László Mátyás is a University Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at the Central European University (CEU – Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria). He (co)authored and (co)edited several high impact publications in econometrics, mostly in the field of panel data. Earlier, among others, he worked as Senior Lecturer at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), was the founding Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (Budapest, Hungary), and also served as Provost of CEU. Mátyás serves as a co-editor of the Springer book series ""Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics"".