Academic promotions: Corvinus community welcomes new Full Professors
Congratulations to our appointed colleagues, whose professional profiles can be read in the article below.
It has long been a tradition at Corvinus to regularly celebrate the academic advancement of our colleagues: welcoming new lecturers, researchers, and the university’s new Professors Emeriti. Since last November, we have been doing this in a new format: the certificates are presented at the monthly Senate meetings, allowing the university leadership to offer their personal congratulations directly after the appointment.
On the most recent occasion, we had the opportunity to celebrate many of our colleagues: newly appointed Associate Professors or Senior Research Fellows (read about them here), as well as Assistant Professors and Assistant Lecturers (read about them here). The colleagues below received their appointment certificates as Full Professors or Research Professors at the Senate meeting on October 20.
Asefeh Asemi – Full Professor (Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems
She joined Corvinus in 2021, and her research areas include AI-based decision support systems, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS), and human-AI interactions. She holds two PhD degrees: she earned her first doctoral degree in 2007 from Pune University, India, focusing on the impact of IT on medical information centers, and her second PhD in 2023 from Corvinus, where she researched intelligent investment recommender systems. Prior to this, she worked as a professor and head of department at the University of Isfahan, where she played a pioneering role in launching the first virtual master’s program, and she also served as a visiting scholar in Malaysia and New Zealand. Her work is characterized by over 160 scientific publications, Q1/D1 journal articles, and participation in international and domestic research projects (such as HU-RIZONT, TKP, and GINOP). She has been recognized with the Corvinus Research Excellence Award for four consecutive years (2021–2024).
Katalin Ásványi – Full Professor (Institute of Sustainable Development)
She holds a university degree and a PhD from Corvinus University of Budapest, where she also completed her habilitation in 2024. She has been teaching at Corvinus since 2008 and has served as Head of the Department of Sustainability Management and Environmental Economics since 2022 and as Dean for Sustainability since January 2025. Her research focuses on corporate sustainability and social responsibility (CSR), sustainability education, responsible consumption and sustainable tourism. She has authored numerous national and international academic publications, books and book chapters, and has led and contributed to several research projects. She plays an important role in developing sustainability-related education at Corvinus, including serving as ex-programme director for postgraduate ESG programmes and teaching in the CEMS programme. She is also active in the international academic community and has chaired the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) since 2024. Her teaching and research achievements have received numerous awards, including the Corvinus Gold Medal, Teacher of the Year Award, Corvinus Research Excellence Awards and international awards for sustainability education (CEEMAN, PRME, QS).
Róbert Iván Gál – Research Professor (Institute of Social and Political Sciences)
He earned his degree in Economics at the predecessor of Corvinus and his PhD in Sociology at the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. He serves as head of research center at the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies (CIAS), lecturer at the Department of Sociology and is a senior research fellow at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office’s Demographic Research Institute (KSH KKI). His articles have been published in journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy, Population Studies, and—as a member of the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) Network—Population and Development Review and Science. He has frequently been invited as a consultant by the United Nations Population Division, the United Nations Population Fund, the European Commission (within the ASISP and ESPN networks), and the International Labour Organization. He is a senior member of the NTA Network, a global research community comprising representatives from over 90 countries. He participated in the development of the NTA methodology, led the Indicators Working Group for several years, and currently serves as the European representative on the NTA Network Executive Council. He has also been repeatedly invited as a visiting professor to the University of Southern Denmark (Odense) and Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo).
Hubert János Kiss — Full Professor (Institute of Economics)
He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Alicante in Spain in 2009 and obtained his habilitation from Eötvös Loránd University in 2019. His research focuses primarily on behavioral and experimental economics, with particular emphasis on bank runs, financial decision-making, and the impact of preferences and personality traits on economic behavior. His work has been published in several leading international journals, including the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Banking & Finance. He has played a key role in the development of behavioral economics research in Hungary and in the establishment of the Budapest Experimental and Behavioral Economics (BEBE) research group. He has successfully led a number of competitive research projects, and his achievements have been recognized with several prestigious distinctions, including the János Bolyai Research Scholarship and the ELTE Promising Researcher Award. At Corvinus University, he has developed and coordinated numerous courses in behavioral economics and serves as course leader for several of them.
Alexandra Köves – Full Professor (Institute of Operations and Decisions Sciences)
Alexandra Köves received her PhD from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2015 and completed her habilitation in 2023. She is also the Head of the Research Centre for Ecological Economics at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies. Her research focuses on ecological economics, sustainability transitions, post-growth economic models, and participatory futures studies. Her work has appeared in journals including Futures, Ecological Economics, and the Journal of Cleaner Production. In 2025, she also contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. Her achievements have been recognised through several awards, including the 2017 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. Her teaching contributions include developing sustainability-related courses and creating original educational materials in decision theory.
Richárd Szántó – Full Professor (Institute of Operations and Decisions Sciences)
He graduated from the Corvinus University of Budapest, where he later earned his PhD in 2009 and habilitated in 2022. He conducts high-level teaching and research in the field of decision sciences; his research focuses on behavioral and intuitive decision-making, decision theory, and incentive mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on nudge techniques. He has published his scientific results in renowned domestic and international journals, including the Journal of Decision Systems, PLOS ONE, and the Journal of Risk Research. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards: his outstanding teaching performance was recognized with the ‘Teacher of the Year’ award in 2009, and his research achievements earned him the ‘Young Researcher of the Year’ award in 2011; additionally, he was a member of the Decision Theory Educational Workshop, which was honored as the ‘Teaching Community of the Year’ in 2022. As a key academic leader of the university, he has been serving as Dean of Bachelor Study Programme Portfolio since 2020 and he has also been the Academic Director for the CEMS program at Corvinus since 2013. He actively participates in curriculum development, shaping international academic collaborations, talent management, and doctoral supervision.
Balázs Szent-Iványi — Full Professor (Institute of Global Studies)
He is an international political economist who received his PhD from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2010 and completed his habilitation there in 2017. He has also worked at Aston University in the UK since 2014, where he is currently Professor of Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on international development policy, EU development assistance, the policies of Central and Eastern European donor countries, and foreign direct investment. His work has appeared in leading international journals, including the Journal of Common Market Studies and Third World Quarterly. He has authored and edited several academic books, including New Europe’s New Development Aid and European Civil Society and International Development Aid: Organisational Incentives and NGO Advocacy. His academic leadership includes serving as Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise at Aston University. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Society and Economy and has held editorial roles at several other academic journals. In 2024, Aston University recognised his contribution to research culture with its Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Promoting a Positive Research Culture.
Gyöngyi Vörösmarty — Full Professor (Institute of Operations and Decisions Sciences)
She received her PhD in 2004 and completed her habilitation in 2017, having earned her degree in Business Administration from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1994. Her research focuses on procurement, supply chain management, sustainable and green purchasing, and supplier evaluation. She has published extensively in international academic journals, including the Journal of Cleaner Production, the International Journal of Production Economics, and Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal. She co-authored the textbook Procurement: Strategy, Processes, Information and has made substantial contributions to the development of teaching materials and postgraduate programmes in procurement and supply chain management. Since 2009, she has led the university’s postgraduate programme in Procurement Management. Her professional achievements have been recognised with several awards, including the Corvinus Research Excellence Award in 2021, the Corvinus University Medal of Merit in 2022, and awards from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Business Administration for international research and book-related achievements.
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all our colleagues.
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