RENÁTA NÉMETH
CURRICULUM VITAE
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E-MAIL/WEB PAGE |
nemethr at tatk dot elte dot hu, nemethr.web.elte.hu, rc2s2.eu |
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NATIONALITY / COUNTRY OF RESIDENT |
Hungary |
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DATE OF CV |
12.29.2023. |
EDUCATION
Degrees
2014 Habilitation in Sociology, Eötvös Loránd
University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Budapest. Habilitation thesis: Causal
inference in empirical sociological research. Thesis (Hung.), habilitation
talk (Hung.), scientific
talk.
2009 PhD (summa cum laude) in Sociology, Social science application of graphical models on mobility data,
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
2002 MSc. in Applied Mathematics Design-based variance
estimation (Hung.), Eötvös Loránd University
2001 MA. in Sociology, Respondent Selection within the
Household (Hung.), Eötvös Loránd University
Other university studies
1993-1996 Hungarian literature and grammar/Theoretical
linguistics. Eötvös Loránd University.
Interests: logics, formal languages, contemporary
Hungarian literature
Appointments
Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös
Loránd University (2009-)
professor (2022-)
director
of the institute of empirical studies (2020-2023)
vice
dean for general and strategic affairs (2015-2018)
Responsibilities: shaping the Faculty’s strategy in
communication, recrutation, proposal activity and quality assurance in an
evidence-based approach, strengthening the connections with the labor market,
project management.
head
of department of statistics (2017-)
associate
professor with habilitation (2015-)
Responsibilities: courses in social science
methodology, data analysis, biostatistics, mathematical statistics and
probability theory
head
of the mcs program in survey statistics and data analytics (2016-)
Responsible for planning and organizing the program,
organizing its communication and recrutation
2019: new name (Survey
statistics and data analytics MSc) as the final step of a two-year process of
curriculum reform. A shift from surveys towards data science. (Previous name:
survey statistics)
2017: 80 applicants (61 as first choice). The program
is the 7th most popular among the 117 master programs of our
university.
Senior statistician
Dept. of Health
Monitoring & Epidemiology of Non-communicable Diseases, Hungarian National
Center for Epidemiology, 2002–2009
Main activities
and responsibilities: Management of planning and analysis of national health
interview surveys; sociological participation in health sociology projects;
statistical participation in other epidemiological researches
Adjunct
Department of
Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, 2003-2009
Responsibilities
:Courses in methodology
Survey statistician
Dept. of Health
Monitoring & Epidemiology of Non-communicable Diseases, Hungarian National
Center for Epidemiology, 2001–2002
Main activities and
responsibilities: Statistical participation in national health interview
surveys
Survey statistician
Health
Statistics Unit, Hungarian Health Promotion Institute, 2000–2001
Main activities and
responsibilities: Statistical participation in national health interview
surveys
Teaching
experience
Whole-semester courses
Basics of mathematics, Probability Theory practical,
Mathematical Statistics practical, Multivariate Statistics practical, Sampling,
Public Policy and Statistics: Survey
statistics MSc Program
Basics of statistics, Statistical methods for health
data analysis: Health policy, planning
and financing MA Program
Statistical methods in the analysis of health data. Training program in Drug policy, planning
and financing.
Quantitative Methodology: Social Policy PhD Program
Introductory methodology, Sociology PhD Program
Social Statistics, Sociology
BA and International Studies BA
Applications of statistics, co-lecturer, 2006
Multilevel analysis, co-lecturer, 2005
Mathematical Statistics, practical, 1996–2003
Courses in
English
Erasmus+ teaching mobility, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, May 2023
Courses in Methodology
- Sociology PhD program, ELTE.
Courses in Statistics
and Biostatistics - Health Policy, Planning and Financing MA program, ELTE.
Biostatistics for HTA
implementation in CEE countries. Winter University Short Course, colecturer,
ELTE, Budapest, 2015, January 19-23.
Measurement and Modelling of Association in
Multiway Contingency Tables, PC Sessions. Spring Seminar, Zentralarchiv
für Empirische Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln. Cologne, Germany, March
24-28. 2003.
