Péter Baji, Young Research Fellow

As a Young Research Fellow, my attention focuses on the usage and analyzing methods of big data in the research of social sciences. Particularly, my research areas are urban sociology and urban geography. Within these, I research the effects of postfordist/postindustrial transformation of advanced economies on cities today. The first emphasized area of my research the rise of the new economy, which was my PhD thesis, and it includes the analysis of ‘tertiarization’ of urban labour markets (and within this the creative and knowledge-intensive sectors), which has an ongoing effect on the urban socio-economic structure. My second significant research area the smart city, and its domains (e. g. smart urban transportation) as an urban development paradigm, which is a highlighted area in the urban research literature today.