dr. Hajdu Tamás assoc. professor, Head of the Department

2022-          Head of Department, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University

2021-2022  Associate Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University

2015-2020  Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University

2009-2014 Teacher assistant, Department of Biological Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University

2013–2018 volunteer researcher Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

2019-2021  Curator, Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

Lectures:         Human Biology (Primatology, Physical anthropology, European population history), Paleopathology, Human Geography, Human evolution,
                        Evolutionary Biology;

Practicals:       Applied human biology I, Human biology II, Osteology and osteometry, Paleoantropology examinations’ methodology

2003 -  Hungarian Biological Society, Section of Anthropology, member

2012 -  European Anthropological Association, member

2014 -  Hungarian Prehistoric Society, member

2014 - 2018    Hungarian Biological Society, Deputy Secretary-General

2014 -  Hungarian Academy of Sciences, VIII. Section of Biological Sciences Complex Committee on Anthropology, member

2016 - International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), member

2018 -  Hungarian Biological Society, Secretary-General

2020 - European Archaeological Association, member

• participant in: Occurrence and evolution of malignant tumors in historic populations of Hungary, leader: Erika Molnár PhD (NN-OTKA: 78696), Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, 2010-2014;
• senior researcher in: Changing populations or changing identities in the Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin, leader: Viktoria Kiss PhD (K-OTKA: 108597), Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, 2014-2017;
• senior researcher in: Mobility and Population Transformation in the Carpathian Basin during the 5th to 7th Centuries A.D.: Changing Societies and Identities, leader: Tivadar Vida CSc (NN OTKA – 113157) Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, 2014-2017.
• participant in: From bones, bronzes and sites to society: Multidisciplinary analysis of human mobility and social changes in Bronze Age Hungary (2500–1500 BC), Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Momentum research project, leader: Viktória Kiss PhD, 2015-2020;
• Erdős Pál Young Research Fellowship 2014 – (A1-EPFK-14-0014); cím: Történeti népességek daganatos megbetegedései - Valóban modern, civilizációs betegség-e a rák?
• Directorate of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary, 2014 (NKA project no. 3802/05335 together with Gyula Gyenis CSc, Manuscript writing fellowship). The authors and title of the manuscript: „Ködbe vesző múlt - Az ember biológiai és kulturális evolúciója”.
• Bolyai János research fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2015-2018. Title of the research project: A tuberkulózis csonttani tünetei és evolúciós változásai a történeti embertani leletek tükrében (Osteological evidences and evolutionary changes of tuberculosis based on ancient human remains)
• supervisor in: Multidisciplinary Research Project, Eötvös Loránd University Talent Management Council, 2016-2018. Title of the research project: Történeti korú malignus csont tumorok multidiszciplináris kutatása (Multidisciplinary research on ancient malignant bone tumors)
• supervisor in: Croatian-Hungarian bilateral research cooperation (TÉT 16), 2017-2019. Title of the research project: Population changes and coexistence in the Middle and Southwestern part of the Carpathian Basin in the Avar Period (6-9th centuries AD). Croatian supervisor is Dr. Mario Novak (Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb).
• participant in: 2017-2020 Reconstructing prehistoric (Neolithic to Bronze Age) lifestyles on the territory of Croatia – a multidisciplinary approach (PASTLIVES) supervisor: Mario Novak PhD, Zagreb (Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb).
• supervisor in: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. Cultural or demic diffusion? Transformations of population and subsistence strategies in the 2nd millennium B.C. in the Carpathian Basin. FK128013. 2018-2022.
• senior researcher in: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. Subsistence strategies in the Hun and Gepidic period Carpathian Basin. NN128035 supervisor: Zsófia Rácz PhD.
• senior researcher in: ERC Synergy Grant: “Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400–900 AD (HistoGenes).” (856453), supervisors: Walter Pohl Phd, Johannes Krause PhD, Patrick Geary PhD, Tivadar Vida PhD.