Other
Teaching Activities
Regular member of the Doctoral School of Sociology, ELTE, 2023-
Doctoral students supervised: Annamária Tátrai (obtained degree in 2022, topic: small area
estimation of deprivation indicators), Eszter Katona (50%, obtained degree in 2023, topic: text
analytics in corruption research), Sebők Anna (50%, completed course requirement, topic: the changed
function of higher education), Zsófia Rakovics (50%, present student, topic: Sociological study of language change and polarization), Jakab Buda (present student, topic: applications of explainable machine learning in sociology), Tímea Emese Tóth (50%, present student, topic: Analysing the discourse of sustainability in the triad of political publicity, online media platforms and the lay public)
Supervisor, New National Excellence Program
(ÚNKP): Jakab Buda (doctoral program, 2023-24), Emese Tóth (doctoral program, 2022-23, 2023-24), Eszter Katona (doctoral program, 2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-2019),
Annamária Tátrai (doctoral program, 2019-2020), Fanni Máté (doctoral program,
2019-2020), Gábor Csomor (master program, 2019-2020, co-supervisor: Bori
Simonovits ), Bernadett Csala-Ferencz (master program, 2020-2021)
Successful grant application with the course material of “Data Analysis I.” MSc course prepared together with Blanka Szeitl, E-learning course development grant of the Eötvös Loránd University, 2022.
Successful
grant application with ’Research skill development’, Research grant
NTP-HHTDK-19 for supporting Scientific Students' Associations, 2019
Institute Executive, Scientific Students'
Associations, 2016-
Successful grant application with the course material of “Multivariate
probability theory and statistics” MSc course prepared together with Márton
Rakovics, E-learning course development grant of the Eötvös Loránd University, 2019.
Organization of student competitions: Hackathon with civil organizations’ data (2023), Competition in Text analysis
(2020), Hackathon with civil organizations’ data (2018), National Student
Competition in Survey Statistics (2014).
Course at Angelusz Róbert Social Science
College of Excellence, 2014.
Construction a homepage as a guide to
loglinear modeling in SPSS and graphical modeling in R, with thousands of
visitors per year, 2012
Year-by-year promotion
of MSc in Survey Statistics, 2009-
Participation in
creating the curriculum of MSc in Survey Statitsics, 2007-2008
Research
management experience
Principal
Investigator: 2020-2023: NKFIH "OTKA" - K20, Research on the Layers of Political
Public Spheres in Hungary (2001-2020) - Sociological Analysis of Official,
Media and Lay Online Public Spheres using Automated Text Analysis and Critical
Discourse Analysis
2018-2021: Text
analytics research supported by the ELTE Higher Education Institutional
Excellence Program, as co-leader of the ELTE Research Center for Computational
Social Science working group.
János Bolyai Research
Fellowship, 2012-2015, Causal Inference in Social Science Research – Methodological
Strategies. The research was rated "Outstanding".
Research
participant (selected, key research):
2023-25:
Representations of Migration in a Transforming Europe, supported by the CELSA Research Fund, as senior researcher,
PI: Leen d'Haenens (KU Leuven) and Ildikó Barna (ELTE)
2022, 2023-24. Mapping and
optimisation of online depression forums, supported by the Social Innovation
National Laboratory, as senior researcher, PI: Domonkos Sik.
2018-2020. Text analytics and social media research.
Hungarian Research Fund (NKFI-12899), as senior researcher, PI: Zoltán Kmetty
2016-2019. Migration - approaching the reality with
innovative methodology. As senior researcher, PI: Ágnes Hárs (Kopint).
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2012-2015 Structural effects in cross-classified
data. As senior researcher, PI: Tamás Rudas. Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
(OTKA), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2011-2012. Statistical methods for public policy
decisions. Research leader: Tamás Rudas. A sub-project of the „For Knowledge on
an European Scale, ELTE” project, supported by the European Union and
co-financed by the European Social Fund
2011-2012. Hungarian households’ out-of-pocket health
payment based on survey data from ELEF2009, with Éva Orosz.
2009. Inequalities in need-adjusted health care
utilization in Hungary. A research of the HealthMonitor Nonprofit Public
Benefit Ltd., commissioned by the Health Insurance Supervisory Authority.
Research leader: József Vitrai
2008. Health Survey in Roma settlements in Valjevo,
Serbia. Commissioned by the Roma Center for Democracy
2006-2007. Social mobility during the changes in
Hungary, based on survey data from ISSP and the Hungarian Central Statistics
Office, with Péter Róbert and Tamás Rudas.
