Ildikó Barna is a sociologist. She is a Professor at ELTE University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Research Methodology, Budapest. Her research topics include antisemitism, memory politics, post-Holocaust studies, and quantitative research on archival sources. In recent years, her interest has turned to automated text analytics, applying natural [...]

Renáta Németh, PhD, is a professor and Head of Statistics Department at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics and an MA and a PhD in Sociology. She is also the director of the Survey Statistics and Data Analytics MSc Program. Her research [...]

Jakab Buda graduated in Survey Statistics and Data Analytics MSC at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences in 2020. He wrote his thesis on recurrent neural network based language models and their application in text classification with the supervision of Márton Rakovics. As a freelance data scientist he participates [...]

Márton Gosztonyi is a sociologist and anthropologist. He obtained his PhD in 2016 at Corvinus University of Budapest. He works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at ELTE, where he teaches statistics and multivariate analysis in both Hungarian and English. His research focuses on the informal [...]

Eszter Katona, survey statistician, started her PhD studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of ELTE in 2018 and works as an assistant lecturer at the Department for Social Research Methodology. Her supervisors are Renáta Németh (ELTE, RC2S2) and Mihály Fazekas (CEU). Her PhD research focuses on the possibilities of [...]

Árpád Knap is a survey statistician who started his PhD in September 2018 at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Social Sciences. His supervisor is Ildikó Barna, PhD. Mr Knap has been working at the Department of Social Research Methodology on several projects with Ildikó Barna in the past three years. [...]

Márton Rakovics, statistician, is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE University, PhD student at Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University Budapest. His doctoral research is about dynamic simulation modeling of social networks. He is currently focusing on the possible applications of deep learning [...]

Zsófia Rakovics, statistician and sociologist. During her university studies she conducted a research on precarity, globalization and its effect on society and work. She also took part in other sociological investigations (e.g. about gender inequality), and studied the remembrance of the Holocaust, by qualitatively analysing testimonies of survivors. Her methodological [...]

Tímea Emese Tóth is a survey statistician. She is currently a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Social Research Program at the Faculty of Social Sciences of ELTE, and she is also an assistant lecturer at the Methodology Department of Social Research from the academic year 2021/22. She conducted her thesis [...]

Dorina Vajda holds master’s degrees in Survey Statistics, and Sociology and Social Anthropology. Currently, she is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, and she is working as a public opinion researcher. Her primary theoretical research interest lies in labor studies. [...]

Domonkos Sik is an associate professor of Sociology at the ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, where he has been a faculty member for the last five years. His research deals with various topics in critical theory including phenomenology of mental disorders and the transformation of political culture in the post-transition period. [...]

Borbála Klacsmann is a Holocaust historian. Her areas of expertise include the microhistory of the Hungarian Holocaust and the restitution and compensation of Holocaust survivors. She completed her doctoral studies at the Department of History at the University of Szeged in 2021. Previously she had worked for the Holocaust Memorial Center [...]

Haseeb Raza is a student at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Informatics, with a strong academic focus on data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He is currently working as an intern at the ELTE Research Centre for Computational Social Science during the 2025/26 academic year, where he is [...]

Anna Unger received her degrees (political scientist - 2003, PhD in Political Science - 2018) from the Faculy of Law, ELTE. Her main research interests are democracy as a theory and a method, with a special focus on direct democracy, the politics of elections, and American politics. Her ongoing research [...]