hungarian Political Science Association and the international Academic Network of Public and Political Leadership. Metz has taught courses at several institutions, including Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck, and Corvinus University of Budapest.
Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences
Moreno Frau is an Associate Professor at the Marketing Management Department, Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary). He holds a PhD in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Cagliari (Italy), where he graduated with honors and earned the additional title of Doctor Europaeus, following a research period at the BI Norwegian Business School. His research focuses on marketing, value formation, digital and sustainability transactions with a particular emphasis on the agri-food sector. He led a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship project called FooDization, which explores the role of digital data in promoting sustainable food production and consumption. His contributions to the field have been recognized with several best paper and reviewer awards. Dr. Frau’s work has been published in renowned journals such as the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, British Food Journal, and Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing.s
Institute of Global Studies
Özgün Sarımehmet Duman holds a BSc in Political Science (METU, Turkey), an MA in Comparative Politics (the University of York, UK) and PhD in Political Science (Ankara University, Turkey). She completed her post-doctoral research at the University of Sheffield (UK) under the Jean Monnet Scholarship of the European Commission. As a truly international scholar, she conducted research at National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), the University of East London (UK) and Hacettepe University (Turkey). She joined Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Global Studies, as an assistant professor in September 2023 and was promoted to associate professor in March 2024.
Dr. Sarımehmet Duman’s scholarly research mainly targeted the broad area of global political economy with a particular focus on state-market relations, neoliberalism, financialisation, the Eurozone crisis, labour market, social and employment policies, and privatisation. Findings of her research were published in high-impact journals with over 70 citations. Her monograph on labour market structures in Greece and Turkey published by Palgrave Macmillan IPE Series was later listed in the US Chronicle of Higher Education. Dr. Sarımehmet Duman’s current research concentrates on the Eurozone and the non-Eurozone peripheries of Europe, the political economy of public procurement policies and infrastructure failures, and the rise of neo-developmentalism in Turkey.
Institute of Economics
Adrienn Selei graduated in 2007 from Corvinus University of Budapest with a degree in Market Analysis and in 2009 from ELTE, with a degree in Psychology, specializing in Organizational, Work and Decision Psychology. She obtained her PhD degree in 2017 from Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of General and Quantitative Economics. She was a lecturer at ELTECON between 2011 and 2015, and joined the Institute of Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest in 2017. She teaches Microeconomics and Industrial Organization courses in Hungarian and English, mainly in the Economics and Finance Mathematical Analysis program and the Energy Economics postgraduate program. Since 2011, she has been working at the Regional Energy Economics Research Centre (REKK), where she has been involved in several national and international projects as a senior research fellow. Her main research interests include gas and electricity market modelling and the analysis of electricity regulatory markets.
Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences
Sofía De León Almaraz has worked in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Corvinus University since 2021. She holds a degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s in Administration, and a PhD in Process and Environmental Engineering from the University of Toulouse. Sofía teaches Operations Management, Strategic Problem Solving, and Energy Sustainability. She has more than 10 years of industrial experience, contributing to various sectors with a focus on product and process design, optimization, supply chain management, and continuous improvement.
Since 2011, Sofía has conducted research on the sustainable design of hydrogen supply chains. In 2013, her PhD results were selected by the University of Toulouse for presentation in the French National Debate on the Energy Transition, and in 2014, her thesis work was awarded the Leopold Escande Prize. From 2014 to 2016, Sofía worked as a postdoctoral researcher in France. In 2021, she worked as a CIAS researcher for a 10-month period. Her research emphasizes sustainability by integrating economic, environmental, and social criteria, and her findings have been published in reputable journals.
Sofía is currently the course leader for Operations Management at Corvinus. Her research interests include supply chain management, life cycle and sustainability assessment, and various cross-cutting issues related to the hydrogen economy. She is leading an OTKA project (2024-2028) and is involved in several international, multidisciplinary research projects. In February 2024, she was elected to the first European Hydrogen Sustainability and Circularity Panel of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, marking a major milestone in her career.
