RENÁTA NÉMETH
CURRICULUM VITAE
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renata at tatk dot elte dot hu, nemethr.web.elte.hu,
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NATIONALITY
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Hungary |
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DATE OF CV |
2026. 06. 10. |
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, 2025-)
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 (2016-2026)
Responsible
for planning and organizing the program, organizing its communication and
recrutation
2025: 2025:
launch of the program
in English
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
Invited talk
Developing the launch of the MSc in Survey Statistics and Data Analytics in
English with Márton Rakovics, 2024
Professional management of a three-year comprehensive educational
development faculty project, ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences, within the
EFOP-3.4.3.-16-2016-00011 project titled “Expediting higher education
accessibility; developing a complex and sustainable environment to support
education; reinforcing innovative education at ELTE premises", 2017-2020.
Doctoral
students supervised: Anna Sebők (obtained degree in 2026, topic: higher education and labor market), 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), 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, Scientific Students'
Associations: Gábor Csomor (2020, title: A/B test in the public sector, 1. place in the Faculty Conference,
co-supervisor: Bori Simonovits), Viktória Bendő – Hanna Gáll (2021), Bernadett
Csala-Ferencz (2021, 2. place in the Faculty Conference)
Supervisor, University Research Fellowship (EKÖP): Jakab Buda (2024-25, 2025-26), Emese Tóth (2024-25), Zsófia Rakovics (2024-25), 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 “Comparative social research” and "Statistics Practical"
Sociology BA courses prepared together with co-instructors, E-learning course
development grant of the Eötvös Loránd University, 2023.
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. Rating of the final project report: 10 (excellent).
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):
2026-2027. Students’ Attitudes and Competencies in the Field of Artificial Intelligence – Development of an Assessment Tool with the Support of the ELTE Center for Digital PI: Dávid Simon
2024-. RAG-enhanced LLM –
AI-driven world of higher education..
Education development and research project, supported by the Faculty’s Incubator
Grant between 2025-26. PI: Miklós Szabó
2024-25:
Narratives in the public sphere: the discursive representation of the Russian-Ukrainian war, supported by the Incubator Grant of the ELTE Faculty of
Social Sciences. PI: Ildikó Barna
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,
2024/4, 2025/1, Special number on Text as data, guest editor.
Editor,
Hungarian Statistical Review, 2020-
Editor,
Statisztikai Szemle, 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 vice-chairman, 2023-25
Member of the Scientific Council of Eötvös Loránd University, delegated by the rector, 2025-
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
Member of Program Committee, workshop Identity-Aware AI 2026, , “Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware AI”, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 2026
Member of Program Committee for the workshop Identity-Aware AI 2025, 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, October 2025, Bologna, Italy.
Chair of 11th International Conference on Social Science Methodology of ISA RC33, Session "Text as data" , together with Ildikó Barna. Napoli, Italy, September 2025
Member of the Reveiwer Committee, 11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it 2025), Cagliari, Italy, September 2025
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
Scientific reviewer, National Research, Development and Innovation Office, 2025-
Hungarian
Accreditation Committee, assessor, 2024-
Member
of the sociological scientific review panel, National Research, Development and
Innovation Office, 2019., 2021-, Vice Chairman: 2022-
Vienna Science
and Technology Fund (WWTF), invited referee in the in
the field of Information and Communication Technology (2024)
Member
of the expert panel, Social Sciences College of the János Bolyai Research
Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2022-
Reviewer for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature), Nature Human Behaviour, Government and
Opposition (Cambridge University Press), Scientific Reports (Nature), 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),
Discover Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Digital Humanities (Springer Nature),
European Journal of Mental Health, Social Sciences and Humanities Open, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Education, 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 field 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 (2026, Sercan Kiyak, KU Leuven, Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences, 2024, Ákos Szigeti, National University of Public Service,
Budapest, Doctoral School of Police Sciences and Law Enforcement, 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
Programming large language models: HUN-REN, 9
January 2025, Budapest.
Pedagogical trainings for university teaching staff (Eötvös Loránd University) : project-based teaching, interactive seminars, improving
through evaluation,use of ICT-tools in teaching, Prompting, AI for image
generation
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