Szilvia Kovács

I am a recipient of a DOC-team Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Science, my doctoral research work is about: 'The Artist as Urban Planner - A Social Science Research' (2012-2016).

At the moment I am a PhD-student at the Doctoral School of Social and Economic Sciences of Vienna Technical University (AUT). I also studied at the Doctoral School of Regional and Economic Sciences of István Széchenyi University (Győr, HUN).

I was a junior researcher at the Institute for Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, contributed in basic and applied research projects until 2012, focused especially on development of large urban areas, urban sprawl and sustainable territorial consumption.

My interests to social sciences, particularly to sociology was extended at Eötvös Loránd University (2004-2008/2010, Budapest, HUN) which also helped to step forward to a market analyst position at Cegedim Hungary Ltd. in 2007 and by its Swedish subsidiary in Göteborg for 2008. I gained experience in primary and secondary research, field work management and client serving.

I worked as a product manager at Verlag Dashöfer Publishing Ltd. between 2004-2006 in Budapest, used both my economic and communication studies for marketing, sales and product development in editing, design and administration.

Since 2012, I am a freelancer.

I am married, I have a daughter and a son.