Prof Jozsef Sakovics
Honorary Professor
Background
József studied engineering in his native Hungary before he went to Stanford for an MSc in operations research and a PhD in decision science.
He followed up with a post-doc in CentER (Netherlands) before settling in Barcelona at the Institute for Economic Analysis.
In 2000, he uprooted his Spanish family and joined the University of Edinburgh, where he served as Head of Economics in 2008-2009 and Head of School in 2019-2020. He retired from the UoE in 2024, and he is currently Distinguished Researcher at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain.
Research summary
Consumer behaviour
Industrial organisation
Game theory