Tamás Keller joined the RECENS group in the autumn of 2014. He received his PhD in Sociology at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2010 and recently returned from an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral researcher position at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2006 he has served as a researcher at TÁRKI Social Research Institute. His major research interests include education, social stratification and the role of attitudes and values. He currently leads a research project on ‘The Educational Outcome of Pupil’s Self-confidence’ supported by a grant from the OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund), grant number: PD 105976. At RECENS he is working on a paper in collaboration with Károly Takács about the educational outcomes of within classroom peer-networks, especially how desk-mates influence academic achievement.