2007. Inequalities in health system responsiveness.
An international project with HealthMonitor Non-Profit Ltd, commissioned by the
WHO/Euro.
2007-2009. Health of the inhabitants of Roma
settlements in Hungary, commissioned by School of Public Health, University of
Debrecen
2002-2005. Methodological management of planning,
conducting and analyzing the Hungarian National Health Interview Survey 2003
(dissemination with contributions of the Institute of Sociology, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis
University, the School of Public Health, University of Debrecen and the GKI-EKI
HealthCare Research Institute Ltd.)
2003-2004 Methodological planning of World Health
Survey in Hungary, a project with the participation of 70 countries, conducted
by the WHO
2002-2004. Equity in the delivery of health care, as a
member of the OECD Health Equity Research Group.
2002-2004. Health-related quality of life, education,
age and gender international research, as a member of the Euroqol Group.
2000-2002 Participation in planning and conducting
the Hungarian National Health Interview Survey 2000, methodological management
of the data analysis
Scientific
public life
Editorial work
Intersections, 2024, Special number on
Text as data, guest editor.
Editor, Statisztikai
Szemle, Hungarian Statistical Review, 2020-
Member of the
Scientific Council, Econometrics Econometrics. Advences in Applied Data
Analysis (published by De Gruyter, Sciendo), 2021-
Hungarian Review of Sociology, 2013, Special number on
Quantitative methods, guest editor.
Memberships of
professional organizations
Elected member,
Sociological Scientific Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2021-2023, 2023-25
Elected member of the board,
Institute of Scientific Computing, 2023-25
Elected member of the board,
Hungarian Sociological Association, 2021-2024
Member: European
Sociological Association (RN21 Quantitative Methods Research Network),
International Sociological Association (RC33 Research Committee on Logic and
Methodology), Clinical Biostatistics Association, Public Body of Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
Conference organization
Organization of
"Methodically" discussion series in sociological methodology with
Judit Gárdos and Béla Janky. Joint program of Budapest University of Technology
and Economics –The Center for Social Sciences – Eötvös Loránd University.
2016-ongoing.
'Code of ethics of the Hungarian sociology' workshop, member of the organizing committee and moderator team of the workshop. 'Sociological knowledge and the common good' - Annual conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, University of Miskolc, October 2022.
'Sociological knowledge and the common good' - annual conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, 'Quantitative methodological innovations' section, section chair. University of Miskolc, October 2022.
Text.Machine.Society. workshop, co-leader of the program committee, ELTE Research Center for Computational Social Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, September, 2022.
Program Committee
Member, Computational Social Science and Social Media track, 8th Italian
Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it 2021)
‘Natural Language
Processing: a New Tool in the Methodological Tool-Box of Sociology’,
Co-organizer and co-chair of the session at the The International Conference on
Social Science Methodology, annual conference of the RC33 committee of the
International Sociological Association, September 2020
‘Innovative methods in
sociological research: opportunities and limitations of natural language
processing’, Co-organizer and co-chair of the session at the conference of
‘Sociology at the beginning of a successful century?’, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Center for Social Sciences, June 2020.
An international Workshop on the concept of quality
for big data, co-leader of the program committee, ELTE Faculty of Social
Sciences, February 2020.
Workshop on the New paths in sociological
research (Results of
the Institutional Excellence
Program for the Higher Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences),
co-leader of the program committee, ELTE, October 2019.
23rd Young
Staticticians Meeting international student conference, Head of the Program
Committee, 2018 October, Balatonfüred, Hungary.
XI. Conference on
Biometrics, member of the program committee, section chair. Budapest, Hungary,
2017.
Young
Statisticians Meetings series (participating countries are Austria,
Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia. Member of the organization comitee from
2016.
Participation in the seminars of Peripato Social
Dynamics Research Group, 2010-
Organizaton of a Conference in quantitative methods,
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2013. Co-organizers: Hungarian Review of
Sociology, Fényes Elek Assocation and the Social statistics Committee of the
Hungarian Sociological Association.
Organization
of National Conference in Health Statistics, 2001, 2002, Budapest.
