Dr. Katalin Erdős

Katalin Erdős graduated from the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2005 and from Fernunivesität in Hagen in 2006 with a MSc in economics. Between 2006 and 2009 she was a PhD student at the Faculty's Doctoral School of Regional Politics and Economics, and in 2006-2007 she worked as a research assistant at the Faculty's Centre for Regional Education, Development and Consulting. She has been an assistant lecturer at the Faculty since 2009 and an assistant professor since in 2014 when she obtained her PhD. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre (RIERC) since 2016. His teaching activities in the Faculty's Hungarian and English-language bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes focus on subjects related to environmental economics, natural resource economics, sustainability and innovation. Her main research focus is on the role of universities in regional development, which has recently been complemented by directions such as the role of higher education institutions in the green transition and in addressing societal challenges.