Institute of Finance
Árpád Szűcs graduated from Corvinus in the Finance Master program and has been working at Corvinus ever since. He obtained his PhD in 2016. His research topics include intraday forecasting of stock volumes, behavioral finance, market microstructure, financial liquidity and real options. He was the program director of the Fudan Corvinus Double Degree MBA program between 2020-2024 and has been the program director of Executive Programs since 2023. He was awarded the Corvinus medal in 2020. He has been the Finlab manager since the room exists.
Institute of Finance
Tamásné Vőneki Zsuzsanna started her career in financial risk management area at Hungarian Telekom, and in 2000 she became the leader of the newly established enterprise risk management department. Two years later she graduated with an MBA. Between 2008 and 2023 she headed the Operational Risk Department of OTP Group, the leader participant of Hungarian banking sector, operating in twelve countries. In 2019 she finished her PhD studies at Corvinus University of Budapest, and she is the head of Macro-Finance Department of the university since 2023. Her priority is the development of the university’s corporate relations. Her research areas are banking risk management, crisis management and ESG risks.
Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems
Tamás Titkos pursued his university and doctoral studies at Eötvös Loránd University, majoring in mathematics. Over the years, he has taught at Budapest Business School, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Eötvös Loránd University, and the University of Szeged. Since 2016, he has been a research fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, and since 2024, an associate professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. In 2018, he was awarded the Academy’s Youth Award and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship, and in 2021, he received the Alexits Prize from the Mathematics Division of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, an international mathematics journal, and Érintő, a popular science online journal.
His work is primarily related to the branch of mathematics known as functional analysis.
Institute of Social and Political Science, CIAS
Attila Varga earned his PhD at the University of Arizona School of Sociology (2020), and he was a postdoc at Indiana University CnetS (2020-2024). He studies the changing organization of academic research and scholarly communication. His particular focus are the structural consequences of the massification of research output, and the multifaceted ways and efficiency of academic commercialization. In line with these areas, he has developed metrics and indicators to analyse the innovation activities of individuals and firms, including continuous measures of research interest similarity and patent novelty. His work has been published, among other venues, in PNAS, PlosOne, and Scientometrics.
A Projekt 1 és a Projekt 2 tantárgy során az adatelemzési és a módszertani feladatokat a hallgatók csoportban végzik. A hallgató a Projekt 1 és 2 tantárgyak során sajátítja el a tudományos megnyilvánulás azon elemeit, amelyek használata a 3. fejezet sikeres megírásához elengedhetetlen.
Institute of Accounting and Law
Institute of Accounting and Law
Marianna Jánny is a seasoned professional with an MBA in Accounting and a certified accountant qualification. She has more than 17 years of practical experience in business advisory, management control, financial management, and process optimization for small to medium-sized companies.
Teaching for nearly a decade, she has delivered Accounting and Management Control courses at Corvinus University of Budapest.
Marianna Jánny is well-equipped to foster an inclusive classroom environment, providing students with a dynamic, global perspective on their learning journey. Her vision includes innovative approaches to education, promoting critical thinking and practical application for an enriched learning experience.
Institute of Accounting and Law
Kíra Martin is a dedicated lecturer and researcher in the field of accounting who is interested in furthering development of the profession through research that will help professionals in practice and students of the university had better understand the goals, the processes, the rules and the tools of accounting. Her conviction is that this can only be reached by cultivating the profession in practice, as well. Therefore, she has been present in the academic world and professional practice parallel from the beginning of her career. She finished her PhD in Management and Business Administration at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2013, at which’ predecessor she got her MSc degree in Accounting and Europe in 2003, as well. Since 2003, she has been a member of the Department of Managerial Accounting and later of the Department of Accounting in different positions. She is promoted to Professor of Practice II. from Assistant Professor now, which she looks at as next step on her way to being Associate Professor. Her teaching focus has been financial statement analysis, and managerial accounting not only on basic level, but has been course leader of the subjects advanced managerial accounting and strategic managerial accounting. She has been lecturer and course leader at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses, as well. Her fields of research and publications are brand value in accounting, financial statement analysis, transfer pricing, and companies’ book value. In her professional practice, she has been active as audit assistant, accounting advisor, and financial director.
