Júlia Koltai carries out research in the field of computational social science, which lies at the intersection of data science and social sciences. Her research focuses on how social processes and patterns can be understood through large-scale, mainly digital data. She graduated in 2007 from ELTE in Sociology, majoring in Survey Statistics, defended her PhD thesis in 2013 and gave her habilitation lecture in 2022. In 2017, she was awarded a grant from the New National Excellence Programme for ‘The application of Big Data and natural language processing in the social sciences’, and in 2019 she was supported by the national scientific research fund (OTKA) Young Researcher Grant for the research ‘The social historical analysis of the press between 1945 and 1989 using natural language processing (NLP) methods’. Since 2022, she has been leading the Hungarian team of the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund’s research project ‘Humanized Algorithms: Identifying and Mitigating Algorithmic Biases in Social Networks’. Júlia started her research in 2014 at the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where she currently leads the MTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification and the Social Science Research Group of the National Laboratory for Health Security as a senior research fellow. Between 2019 and 2021, she was a visiting professor at the Department of Network and Data Science of the Central European University, and has been teaching at the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences since 2008, currently as a habilitated associate professor. She has been a supervisor of several doctoral students, author of more than 60 international and Hungarian journal articles and book chapters, and multiple winner of the Centre for Social Sciences’ Publication of the Year Award. In 2020 she received the ELTE Promising Researcher Award and in 2022 the Ferenc Erdei Memorial Medal, awarded by the Hungarian Sociological Association for outstanding achievements of young sociologists.