Dr. Zoltán Lakner investigates the application of dynamic system theory in analysis, planning, management and control of large-scale food supply networks, focussing on Africa and Central-Asia. He possesses a wide range of experience in big-data based modelling of complex socio-economic systems by state-of-art methods of statistics, econometrics and artificial intelligence, quantitative, data-driven agricultural and food policy analysis, discrete-time and agent-based modelling of logistical food supply chains, application of game-theory in the analysis of social bargaining processes and open source intelligence (OSINT) tools in research and innovation policy.