Institute for Anthropological Research

The Institute for Anthropological Research is a public research institute based in Zagreb, Croatia, that carries out scientific, expert and educational activity in the field of anthropology as a medical, natural, biotechnological, social and humanistic science. Researchers at the Institute have different basic education (medical doctors, molecular biologists, archaeologists, social anthropologists, forensic scientists, psychologists, chemists, etc.) and are oriented towards anthropology during their PhD studies or through their research projects. Such diverse profiles of the Institute’s staff allows inter- and multidisciplinarity in designing and implementing research.

Institute for Anthropological Research focuses on different areas and topics, such as:

- growth and development (aging, health, obesity, nutritional status, eating habits)

- social and cultural anthropology (creative solutions, quality life in rural areas, energy sustainability, qualitative research, oncology)

- digitalisation of anthropological research

- cancer research (diagnostics, prevention, chronicle and rare diseases)

and through Center for Applied Bioanthropology:

- The Laboratory for Molecular Anthropology (population-genetic analyses, analyses of migration processes, forensic science)

- The Laboratory for Evolutionary Anthropology and Bioarchaeology (archaeology, bioarchaeological analysis, characteristics)

- The Laboratory for Chemical Analytics (toxicological analysis, quality control and assurance)

- The Laboratory for Microbial Ecology (microbiome analysis, air quality)

- The Laboratory for Chemical and Biomedical Informatics (machine learning, air pollution, identifying new biomarkers in metabolic studies, and analyzing metagenomic data