Judit Takács (born 1968) is a Hungarian sociologist, researcher and university professor. She is a Research Chair of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and works at the Institute of Sociology of the Centre for Social Sciences. [1]
Her main research interests are family roles, work–life balance, social history of sexual minorities, transphobia, homophobia, discrimination, equality, HIV/AIDS prevention. [2]
Takács was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her parents were both intellectuals; her mother was a linguist, her father was an ethnographer. She studied history and Hungarian language and literature (MA degree 1992) and cultural anthropology (MA degree 1995) at Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest. She also got an MA in Social Sciences (1994) from University of Amsterdam.[ citation needed]
Takács has a PhD degree in sociology from Corvinus University, she got her habilitation in 2011 from Eotvos Lorand University. [3]