Dr Gábor Polyák works as a professor for media law and media policy
and as the head of the Media and Communication Department of the Eötvös
Loránd University. He also works for the Institute for Legal Studies of
the Centre for Social Sciences as a senior research fellow. Further, he
is a researcher of Mertek Media Monitor, a Hungarian NGO dealing with
media policy issues.
Before, ha was the head of the Department for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Pécs between 2016 and 2020.
He
was research fellow at the University of Münster, Institute for
Information, Telecommunication and Media Law from 2014 to 2016, and an
associate professor at the University of Pécs, Institute for Information
and Communication Law from 2001 to 2014.
His academic
background includes law and media studies at the University of Pécs, a
Master of Laws degree in ICT law at the University of Vienna, a PhD
degree and habilitation at the University of Pécs. He teaches and does
research in the fields of media law, IT law, media policy, media ethics
and media economics.