- Board Member
János Kertész (Dr. rer. nat. Eötvös University, 1980; DSc 1989). He was postdoc at the University of Cologne, at TU Munich and researcher at the Institute of Technical Physics in Budapest. Since 1991 he has been professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and since 2012 at the Central European University (CEU). At CEU he is director of the PhD Program in Network Science, the first of this kind in Europe. His main interest is in interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics and in computational social science. He is elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been decorated by several recognitions including “Finland Distinguished Professorship” and “Szechenyi Prize” of the Hungarian State.