Tamas Rudas

Academic rank: 
Professor
Position: 
Recurrent Visiting Professor at CEU
Position: 
Head, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eotvos Lorand University
Position: 
Affiliate Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of Washington
Department of Political Science
Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations
Qualifications: 
Dr. rer. nat. (mathematics), Eötvös Loránd University
Candidate of Science (mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Academic/Professional Experience and Achievements: 

Tamas Rudas is Dr. rer. nat. (mathematics), Eötvös Loránd University; Candidate of Science (mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He completed his Habilitation (sociology), Eötvös Loránd University and holds a Széchenyi Professorship. He is also a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (sociology). Tamas Rudas has held visiting positions at Pennsylvania State University; University of Toledo; Educational Testing Service, Princeton; Center for Surveys, Methodology and Analysis, Mannheim; Fields Institute, Toronto; University of Graz; Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, Koeln; University of Erfurt; University of Ljubljana; and the University of Washington. His research interests are in multivariate statistics, analysis of categorical data, survey methodology, and applied statistics.

Recent important publications in Biometrika and Statistical Methodology.

Honours
- Erdei Prize of the Hungarian Sociological Association for the application of statistical methods in sociology, 1988
- Szechenyi Professorship, 2000-2003
- Chairman of the Board, TARKI Foundation, 2003-
- Vice President, European Association of Methodology, 2008-
- Affiliate Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of Washington, 2008-
- Golden Memorial Medal of the Eötvös Loránd University, 2009
- Chairman of the Advisory Board, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010-
- Faculty Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, 2010
- Elected Member of the European Academy of Sociology 2010-
- President, European Association of Methodology 2012-

 

 

Affiliations: 
Department of Political Science
Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations