Márton Karsai is a network scientist with research interests in human dynamics, contagion phenomena and socioeconomic systems, especially focusing on heterogeneous temporal dynamics, spatial and temporal networks, socioeconomic networks and data-driven modelling of biological and social contagion processes. He is an expert in collecting and analysing large human behavioural datasets and in developing data-driven models of social phenomena.

Márton is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Network and Data Science at the Central European University in Vienna, where he leads the Computational Human Dynamics Lab. He is a Researcher Professor at the Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Advances in Complex Systems.

He has coordinated projects in several topics, most recently on segregation patterns in mobility, in migration, and in epidemic burden. He works in collaboration with CSH members on poverty inference methods using remotely sensed data sources.