Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD Columbia University
Research Websites: Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES)
Research Areas: Social networks; Political sociology; Health; Online experiments; Computational methods
Kinga Makovi is an Assistant Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is a co-PI of the Center for Interacting Urban Networks at NYUAD, CITIES. Prior to joining NYUAD, she earned a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University and a MS in Mathematical Economics from Corvinus University of Budapest.
Makovi's research addresses questions at the intersection of network science, the social determinants of health and environmental behavior, using computational and experimental methods. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in Sociological Science, Scientific Reports and PLoS ONE.