Reviewer/referee
Member of the
sociological scientific review panel, National Research, Development and Innovation
Office, 2019., 2021-, Vice Chairman: 2022-
Member of the expert panel, Social Sciences College of the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2022-
Reviewer for European Sociological Review (Oxford University Press), Quality and Quantity (Springer), Social Science and Medicine – Population Health (Elsevier), Social Indicators
Research (Springer), Language Resources and Evaluation (Springer), International Journal of Digital Humanities (Springer
Nature), European Journal of
Mental Health, Intersections - East European Journal of Society and Politics,
Közgazdasági Szemle, Replika, Socio.hu, Szociológiai Szemle, Esély,
Politikatudományi Szemle, Fogyatékosság és Társadalom
Austrian Academy of Sciences, invited referee in the
filed of Digital Social Science (2021)
Member of the Selection Committee, University of
Barcelona, Serra Húnter Program, 2019-2020.
Slovenian Research Agency, Reviewer of proposals
(2014-), Member of the expert panel (2020-)
Referee for the Hungarian National Scientific Research
Fund, 2013-
Opponent for doctoral thesis (2019, Pál Susánszky,
Sociology Doctoral School, Eötvös Loránd University, 2018, Judit Gárdos,
University of Pécs, Literary Doctoral School, Cultural Studies Doctoral
Program, 2011, József Vitrai, University of Pécs, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Health Science PhD Program)
Reviewer in habilitation process (2017, Tamás Bartus,
Corvinus University Budapest)
Member of the jury , National Conference of Scientific
Students' Associations, Sociology Section,
2013, 2015
Reviewer of papers written to the sociological section
of the Conference of Scientific Students' Associations, Corvinus University of
Budapest (2013)
2012. Reviewer for the Annual Book of the Sociology
PhD Program of Eötvös Loránd University
2003, 2007. Opponent for master theses in applied
statistics, University of Debrecen, Medical - and Health Science Center Faculty
2004, 2005. Reviewer for the Annual Reports of the
National Drug Focal Point
2002. Reviewer of the research report Elekes – Paksi:
Adult drug use and alcohol consumption in Hungary
Medal of the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2018, for the
3-year work as Vice Dean. (As the 8th person to be awarded in the history of
the faculty. The Faculty Medal honors a career defined by extraordinary work
for the faculty.)
2015. Bolyai Certificate of Merit by the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences. Achievement: outstanding research
Young Biostatistician of the Year, 2009. Award of the
Hungarian Society for Clinical Biostatistics
Best paper
Awarded second place in the Publication Competition of
the Hungarian National Association of Doctoral Students, 2003. Category: Social
Sciences. Prize-winning paper: Németh, R., Rudas, T. : Sample selection with the Kish grid. Statisztikai Szemle, 80,
309-327. (Hung.)
Research
visits
National Center for Health Statistics, Washington,
USA, October 2000
Courses
Pedagogical trainings for university teaching staff (Eötvös
Loránd University) : project-based teaching, interactive seminars, improving
through evaluation,use of ICT-tools in teaching
Statistical issues in
drug development, 2016, 14-15 October, Budapest, presenter: Stephen Senn,
organizer: International Society for Clinical Biostatistics.
The Statistics of
Causal Inference, Budapest, CEU, 2016, ECPR Summer School, one-week course.
Longitudinal Models
for Discrete Data. International Society for Clinical Biostatistics course.
Budapest, Hungary, 2012.
Structural Equation
Modeling. ZA Spring Seminar, University of Cologne, Germany, 2012.
The European Community
Household Panel. EPUNet Training Course, Economic and Social Institute, Dublin,
Ireland, 2004.
Multilevel Analysis. ZA Spring Seminar, University of
Cologne, Germany, 2004
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
and Collection. University of Essex, England, 2003. Courses: Survey Sampling,
Survey Non-response and Weighting, Latent Class Analysis with Applications to
Market Segmentation, Logit, Probit, and other Generalized Linear Models
Statistical Methods for Ordered Categorical Data
(organized by MPS Research Unit, University of Reading),. Budapest, 2002
Planning and Statistical Analysis of Epidemiological
Studies. International Society for Clinical Biostatistics course. Nectiny,
Czech Republic, 2000
English
(advanced level)
German (written doctoral translation exam, oral
elementary level)
SPSS, Stata advanced level, Python and R user level
Mathematical software packages basic level
(Mathematica, Matlab, Maple), Pascal and html-programming: basic level