Dr. Gyöngyi Bugár

Gyöngyi Bugár graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1988 with an MSc in Mathematics and Physics, and in 1993 from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs with an MSc in Economics and Business. In 1996, she received her Dr Univ title, followed by a PhD at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs in 2001, and a habilitation in 2011.  In 2002, she has been appointed as an associate professor at the Faculty, and as of 1 July 2023, she is the head of the Department of Management Science. Her teaching activities include undergraduate, master's and doctoral programmes both in Hungarian and English, where she teaches courses in business mathematics, quantitative methods, optimum calculus and research methodology. Her main research interests cover quantitative risk management and international portfolio diversification. She has received several awards for her research, among them she has won the prestigious Bolyai Fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences twice and the Best Paper Award four times at various international conferences.