1. Hajdu, T., Donoghue, H.D., Bernert, Zs., Fóthi, E., Kővári, I., Marcsik, A. (2012): A case of spinal tuberculosis from the Middle Ages in Transylvania (Romania). Spine 37(25): E1598–E1601. (IF: 2,159)
2. Allentoft, M.E., Sikora, M., Sjögren, K.G., Rasmussen, S., Rasmussen, M., Stenderup, J., Damgaard, P.B., Schroeder, H., Ahlström, T., Vinner, L., Malaspinas, A.S., Margaryan, A., Higham, T., Chivall, D., Lynnerup, N., Harvig, L., Baron, J., Della Casa, P., Dąbrowski, P., Duffy, P.R., Ebel, A.V., Epimakhov, A., Frei, K., Furmanek, M., Gralak, T., Gromov, A., Gronkiewicz, S., Grupe, G., Hajdu, T., Jarysz, R., Khartanovich, V., Khokhlov, A., Kiss, V., Kolář, J., Kriiska, A., Lasak, I., Longhi, C., McGlynn, G., Merkevicius, A., Merkyte, I., Metspalu, M., Mkrtchyan, R., Moiseyev, V., Paja, L., Pálfi, G., Pokutta, D., Pospieszny, Ł., Price, T.D., Saag, L., Sablin, M., Shishlina, N., Smrčka, V., Soenov, V.I., Szeverényi, V., Tóth, G., Trifanova, S.V., Varul, L., Vicze, M., Yepiskoposyan, L., Zhitenev, V., Orlando, L., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Brunak, S., Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K., Willerslev, E. (2015): Population Genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia. Nature 522 (7555): 162-172 (IF: 38,138).
3. Molnár, E., Schultz, M., H. Schmidt-Schultz, T., Marcsik, A., Buczkó, K., Zádori, P., Biro, G., Bernert, Zs., Baumhoer, D., Hajdu, T. (2017): Rare case of an ancient craniofacial osteosarcoma with probable surgical intervention. Pathology & Oncology Research 23(3):583-587. (IF: 1,736).
4. Gyenis Gy., Hajdu T. (2017): Emberré válás. Az ember biológiai és kulturális evolúciója. Régészet és természettudományok 1. Budapest: Archaeolingua Alapítvány, 2017. 270 p. ISBN:978-963-9911-93-2
5. Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M.E., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Booth, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson, M., Lazaridis, I., Harper, T.K., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y., Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Harney, E., de Knijff, P., Michel, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Barclay, A., Alt, K.W., Liesau, C., Ríos, P., Blasco, C., Miguel, J.V., García, R.M., Fernández, A.A., Bánffy, E., Bernabò-Brea, M., Billoin, D., Bonsall, C., Bonsall, L., Allen, T., Büster, L., Carver, S., Navarro. L,C,, Craig, O.E., Cook, G.T., Cunliffe, B., Denaire, A., Dinwiddy, K.E., Dodwell, N., Ernée, M., Evans, C., Kuchařík, M., Farré, J.F., Fowler, C., Gazenbeek, M., Pena, R.G., Haber-Uriarte, M., Haduch, E., Hey, G., Jowett, N., Knowles, T., Massy, K., Pfrengle, S., Lefranc, P., Lemercier, O., Lefebvre, A., Martínez, C.H., Olmo, V.G., Ramírez, A.B., Maurandi, J.L., Majó, T., McKinley, J.I., McSweeney, K., Mende, B.G., Modi, A., Kulcsár, G., Kiss, V., Czene, A., Patay, R., Endrődi, A., Köhler, K., Hajdu, T., Szeniczey, T., Dani, J., Bernert, Z., Hoole, M., Cheronet, O., Keating, D., Velemínský, P., Dobeš, M., Candilio, F., Brown, F., Fernández, R.F., Herrero-Corral, A.M., Tusa, S., Carnieri, E., Lentini, L., Valenti, A., Zanini, A., Waddington, C., Delibes, G., Guerra-Doce, E., Neil, B., Brittain, M., Luke, M., Mortimer, R., Desideri, J., Besse, M., Brücken, G., Furmanek, M., Hałuszko, A., Mackiewicz, M., Rapiński, A., Leach, S., Soriano, I., Lillios, K.T., Cardoso, J.L., Pearson, M.P., Włodarczak, P., Price, T.D., Prieto, P., Rey, P.J., Risch, R., Guerra, M.A.R., Schmitt, A., Serralongue, J., Silva, A.M., Smrčka, V., Vergnaud, L., Zilhão, J., Caramelli, D., Higham, T., Thomas, M.G., Kennett, D.J., Fokkens, H., Heyd, V., Sheridan, A., Sjögren, K.G., Stockhammer. P.W., Krause, J., Pinhasi, R., Haak, W., Barnes, I., Lalueza-Fox, C., Reich, D. (2018): The Beaker Phenomenon and the Genomic Transformation of Northwest Europe. Nature 555: 190-196.  (IF: 43,070)
