ANETILAB - Agglomeration and Social Networks Research Lab

Team

Balázs Lengyel

Head | ANETI Lab
Senior Research Fellow | ANETI Lab at HUN-REN KRTK
Senior Research Fellow | ANETI Lab at Corvinus University of Budapest

BIO

Balázs Lengyel is an economic geographer and works on topics at the intersection of economic geography, innovation studies, and network science. He aims to understand how social interaction facilitates economic and technological progress embedded in geographical space.
Balázs joined the Institute of Economics in 2013. Before establishing the ANET Lab, he was a visiting scholar at MIT Human Mobility and Networks Lab. Balázs completed his PhD in economics at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2010 and holds a master degree from University of Szeged.

PUBLICATIONS

  • B Lengyel, E Bokányi, S Juhász
  • EE Bookchapter
  • 2025
B Lengyel, E Bokányi, S Juhász (2025) The geography of segregated online social networks in the largest US cities. In D Broitman, K Kopczewska, D Czamanski (eds.) Handbook on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Cities (pp. 92-109). Edward Elgar.
  • B Lengyel, G Tóth, N A Christakis, A Bíró
  • Science Advances
  • 2024
B Lengyel, G Tóth, N A Christakis, A Bíró (2024) Antidepressant use in spatial social networks. Science Advances, 10(49): eadr0302.
  • S Juhász, G Pinter, Á Kovács, E Borza, G Mónus, L Lőrincz, B Lengyel
  • EPJ Data Science
  • 2023
S Juhász, G Pintér, Á Kovács, E Borza, G Mónus, L Lőrincz, B Lengyel (2023) Amenity complexity and urban locations of socio-economic mixing. EPJ Data Science, 12: 34.
  • Á Kovács, S Juhász, E Bokányi, B Lengyel
  • Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
  • 2022
Á Kovács, S Juhász, E Bokányi, B Lengyel (2022) Income-related spatial concentration of individual social capital in cities. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50(4): 1072-1086.
  • B Lengyel, E Bokányi, R Di Clemente, J Kertész, M C González
  • Scientific Reports
  • 2020
B Lengyel, E Bokányi, R Di Clemente, J Kertész, M C González (2020) The role of geography in the complex diffusion of innovations. Scientific Reports, 10: 15065.
  • J Wachs, T Yasseri, B Lengyel, J Kertész
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • 2019
J Wachs, T Yasseri, B Lengyel, J Kertész (2019) Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns. Royal Society Open Science, 6(4): 182103.
  • B Lengyel, A Varga, B Ságvári, Á Jakobi, J Kertész
  • PLoS One
  • 2015
B Lengyel, A Varga, B Ságvári, Á Jakobi, J Kertész (2015) Geographies of an online social network. PLoS One, 10(9): 0137248.
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