Judit Mokos

Evolutionary and Theoretical Biologist | Data Scientist

mokjud(a)gmail.com

Currently I do

• PhD, Evolutionary and Theoretical Biology, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, 2015-
  • Topics: Human behavioural evolution, altruism, cooperation, biostatistics, data science

I learnt already

• Bsc, Biology-Literature Teacher, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, 2010-2013
  • Thesis: Evolution of HIV’s virulence
  • Topics: informal learning, science communication, the evolution of viruses, magic realism in contemporary youth novels
• Msc, Ecology-, Evolutionary and Conservation Biology, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, 2013-2015
  • Thesis: The evolutionary aspects and motivations of human altruism
  • Topics: human behavior, human evolution, human cooperation, animal cooperation, biostatistics
• Biologist trainee, University of Bath, Milne Centre for Evolution, UK, 2017
  • Topic: Sex roles and sexual selection: testing an evolutionary hypothesis
  • Biostatistics, comparative methods, meta-analyses, behaviour ecology, phylogeny-based statistical methods, path analysis, linear models
• GLM2017VPA: GLM for Evolutionary Ecologist, France, 2017
  • linear models, data visualization
  • https://glm2017vpa.sciencesconf.org/
• Popular Science Video Workshop, Hungary, 2018
  • http://filmjungle.eu/welcome-popsci-people
• High-Dimensional Data Analysis in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lund, Sweden, 2018
  • https://www.biology.lu.se/education/phd-studies/geneco-graduate-research...
• Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, St Andrews, Scotland, 2019
  • https://www.diverseintelligencessummer.com/about

I have experiences

• helping as a data scientist for several scientific programs and civil organizations. 2017-
• holding workshops about data science and R 2017-
• Teaching Biostatistics and R programming for undergrads, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, 2016-
• Plant Ecologist, Field Surveyor, Danube-Ipoly National Park, Hungary, 2015
• Volunteer-Program Coordinator, Jaffe Family Service, 2010-2017

I can use

• Basic statistical methods (for example t-tests, F-tests, One-way and Multiway ANOVA, correlations, simple and multiple linear regressions, Chi-square tests, non-parametric tests, etc)
• Comparative methods
• Phylogeny-based methods (for example Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares, Phylogenetic Path Analysis)
• Meta-analytical methods
• General Linear Models, Linear Mixed Models, General Linear Mixed Models, etc
• Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analysis
• High-Dimensional Data Analysis
• basically every statistical method that an ecologist, psychologist or economist would need. 
• Data visualization

I like to do

• Science communication.  

My current projects

• why do humans like to help strangers? 
• how we can make humans even more cooperative? 
• how smartphone using affect our cognitive ability? 
• how do humans decide to be corrupt or honest? 
• why humans like telling and listening to stories? 
• how we could solve the climate crisis? 

I teach at ELTE: 

• Research metholodgy for biologists (2010-recent)
• Advanced R for biologists (2021-recent)
• Biostatistics (2015-2018)

Popular science 

• Koronavírus kisokos 
• Az együtt átélt katasztrófa összekovácsolja a közösséget Qubit
• Együttműködőbbé tesz minket a járvány? interjú

Hardcore science

• Altruism, costly signaling, and withholding information in a sport charity campaign

I am proud of

• ambassador of Researchers' Night in Hungary, 2018, 2019
• LifeScience Elevator Speech Festival, 2016, 1st place
• FameLab Hungary, 2017, finalist

I can speak

• Hungarian
• English
• Spanish (un poco)