prof. Dr. Tamás Sebestyén

Tamás Sebestyén earned a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, in 2011. He has been employed by the School since 2007 in different positions. In 2022 he was appointed as a full professor of economics. He teaches economics-related subjects (international economics, macroeconomics, economic modeling) at the bachelor, master, and doctoral programs of the School. His main research interest is economic modeling: in addition to mainstream approaches, his particular focus is on border areas such as network theory and agent-based modeling. He is actively publishing in these areas in leading Hungarian and international journals while participating in several national and international research projects aiming at regional economic impact analysis and global production networks. He has been leading the EconNet research team since 2017, which focuses on the analysis of economic networks. He translates the toolkit developed in the area of economic modeling to applied projects in the field of impact analysis, monitoring, and evaluation. He has been actively involved in the management team of the School as research director since 2017 and has been leading the Department of Economics and Econometrics since 2023.