Károly Takács

I am a sociologist interested in the theoretical, experimental, and empirical analysis of micro mechanisms of social networks in relation to problems of honest communication, cooperation, discrimination, social and political conflict.

I work as a Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University (LiU), Sweden, and Research Professor at the Computational Social Science Research Group, ELTE Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. I received my Master from the Corvinus University of Budapest, and my PhD from the University of Groningen / ICS (The Netherlands).

In the research project supported by the “Lendület” research excellence program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, I investigated the mechanisms and dynamics of negative social relations and networks in interrelation with competition. I founded and directed RECENS (now the CSS Research Group at the Centre for Social Sciences) in Budapest.

I have been awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2014 on gossip, reputation, and cooperation. My current research projects and interests cover discrimination and its implications in grading assessment, peer strategies for counteracting political radicalization, and the construction and analysis of population-scale multilayer exposure networks.