Eight colleagues received their academic appointment certificates
At Corvinus, it has long been a tradition to celebrate our colleagues’ academic advancements, the arrival of new faculty and researchers, and the appointment of new Professor Emeriti. Last year’s annual certificate ceremony took place in October, where a total of 59 academic staff members received honorary certificates.
Starting last November, the University has introduced a new tradition for awarding certificates: newly appointed colleagues are now welcomed each month during the Senate meeting. This allows the University leadership to personally congratulate them immediately following their appointment.
At the most recent session, we celebrated the promotions of the following colleagues.
Yurii Nesterov – Professor Emeritus (Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies)
He is a world-renowned researcher in convex optimization, with more than 50,000 citations on Google Scholar. Since 2024, he has been a member of the research faculty at Budapest Corvinus University. His work has fundamentally reshaped both the theory and practice of optimization. In the 1990s, together with Arkadi Nemirovski, he co-authored the seminal book Interior-Point Polynomial Algorithms in Convex Programming, which established a unified theoretical framework for polynomial-time interior-point methods. In 2023, he received the World Laureates Association Prize, and he is also a recipient of the Dantzig Prize, the John von Neumann Theory Prize, and the EURO Gold Medal. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea, reflecting the international significance of his scientific achievements. His impact in Europe has been profound: his courses and publications — especially Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization — have become essential references in doctoral programs throughout the continent.
Máté Molnár – Assistant Lecturer (Institute of Strategy and Management)
He completed both his bachelor’s and master’s studies at Corvinus University of Budapest, earning a BA in Business Administration and Management and an MSc in Entrepreneurship Development. During his university years, he developed a strong interest in project management, and upon the encouragement of Bálint Blaskovics and Nikolett Deutsch, he began his PhD studies in 2023. His research focuses on the application of project management in the management of sports organizations, and he has published on this topic in the journal Vezetéstudomány (Budapest Management Review). As a doctoral student, he participates in teaching several university courses, including Single Project Management and Applied Sport Business.
Jeremiás Máté Balogh – Full Professor (Institute of Sustainable Development)
He obtained his PhD from the Doctoral School of Business Administration at Corvinus University of Budapest. Since September 2016, he has been a full-time faculty member of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest, where he teaches BSc students and supervises MSc and PhD students. In his research activities, he has worked as a lead researcher in several national and international projects, including two NKFIH (OTKA FK and PD) projects examining the environmental impacts of agricultural trade. His achievements have been recognized with several professional awards: in 2020, he received the Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship of the New National Excellence Program (ÚNKP), and he has won the Corvinus Research Excellence Award in multiple years and categories. He has also participated in national (OTKA) and international (Horizon) review activities. He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal of Foodservice Business Research, and SN Business & Economics, and since 2024 he has been the president of the Hungarian Association of Agricultural Economics (MAKE). Between February and June 2026, he is conducting research in California, United States, as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.
Zoltán Csedő – Full Professor (Institute of Strategy and Management)
He earned his MSc degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003, his PhD at Budapest Corvinus University in 2007, and habilitated at the University of Miskolc in 2020. Since 2016, he has been Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Organization of Corvinus, serving as Head of Department since 2017. His main research areas include change management, corporate governance, and management of interorganizational networks. He is co-author of the books titled Change Management (2019) and Corporate Governance (2021), both published by Akadémiai Kiadó. A former Chevening Scholar, he is a two-time recipient of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Publication Excellence Award. He is author of 157 scientific publications, one patent and one utility model, cited a total of 1100 times, and serves as editorial board member for leading academic journals.
Nikolett Deutsch – Full Professor (Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation)
She graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Miskolc and earned her PhD in 2012 from the Doctoral School of Business Administration at University of Pécs. Since 2015, she has been a faculty member at Budapest Corvinus University, habilitated in 2020, and has served as Head of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation since 2022. Her main research areas are system innovation, sustainable innovation, strategic technology management, and banking sustainability. In 2023, she founded the Strategic Technology Management Excellence Research Group. She has published over 160 articles and has been an active member or leader of 17 domestic and international research projects. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and has co-organized two international innovation conferences.
Zsuzsa Réka Huszár – Full Professor (Institute of Finance)
Since 2022, she has been a full-time faculty member in the Department of Finance at Corvinus University of Budapest. She earned her PhD from the University of Kentucky. Previously, she served as a visiting professor at, among others, the National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University. She is an academic with over twenty years of international experience and numerous Q1 publications. She has presented at leading conferences, including the American Finance Association, ASSA, EFA, and FMA annual meetings, and has been an invited speaker at prominent universities in the UK, the United States, and the Far East. At Corvinus, she has developed her own Master’s and PhD courses with a practical, applied finance focus. Her research is recognized not only within the academic finance community but also by government institutions and financial authorities, which frequently cite her work.
Anna Rita Irimiás – Full Professor (Institute of Sustainable Development)
Between 2000 and 2004, she studied at the Università degli Studi di Messina, where she earned her PhD in 2008. Since returning home in 2008, she has been active in higher education as a lecturer and researcher. Her main fields of expertise include tourism management and planning, cultural and film tourism, and tourism-related consumer behavior. She habilitated in 2018 at Corvinus University of Budapest, where she has been teaching in the Doctoral School of Business Administration since 2015. She has maintained strong professional ties with Italy: since 2017, she has been a lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Trento and also teaches at the Free University of Bolzano. Her work has been recognized with several prestigious scholarships and academic awards, including the János Bolyai Post-doctoral Scholarship and the Hungarian Eötvös Scholarship. In 2024, she received the Corvinus Research Excellence Award in recognition of her outstanding publication performance.
Miklós György Stocker – Full Professor (Institute of Strategy and Management)
He graduated in economics from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Pécs and earned his PhD at Corvinus University of Budapest in 2013. Since 2020, he has been the head of the Department of Business Studies, and from 2022, the head of the Institute of Strategy and Management; he obtained his habilitation in 2023. His research focuses on examining the effects of strategic decisions, whether related to internationalization, corporate competitiveness, knowledge management, or sports. He has published in several prestigious international journals and has been recognized twice with the Corvinus Research Excellence Award. He is an active member of the Academy of International Business and has successfully mentored student teams in international case competitions since 2012.
Zsolt Péter Szabó – Full Professor (Institute of Strategy and Management)
He graduated as a licensed psychologist from the University of Pécs and earned his PhD at the same university’s Doctoral School of Psychology in 2013. Since 2024, he has been the head of the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Strategy and Management at Corvinus University of Budapest. Since 2023, he has also been an associate professor at the Department of Social Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University. He has contributed as a lead researcher and participant to numerous national and international projects, including NFKI, IHRA, and Erasmus+ programs. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications, cited a total of 705 times, and has presented at numerous prestigious conferences, including EASP and ISPP events. Additionally, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Congratulations on the promotions, and we warmly welcome our new colleagues to our academic community.