+ 36 30 9645935
hegedus [at] mri [.] hz
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Hanna Szemző (PhD in History, Master’s degree in Sociology and History) has been working for Metropolitan Research Institute for more than 15 years. She has extensive experience in research and consultancy in the fields of urban development, social inclusion, energy efficiency, demography, welfare, and governance analysis. She has participated in various 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes of the European Union, prepared strategic development concepts for local governments, and has provided consultancy for Habitat for Humanity International in Armenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently she coordinates the EU financed HomeLab project which connects employment and housing provision in five pilot sites in the Visegrad four countries.
szemzo [at] mri [.] hu
Iván Tosics (born in Budapest in 1952) is one of the principals of Metropolitan Research Institute. He is mathematician and sociologist (PhD) and research fellow with long experience in urban sociology, strategic development, housing policy and EU regional policy issues. Since late 2011 he was one of the three Thematic Pole Managers of the URBACT programme, which has changed since January 2016 into Programme Expert position. He teaches at the University of Pécs, Department of Political Studies, Doctoral School. He is Vice Chair of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), Board member of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). He was member until 2013 of the HS-NET Advisory Board to UN-HABITAT. He is the Policy Editor of the journal ‘Urban Research and Practice’, member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the ‘Journal of Housing and the Built Environment’ and for ‘Housing Studies.
tosics [at] mri [.] hu
Iván Tosics's website: https://tosics.eu/
+ 36 30 964 5937
Éva Gerőházi (MsC in Economics) joint MRI in 1997 and since then she has gained rich experience in diverse fields of urban development. She started her carrier as the project manager of the residential building renovation programme of USAID. Since then she continued on dealing with the energy efficient renovation of residential buildings from time to time broadening the scope to Central and Eastern Europe and focusing on also the issues of energy poverty. She elaborated urban development plans for various Hungarian municipalities and also dealt with the special problems of deprived neighbourhoods. Eva has participated in different research programmes financed by the European Union in the fields of renovation of big housing estates, fostering the community self-organised construction and renovation of the housing stock and the green infrastructure governance in European cities. Eva was the coordinator of the European Union H2020 UPLIFT project which focused on social inequalities among young people. Currently the major research areas of Eva are centered on the issue of energy efficient renovation of the residential building stock.
gerohazi [at] mri [.] hu
+ 36 30 8666738
+ 36 30 5761472
horvath [at] mri [.] hu
Eszter Somogyi holds a Master's Degree in economics with specialization in Sociology. She has gained over 20 years of professional experience as a researcher at the Metropolitan Research Institute. She has been participating in numerous research and consultancy projects for Hungarian and international clients, among which the evaluation and elaboration of national and local housing policies, housing finance systems and urban regeneration programs. She particularly focuses on social provision and housing affordability problems. She is currently the co-coordinator of HomeLab, a DG Employment financed project piloting integrated housing and employment service provision.
somogyi[at]mri[.]hu
+ 36 30 529 4256
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somogyi [at] mri [.] hu
+ 36 30 5294256
Nóra Teller (PhD, Sociology) has 24 years of research and consultancy experience in social inclusion and housing inclusion measures, homelessness research, and housing desegregation in the urban and rural context. She has contributed to the impact assessment of various EU-co-funded social inclusion measures for the last 14 years, and worked for a number of international organisations like the World Bank, Council of Europe Development Bank, European Commission and the Open Society Foundations. She is member of the European Observatory on Homelessness and has co-edited the European Journal of Homelessness for 16 years.
teller [at] mri [.] hu
+ 36 30 5761449
Andrea Tönkő (MA in Economics) has more than twenty years of research and consultancy experience in the areas of governance, intergovernmental fiscal relations and financing public services. She conducted several research on the above mentioned areas and has worked as a project manager for several international programs. She has training experience as well. She was coordinating the distance learning program of the CEU-OSI summer university course “Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management” for more than ten years. She is currently participating in several international research projects funded by the EU.
tonko [at] mri [.] hu
Nóra Panna Katona holds a degree in Sociology MA and Survey Statistics Msc. Before joining to MRI she participated in researches in the fields of remembrance and rural life. She started to work at MRI in 2018, contributing to the quantitative analysis of the HomeLab project. Currently she works on an international project coordinated by MRI, called UPLIFT that focuses on urban inequalities among young adults and aims to implement a reflective decision-making process in 4 European functional urban areas. Additionally, she participates in projects in the fields of housing affordability, (de)segregation and homelessness.
katona@mri.hu
Noémi Annamária Vajdovich (PhD student at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Doctoral School of Earth Sciences) is currently working on the health status and health care of people experiencing homelessness. She obtained her Master's degree in 2024 in Regional Analysis at the Master of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, ELTE. During her studies, she researched methods of measuring energy poverty in the framework of the 35th National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference and also gained professional experience at the so called Hétfa Research Institute and the Pro Régio Agency.
Olga Müller has a BSc and MSc in geography from Eötvös Loránd University, she was specialised in regional analysis. She is currently a PhD student at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, her PhD research concerns income inequalities and development disparities within Hungary. Before joining Metropolitan Research Institute, she worked as junior climate policy expert at HungaroMet Hungarian Meteorological Service. She started working at Metropolitan Research Institute as a junior researcher in 2025, she is currently working on the ESPON URDICO project.