Miklós Illéssy, PhD is a senior researcher at the Center of Social Sciences, Budapest and the co-chair of the Innovation and Society Research Centre. He earned his PhD at the Szent István University in 2016. He has over 20 years’ of experience in empirical research on labour studies, innovation, learning economy, platformisation, and digitalisation. Currently his work focuses on comparative understanding of how technological development and various health, economic, and environmental crises affect the world of work, and to what extent these effects differ in different European countries. He has been involved in different European research project since 2001, including WORKS, MEADOW, Quinne, Incoding. He has published more than 100 articles, books and book chapters in journals such as Transfer, Intersections or Algorithms and publishers such as Routledge.