6. Mathieson, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Posth, C., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Olalde, I., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Candilio, F., Cheronet, O., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Gamarra, B., Fortes, G.G., Haak, W., Harney, E., Jones, E., Keating, D., Krause-Kyora, B., Kucukkalipci, I., Michel, M., Mittnik, A., Nägele, K., Novak, M., Oppenheimer, J., Patterson, N., Pfrengle, S., Sirak, K., Stewardson, K., Vai, S., Alexandrov, S., Alt, K.W., Andreescu, R., Antonović, D., Ash, A., Atanassova, N., Bacvarov, K., Gusztáv, M.B., Bocherens, H., Bolus, M., Boroneanţ, A., Boyadzhiev, Y., Budnik, A., Burmaz, J., Chohadzhiev, S., Conard, N.J., Cottiaux, R., Čuka, M., Cupillard, C., Drucker, D.G., Elenski, N., Francken, M., Galabova, B., Ganetsovski, G., Gély, B., Hajdu, T., Handzhyiska, V., Harvati, K., Higham, T., Iliev, S., Janković, I., Karavanić, I., Kennett, D.J., Komšo, D., Kozak, A., Labuda, D., Lari, M., Lazar, C., Leppek, M., Leshtakov, K., Vetro, D.L., Los, D., Lozanov, I., Malina, M., Martini, F., McSweeney, K., Meller, H., Menđušić, M., Mirea, P., Moiseyev, V., Petrova, V., Price, T.D., Simalcsik, A., Sineo, L., Šlaus, M., Slavchev, V., Stanev, P., Starović, A., Szeniczey, T., Talamo, S., Teschler-Nicola, M., Thevenet, C., Valchev, I., Valentin, F., Vasilyev, S., Veljanovska, F., Venelinova, S., Veselovskaya, E., Viola, B., Virag, C., Zaninović, J., Zäuner, S., Stockhammer, P.W., Catalano, G., Krauß, R., Caramelli, D., Zariņa, G., Gaydarska, B., Lillie, M., Nikitin, A.G., Potekhina, I., Papathanasiou, A., Borić, D., Bonsall, C., Krause, J., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D. (2018): The genomic history of southeastern Europe. Nature 555: 197-203. (IF: 43,070)
7. Köhler, K., Marcsik, A., Zádori, P., Biro, G., Szeniczey, T., Fábián, Sz., Serlegi, G., Marton, T., Donoghue, H.D., Hajdu, T. (2017): Possible cases of leprosy from the Late Copper Age (3780-3650 cal BC) in Hungary. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0185966. (IF: 2,766)
8. Szeniczey, T., Marcsik, A., Ács, Z., Balassa, T., Bernert, Z., Bakó, K., Czuppon, T., Endrődi, A., Évinger, S., Farkas, Z., Hlavenková, L., Hoppál, K., Kiss Cs.K., Kiss, K., Kocsis, K., Kovács, L.O., Kovács, P.F., Köhler, K., Költő, L., Kővári, I., László, O., Lovász, G., Lovranits, J., Lukács, J., Masek, Zs., Merczi, M., Molnár, E., Németh, Cs.E., Ódor, J.G., Paja, L., Pap, I., Patay, R., Rácz, I., Rácz, Zs,, Ritoók, Á., Szenthe, G., Szilas, G., Szőke, B.M., Tóth, Z., Vida, T., Wolff, K., Finnegan, M., Hajdu, T. (2018): Hyperostosis frontalis interna in ancient populations from the Carpathian Basin – a possible relationship between lifestyle and risk of development. International Journal of Paleopathology 24, 108-118. (IF: 1,301)
9. Harney, É., Cheronet, O., Fernandes, D.M., Sirak, K., Mah, M., Bernardos, R., Adamski, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Callan, K., Lawson, A.M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Zalzala, F., Anders, A., Candilio, F., Constantinescu, M., Coppa, A., Ciobanu, I., Dani, J., Gallina, Z., Genchi, F., Nagy, E.G., Hajdu, T., Hellebrandt, M., Horváth, A., Király, Á., Kiss, K, Kolozsi, B., Kovács, P., Köhler, K., Lucci, M., Pap, I., Popovici, S., Raczky, P., Simalcsik, A., Szeniczey, T., Vasilyev, S., Virag, C., Rohland, N., Reich, D., Pinhasi, R. (2021): A minimally destructive protocol for DNA extraction from ancient teeth. Genome Research 31(3): 472–483. doi: 10.1101/gr.267534.120. (2019 IF: 11.224)
