Petra Mátyás-Rausch is a research fellow at the Institute of History (Research Centre for the Humanities). She obtained her PhD degree at the Faculty of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, University of Pécs in 2012. The focus of her doctoral thesis was on the administrative mechanisms of early modern Hungarian and Transylvanian mining history (the revised and extended version was published in 2017 by the Research Centre for the Humanities with the support of the publishing fellowship of Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Between 2013 and 2017, she successfully completed an OTKA PD fellowship at the Institute of History. Then from 2017 to 2022, she led a research team in a young researcher project (NKFI FK), which focused on the financial administration of the Transylvanian Principality. Currently, she is working on the economic and financial governance of the early modern Transylvanian state, with a special focus on the economic governance of the Rákóczi era. In addition, she is a member of the research group (NKFI K, at the Institute of History): Sources of the History of Government and Law in the Principality of Transylvania. Her main research area is the history of the Habsburg governmental bodies in Transylvania in the early 17th century. She co-authored a sourcebook (2021) and published a monograph in 2023. Her publications have appeared in Hungarian, English and German in national and international journals.
Her research abroad has been supported by the Eötvös State Scholarship and the Kunó Klebelsberg Scholarship. In summer 2013, she was awarded a Humboldt Youth Fellowship. Her scientific achievements were recognised in 2017 with the Youth Award/Junior Prize of Hungarian Academy of Sciences.