Zoltán Elekes is engaged in research on topics at the intersection of evolutionary economic geography and network science. He received his PhD in economics from the Doctoral School of Economics at the University of Szeged, Hungary, in 2018. In his thesis, he explored how multinational enterprises and imports influence the economic diversification of microregions. He is a senior research fellow at the ANETI Lab of the HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies in Hungary, where he studies the geography and robustness of supplier-buyer networks. He leads a research project at the Centre for Regional Science at Umeå University, Sweden, on how the network structure of local labour markets conditions regional economic resilience and structural change. He has published in leading field journals, including Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and European Planning Studies, and has refereed for Economic Geography and Regional Studies, among others. Zoltán is the 2019 recipient of the Excellent Young Regional Scientist Award of the Hungarian Regional Science Association, the Hungarian section of ERSA. Since 2019, he has consulted with policymakers in Swedish regions on smart specialization and regional economic development on multiple occasions. He continues to mentor students in Hungary and contributes to the Network and Spatial Analysis course developed by the ANETI Lab.