European Academy of Sociology - Fellows

Prof. Dr. Tamas Rudas

Tamas Rudas was educated as a mathematician in probability and mathematical statistics (MSc and Dr. rer. nat., ELTE, CSc, HAS) and obtained further qualifications in sociology (Dr. habil., ELTE, DSc, HAS).  He is Professor of Statistics in the Faculty of Social Sciences of ELTE. He was Founding Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of ELTE, and Director-General of the Centre For Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Tamas Rudas is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Washington and Past President of the European Association of Methodology. He was also a long-time collaborator of the TARKI Social Research Institute. His research concentrates on statistical methods for the analysis of categorical data and, in general, on the methodology of the social sciences. He published in the Annals of Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Biometrika, Sociological Methodology, Quality and Quantity. He authored / edited volumes published by Springer and Sage.