Noémi Katona, PhD is a post-doctoral researcher in the CareOrg research project the Institute of Sociology at the Center of Social Sciences, Budapest. She earned her PhD in sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2020. Her main research interests include gender, migration, sex industry and care work. She has been focusing on the recent developments in the transnational care and sex markets in various research projects. She is a member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” and  of the Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies. Currently she works in an international research project called  CareOrg: Researching the transnational organization of senior care, labor and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe.