Andrea Petróczi is a Research Professor at Kingston University London (UK). She is also a guest professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) and external faculty member at ’Foro Italico’ University of Rome (Italy). Andrea is an internationally recognised expert in anti-doping research, with background in psychology, management & marketing and journalism. She obtained her first PhD from the University of Northern Colorado (USA) in Sport and Exercise Science: Sport Administration, with a doctoral minor in Research Methods and Applied Statistics in 2002, and her second PhD in psychology from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2015. Andrea research is centred on behavioural choices with public health implications. With a strong commitment to multidisciplinary research spanning across disciplines allied to medicine and psychology, her research has attracted funding from a wide range of sources, including the World Anti-Doping Agency, the National Prevention Research Initiative/Medical Research Council, The British Academy, the International Olympic Committee and the European Council.
Andrea’s areas of specialism are social and cognitive psychology, research designs, survey methodology, mixed method design, quantitative data analysis and statistics.
Hungarian (native), English (native proficiency)
Anna earned her Ph.D. at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Doctoral School of Food Sciences and she is a research associate at the Department of Science Policy and Scientometrics at the Library and Information Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2018. The main area of her research activity is related to health science and bibliometric studies. She participates in several national and international research projects and she is a member of the „Structure and taxonomy of science” international research group. She is the technical editor of the Journal of Adult Learning, Knowledge, and Innovation.
Hungarian (native), English, German
Dr. Sándor Soós is a senior researcher in scientometrics and science studies. He’s the head of the Department of Science Policy and Scientometrics at the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He earned his PhD in cognitive science, on the subject of the mathematical modeling of the cognitive structure of scientific discourses, and has been a researcher in the field of science modelling and scientometrics for ten years. He has given numerous invited talks in the topic of scientometrics and research evaluation, both at national and international level, and actively collaborates with national actors in science and technol policy.
Hungarian (native), English, Russian
He contributed, as institutional principal investigator, to various national and international large-scale research projects in S&T policy:
Full time university professor (2010-), Jean Monnet Chair (2019-), and head of department “Food Economics”, head of doctoral school “Economics and management” at Szent István Univeristy. More than three decades’ experience in organization and management of international research teams, focusing on development policy in post-soviet region, West Balkan and Africa. Former vice-head of International Relations of Faculty of Food Science and Technology, former head of governing council of “János Irinyi” R&D fund at Hungarian Office of Innovation. He is author of more than 20 books and more than 280 publications in peer reviewed journals, with > 103 citations. H index:12.
Hungarian (native), English, German, French, Russian (working languages), Spanish, Italian (advanced), Arabic (elementary)