Miklós Illéssy is a senior researcher at the Center of Social Sciences, Budapest. He earned his PhD and 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 Europe. He has been involved in different European research project since 2001.