Institute of Accounting and Law
Éva Mikáczó graduated from our university in 1990 with a degree in Accounting and Statistics Education, and since then, she has gained over three decades of experience in teaching and researching accounting. She has been actively involved in developing and teaching several undergraduate and master’s courses within the Department of Accounting, including Foundations of Accounting, Financial Accounting I-II, Managerial Accounting, and Accounting Organization. She is also dedicated to teaching the Presentation Skills course designed for finance and accounting students, which focuses on developing soft skills.
Throughout her teaching career, she consistently aims to make knowledge transfer both comprehensible and effective by using modern teaching methods. She supports the acquisition of practical knowledge through group assignments and case studies. Her work has been consistently rated as outstanding by both her colleagues and students. Her research focuses on the impact of innovative teaching methods on students’ attitudes in the learning process.
In addition to her university work, Éva also undertakes consulting roles in accounting and auditing, ensuring that her teaching remains closely connected to real-world practice.
She is actively involved in the Corvinus Teaching Excellence program as the institutional representative, where her primary role is to promote the sharing of best practices among educators.
Éva’s goal is to support her students not only in acquiring solid professional knowledge but also in developing critical thinking and communication skills.
Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences
Stanley Ward got his first degree in the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 1997, completing both his Bachelor’s in English and the military leadership program at the Virginia Tech Corp of Cadets. He then moved to Japan and during his eight years there worked as a teacher, and eventually rose to manage several branch offices of a global Japanese education company. During this time, he completed his Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics, and taught in two Japanese universities. He then moved to Hungary in 2005.
In Hungary, he has worked as a full-time lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University, and as a part-timer at the University of Vienna. He then joined Corvinus in 2007, and became a full-time lecturer in 2017. He currently does work for the Business and Management and full-time MBA. He primarily teaches English for Business, Business Communications and Intercultural Communication. He was recently elected to the Corvinus Senate, and serves as a member there.
He is also a Member of the Board of the Fulbright Association in Hungary.
A Projekt 1 és a Projekt 2 tantárgy során az adatelemzési és a módszertani feladatokat a hallgatók csoportban végzik. A hallgató a Projekt 1 és 2 tantárgyak során sajátítja el a tudományos megnyilvánulás azon elemeit, amelyek használata a 3. fejezet sikeres megírásához elengedhetetlen.
CIAS
Amitabh Anand is a Full Professor of Management, Organization & Entrepreneurship at Excelia Business School in La Rochelle, France. He has received several awards in research and teaching, including the
1) “Top 50 Worlds’ Best Professor” by Poets and Quants, USA (Only person from Europe in 2018 List)
2) “Best Reviewer Award” from Journal of Business Venturing (an Financial Times Top 50 Journal)
2) “Best Paper Proceedings Award” from HR Divison of Academy of Management Conference
3) “Best Reviewer Award” for three consecutive years from Academy of Management Conference, USA
4) “Best Reviewer Award” from Academy of International Business Conference
5) “Excellence in Peer Review Award,” from South Asian Journal of HRM
6) “Emerging Scholar Award”” from The Organization Studies Research Network” etc.
His research works have been published in the
1. Journal of Business Venturing (FT Top 50)
2. British Journal of Management (ABS 4*),
3. Industrial Marketing Management, (ABDC A*)
3. Journal of Business Research
4. Human Resource Management Review,
5. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research,
6. Asia Pacific Journal of Management,
7. Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Knowledge Management, etc.
He serves on the editorial boards at:
1) As a Co-Editor for International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (ABS 3*)
2) As an Co-Editor for Journal of Small Business & Enterprise Development (ABS 2*)
3) He was a Co-Guest Editor for ‘Information Systems Frontiers (ABS 3*)
4) Served as a lead guest editor at Small Business Economics Journal (ABS 3*)”
Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems, CIAS
Balázs Lengyel obtained his PhD in Economics from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and subsequently conducted research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Umeå University in Sweden, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work in regional economics and network science has gained international recognition. He is the author of more than forty articles in international journals. His main research areas include regional growth, urban inequalities, and the analysis of innovation and social networks. He was awarded the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Momentum (“Lendület”) Grant in 2017 and 2024. He leads the ANETI Lab, and works at the Department of Network Science, the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, and HUN-REN KRTK.