10. Patterson, N., Isakov, M., Booth, T., Büster, L., Fischer, C.E., Olalde, I., Ringbauer, H., Akbari, A., Cheronet, O., Bleasdale, M., Adamski, N., Altena, E., Bernardos, R., Brace, S., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Culleton, B., Curtis, E., Demetz, L., Carlson, K.S.D., Edwards, C.J., Fernandes, D.M., Foody, M.G.B., Freilich, S., Goodchild, H., Kearns, A., Lawson, A.M., Lazaridis, I., Mah, M., Mallick, S., Mandl, K., Micco, A., Michel, M., Morante, G.B., Oppenheimer, J., Özdoğan, K.T., Qiu, L., Schattke, C., Stewardson, K., Workman, J.N., Zalzala, F., Zhang, Z., Agustí, B., Allen, T., Almássy, K., Amkreutz, L., Ash, A., Baillif-Ducros, C., Barclay, A., Bartosiewicz, L., Baxter, K., Bernert, Z., Blažek, J., Bodružić, M., Boissinot, P., Bonsall, C., Bradley, P., Brittain, M., Brookes, A., Brown, F., Brown, L., Brunning, R., Budd, C., Burmaz, J., Canet, S., Carnicero-Cáceres, S., Čaušević-Bully, M., Chamberlain, A., Chauvin, S., Clough, S., Čondić, N., Coppa, A., Craig, O., Črešnar, M., Cummings, V., Czifra, S., Danielisová, A., Daniels, R., Davies, A., de Jersey, P., Deacon, J., Deminger, C., Ditchfield, P.W., Dizdar, M., Dobeš, M., Dobisíková, M., Domboróczki, L., Drinkall, G., Đukić, A., Ernée, M., Evans, C., Evans, J., Fernández-Götz, M., Filipović, S,, Fitzpatrick, A., Fokkens, H., Fowler, C., Fox, A., Gallina, Z., Gamble, M., González Morales M.R., González-Rabanal, B., Green, A., Gyenesei, K., Habermehl, D., Hajdu, T., Hamilton, D., Harris, J., Hayden, C., Hendriks, J., Hernu, B., Hey, G., Horňák, M., Ilon, G., Istvánovits, E., Jones, A.M., Kavur, M.B., Kazek, K., Kenyon, R.A., Khreisheh, A., Kiss, V., Kleijne, J., Knight, M., Kootker, L.M., Kovács, P.F., Kozubová, A., Kulcsár, G., Kulcsár, V., Le Pennec, C., Legge, M., Leivers, M., Loe, L., López-Costas, O., Lord T., Los, D., Lyall, J., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., Mason, P., Matošević, D., Maxted, A., McIntyre, L., McKinley, J., McSweeney, K., Meijlink, B., Mende, B.G., Menđušić, M., Metlička, M., Meyer, S., Mihovilić, K., Milasinovic, L., Minnitt, S., Moore, J., Morley, G., Mullan, G., Musilová, M., Neil, B., Nicholls, R., Novak, M., Pala, M., Papworth, M., Paresys, C., Patten, R., Perkić, D., Pesti, K., Petit, A., Petriščáková, K., Pichon, C., Pickard, C., Pilling, Z., Price, T.D., Radović, S., Redfern, R., Resutík, B., Rhodes, D.T., Richards, M.B., Roberts, A., Roefstra, J., Sankot, P., Šefčáková, A., Sheridan, A., Skae, S., Šmolíková, M., Somogyi, K., Somogyvári, Á., Stephens, M., Szabó, G., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Szeniczey, T., Tabor, J., Tankó, K., Maria, C.T., Terry, R., Teržan, B., Teschler-Nicola, M., Torres-Martínez, J.F., Trapp, J., Turle, R., Ujvári, F., van der Heiden, M., Veleminsky, P., Veselka, B., Vytlačil, Z., Waddington, C., Ware, P., Wilkinson, P., Wilson, L., Wiseman, R., Young, E., Zaninović, J., Žitňan, A., Lalueza-Fox, C., de Knijff, P., Barnes, I., Halkon, P., Thomas, M.G., Kennett, D.J., Cunliffe, B., Lillie, M., Rohland, N., Pinhasi, R., Armit, I., Reich, D. (2022): Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Nature 601(7894): 588–594. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4. Epub 2021 Dec 22. PMID: 34937049. (IF 2020/21: 49,962)