Fanni Svégel is an ethnographer whose research explores the history of childbirth, abortion, reproductive expertise, and violence against women. She holds an MA in European Ethnology from Eötvös Loránd University and completed her PhD in 2025. Within the Femex Team, her work focuses on Hungarian women experts in family planning, childcare, and medicine.
Her dissertation, The Changing Landscape of Reproduction, examined the intersections of medical, political, and cultural influences on reproduction, highlighting the complex dynamics of state intervention, professionalization, medicalization, and gender in mid-20th-century Hungary. During her doctoral studies, she received multiple national scholarships and completed her dissertation with support from the International Visegrad Fund, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Tokyo Foundation.
In 2021, she was awarded first place in the essay competition organized by the Women in Science Presidential Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for her biographical essay on the folklorist Tekla Dömötör, later published in Magyar Tudomány, the journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Her research has been published in Central European History, Journal of Family History, and East Central Europe.