Institute of Sustainable Development
Mirjana Radovanović is from Serbia, she earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering, University of Novi Sad (2004). She started to work at the academia in 1999, as an assistant. From 2020 she is a full professor.
From the very beginning of her career, she has been interested in sustainable development – which was quite new 25 years ago. Her research is focused on unravelling the reliability of existing and developing new methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of certain measures and state policies in this sense. Since it is obvious that there are certain contradictions in this area, she dedicated herself even more to research in that direction, especially when it comes to the economics-energy-environmental nexus. In recent years, she has been working intensively on considering sustainable energy policies from the point of view of developing decision support tools. With the development of the new geopolitical reality, she moves on to a more detailed consideration of the relationship between energy sustainability and energy security. Her research is interdisciplinary, with high-quality collaboration with several co-authors; it includes qualitative and quantitative analysis as well as application of artificial intelligence methods.
Her professional goal is to continue with personal development, to exchange and transfer knowledge, and to make at least a small contribution to the creation of a world that will suit the citizens.
Her most precious achievement is her family.
In a professional sense,she has published 2 monographs by Oxford University Press, 36 scientific articles (most of them in Q1-grade journals), h-index = 23.
Institute of Finance, CIAS
Prof. Dr. Richard A. Werner, M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon) is a finance expert and development economist and Research Professor at Corvinus University, at CIAS and the Institute of Finance. He was educated at the London School of Economics, the University of Tokyo and the University of Oxford.
Prof. Werner has been full professor or chair in economics or finance at a number of universities since 2005, including Fudan University, Shanghai, Southampton University, England, and Goethe University, Frankfurt. He has also taught in Tokyo and Moscow. He has published widely in peer-reviewed finance and economics journals, being cited almost 5,000 times (h-index 27, i10-index 52).
He is an FCA-authorised asset manager and strategist. He was chief economist at Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd. in Tokyo, Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns Asset Management Ltd. in London and founding Senior Portfolio Manager of the Bear Stearns Global Alpha Fund. He has been visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan, senior consultant to the Asian Development Bank, first Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan and board member of a number of companies, including chairman of the audit committee of an LSE-listed international firm with more than 5,000 staff.
In 1995, Prof. Werner advanced a new monetary policy he called ‘Quantitative Easing’. His book Princes of the Yen (Quantumpublishers.com) was a No. 1 bestseller in Japan, ranking ahead of Harry Potter for six weeks. He warned of coming credit bubbles and banking crises, including the 2008 crisis. Professor Werner supports the establishment of local banks (www.arbe.org.uk).
His newsletter is at rwerner.substack.com. His research website is www.professorwerner.org
Institute of Finance, CIAS
Robert Faff (FASSA, 2021-24) is Research Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, Emeritus Professor at UQ and Honorary Adjunct Professor at Bond University. He has an international reputation in empirical finance research: 15 Australian Research Council grants (funding $4 million+); 360+ refereed journal publications – 46 x A* (ABDC); career citations 23,000+, with a h-index of 74 (Google Scholar). His particular passion is nurturing the career trajectories of early career researchers. Robert has supervised almost 50 PhD students to successful completion. Building on a 40-year+ academic career, his signature focus is “Pitching Research” [https://ssrn.com/abstract=2462059], with worldwide penetration signalled by: (a) > 25,000 SSRN downloads; (b) > 400 pitching talks/events; (c) at 37 Australian universities; (d) spanning 54 different countries. Further, he is the Founder & President of the InSPiR2eS research network [https://pitchingresearch.com/inspir2es-network/] and creator of the InSPiR2eS Centre for Responsible Science. In addition, Robert is current Editor-in-Chief of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal; formerly: Editor of Accounting and Finance (2002-2011).
Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences
Krisztina Demeter obtained her PhD in 2001 and DSc in 2016. She is a full professor and the Head of the Department of Supply Chain Management at CUB. She also has a part-time job at Bábes-Bolyai University in Romania. She teaches operations management and related areas. Her main fields of research are manufacturing strategy, lean management, digitalization, global operations and competitiveness. In MTMT she has 90 journal papers registered with over 1500 citations and an h- index of 18. She has won several prizes for her research. She has editorial duties in Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Operations Management Research and Vezetéstudomány/Budapest Management Review. She regularly publishes in prestigious foreign and domestic journals. She has several roles in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, including being a president of the Committee of Business Administration, secretary of the Doctoral Assessment Committee of Economics and Business and member of the Doctoral Committee. Currently she is working on her NextGeneration EU project aiming at supporting companies’ successful digitalization efforts.
A Projekt 1 és a Projekt 2 tantárgy során az adatelemzési és a módszertani feladatokat a hallgatók csoportban végzik. A hallgató a Projekt 1 és 2 tantárgyak során sajátítja el a tudományos megnyilvánulás azon elemeit, amelyek használata a 3. fejezet sikeres megírásához elengedhetetlen.
Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems
Antal Jakovac received his DSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. He is a scientific advisor at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics. He started his scientific career as an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2002. Previously, he worked as a financial quantitative analyst at Morgan Stanley Budapest and as a lecturer at ELTE. He has extensive experience in research and teaching in programming, AI and data science related fields. Antal Jakovac received his PhD degree in 1996. He has significant international scientific experience, having received postdoctoral fellowships at CERN, Uni Wuppertal, Germany and DESY, Hamburg.
Antal Jakovac has more than 20 years of experience as a university lecturer in AI development, programming (C++, Python, Perl, Pytorch, Mathematics, LaTeX), model building and related fields. He is familiar with innovative teaching and learning methods. The candidate has been a subject supervisor for four MSc students and three PhD students.
Antal Jakovac is a talented and excellent researcher. His research interests focus on artificial intelligence, data science, modelling and more recently on representational learning. He has an outstanding publication track record with a remarkable citation record: 61 publications in international scientific journals (most of them Q1/D1); 2 books, Springer Netherlands (2019, 2016). Other indicators: H-index 15 (MTMT), (Google Scholar: 39). 3 OTKA projects won as PI and 6 OTKA projects participated. He has joined MILAB through the Rényi Institute and has been awarded Magyary and Bolyai scholarships.
Institute of Sustainable Development
Gyula Zilahy is a full professor of business sustainability at the Department of Sustainability Management and Environmental Economics at the Institute of Sustainable Development.
Gyula Zilahy received his Ph.D. degree analyzing the management aspects of energy efficiency measures within corporations. His research interests include corporate environmental management, the implementation of the principles of cleaner production and circular economy in an industrial setting, sustainability communication and sustainable business models. He has received a Fulbright scholarship to study the role of universities in regional sustainability initiatives at the University of Tennessee. His practical experience includes work with SMEs as well as multinational corporations in the fields of Environmental Management Systems and sustainability reporting.
Gyula Zilahy has been teaching courses related to corporate social responsibility and climate change and acted as visiting professor at various universities such as St. Gallen University, Switzerland, ESADE, Spain and Los Andes University, Colombia. For four years, he acted as the Academic Director of the CEMS MIM program and as Vice Dean for research and international affairs.
His special interest bridging his academic and administrative positions is the promotion of responsible business education and the introduction of the principles of Sustainable Development in higher education.
Gyula Zilahy is a member of the President’s Committee of Sustainable Development of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Currently he also acts as the Vice President of the International Sustainable Development Research Society and he will chair the 31st Annual Conference of ISDRS at the Corvinus University of Budapest in July, 2025.
A Projekt 1 és a Projekt 2 tantárgy során az adatelemzési és a módszertani feladatokat a hallgatók csoportban végzik. A hallgató a Projekt 1 és 2 tantárgyak során sajátítja el a tudományos megnyilvánulás azon elemeit, amelyek használata a 3. fejezet sikeres megírásához elengedhetetlen.
