Attila Kelemen has been a visiting student at the Complexity Science Hub since September 2025.

His research spans both empirical and theoretical perspectives on the rise and fall of historical societies. Within the Social Complexity & Collapse research group, he analyzes early modern texts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries to uncover “cognitive fossils” — traces of shifting worldviews that shaped large-scale social dynamics.

Attila’s work focuses on the moral dimensions of economic and social change, applying advanced computational and AI-based methods to study the evolution of collective thought.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Károli Gáspár University, where he developed quantitative approaches for the empirical interpretation of textual artifacts. He continued his studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, pursuing graduate studies in cognitive science with a focus on the evolutionary foundations of cognition and the parallels between human and machine intelligence.

He is also completing a master’s in psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies in New York. Before joining CSH, Attila served as the managing director of a retail enterprise in Slovakia and is an active contributor to the Institute of Family Business in Bratislava.