prof. Dr. Tamás Sebestyén

Tamás Sebestyén received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Pécs in 2011. Since 2007, he has worked continuously as a lecturer and researcher at the School, and he was appointed full professor in 2022. 
He teaches economics courses (international economics, macroeconomics, and economic modeling) in both Hungarian and English in the faculty's bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs. 
His main research interest is economic modeling. Along the mainstream side, he focuses particularly on developing subfields such as network- and agent-based models and integrating them with standard economic models. He has published his research results in leading national and international journals and has participated in several national and international research projects, both as a member and as a principal investigator, in the fields of regional economic impact analysis and global production networks. 
Since 2017, he has led the EconNet research group, focusing on economic network analysis. The methodological tools he developed for economic modeling have been applied to several projects involving economic impact analysis, monitoring, and evaluation. In 2024, his work in economic modeling was recognized with the Béla Krekó Award. 
Since 2017, he has contributed to the management of the faculty as Director of Research and, since 2023, as Head of the Department of Economics and Econometrics.