Institute of Economics
László Csaba is a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Corvinus University of Budapest, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europea in London. He began his studies in economics at the then Marx Károly University of Economics in 1972, and in the more than half a century since then he has had a continuous relationship with Corvinus University (and its predecessors), becoming a leading figure in Hungarian and European economics. His extremely prolific career is marked by 13 monographs and 416 articles, with more than 1300 citations in MTMT. His writings have been published in 22 countries.
During his long career, he worked initially in research institutes (MTA World Economic Research Institute, then Kopint-Datorg), then at Corvinus University (and its predecessors), he taught at the Central European University and the University of Debrecen in the fields of economics of post-socialist transition, European integration, globalisation, development economics, institutional and comparative economics. Sixteen of his seventeen doctoral students have obtained PhD degrees, two of whom have already obtained the degree of Doctor of Sciences and are professors at Corvinus.
László Csaba is also active in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a leading member of the IX Department of the Academy of Sciences, former chairman of the Committee on Economics and currently chairman of the Committee on International and Development Studies of the Academy of Sciences, and chairman of the editorial board of the Economic Review.
In addition to his domestic activities, László Csaba has been a visiting professor at many distinguished universities – Bocconi, Freie Universitaet Berlin, University of Helsinki – and has been actively involved in the professional bodies of his research fields. He was Vice President and then for many years President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, and to this day he is a member of the editorial boards of several major international journals, including Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Communist Economies, and Intereconomics.
In addition to his academic work, László Csaba does a lot to make economics more understandable and accessible to a wider audience. His public activity contributes to the understanding of how the market economy works and what economic policy measures can help Hungary’s economic recovery.
Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems
Peter Medvedev is a prominent figure in financial mathematics and mathematical research. He is the author of numerous textbooks and papers and many books on mathematical economics. His publication number is more than 60.
Prof. Medvedev has lectured at Corvinus University of Budapest since 1993. During his career, he has been actively involved in the development and launching of new subjects, new specializations, and new courses. Thanks to his continuous subject development activities, he has always provided high-quality teaching in the courses offered to our university students. His dedication and commitment to the development and education of his students is exemplary. Many of his students have become successful professionals and researchers under his guidance. Under his supervision, five PhD students have defended their dissertations (two co-thesis). He has played a pioneering role in these areas. These areas would not be in the university’s teaching portfolio without his work today.
Prof. Medvedev has held several key positions at our university, such as Head of Department, Head of Institute, Senator, and Head of Doctoral Programmes. His work has contributed to the development of the University and the improvement of its teaching and research programmes. He has also been an exemplary community builder, contributing to the cohesion and strengthening of the university community. Generations of students at the University consider themselves his students, and they have learned from his professionalism, attention, and dedication to students. The professional and academic legacy built around his person is exceptional and inescapable. His achievements have been a credit to our university and an inspiration to current and future students and faculty.
Institute of Sustainable Development
József Tóth has been a part of the university community as a faculty member since 1985. His scientific work focuses on food economics. In 1997 he turned his interest to the study of prices along the food chain (price transmission). He carried out the analysis of market disturbances by further developing the Wolffram-Houck method, first for the Austrian pork and then for the Hungarian pork and milk markets. This was the first econometric price transmission study in the sector in Hungary.
He was the first to adapt the Operational Competitiveness Rating Analysis (OCRA) non-parametric method to the operational competitiveness of companies and industries. He has validated and verified the applicability of the method through studies published in peer-reviewed journals.
He was among the first to address the food economy characteristics of the open innovation paradigm. Most of his studies on innovation are based on his own empirical surveys. Of particular importance in this respect is the exploration of the behavioural motivations for innovation performance. Another major scientific achievement is the empirical analysis of the innovation achievements of the European food economy based on micro data and their international comparison.
In 2022, he won another 4-year OTKA grant in the area of climate change adaptation and circular economy, in the field of agroeconomics alone.
He defended his Doctoral Thesis of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (“Operational experiences of domestic food economy coordination spheres”) in 2024.
Since 2008, he has also been teaching at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, where he was also awarded the title of “Professor Emeritus” in autumn this year.