Tamás Hajdu
Assist. Professor


Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös University
1117 Budapest
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c.
room 7-205

Tel.: (36-1) 411-6500/8767
E-mail: hajdut@elte.hu



Contact hours: Thursday 14°°-16°°












Curriculum vitae


Education, Degrees and Positions
2012: PhD title in Biology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös L. University, Budapest
2006-2009: Doctoral School, PhD scholarship, Faculty of Science, Eötvös L. University, Budapest
2000-2006: BSc and MSc in Biology, Faculty of Science, Eötvös L. University, Budapest

Work places
2015- 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 - volunteer curator museologist, Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

Membership in Professional Societies
2003- Hungarian Biological Society, Section of Anthropology, member
2012- European Anthropological Association, member
2014- Hungarian Prehistoric Society, member
2014- Hungarian Biological Society, Deputy Secretary-General
2014- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, VIII. Section of Biological Sciences Complex Committee on Anthropology, member

Projects and funding
• 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: Gyula Gyenis CSc - Tamás Hajdu Tamás PhD: 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

Conference participations
2003: European Anthropological Association - "Human Variability: a Bridge between Sciences and Humanities", 1-5.09.2003, Komotini, Greece;
• 2005: IV. Kárpát-medencei Biológiai Szimpózium (4th Biological Symposium of the Carpathian Basin) 17-19 October 2005, Budapest, Hungary;
2007: Őskoros Kutatók V. Összejövetele (5th Meeting for the Researchers of Prehistory) 12-14 March 2007, Debrecen, Hungary;
• 2007: V. Kárpát-medencei Biológiai Szimpózium, (5th Biological Symposium of the Carpathian Basin) 20-22 September 2007, Budapest, Hungary;
• 2008: Nemzetközi régészeti konferencia, Tata, Kuny Domokos Megyei Múzeum - Interkulturális kapcsolatok a Közép-Duna-medencében a bronzkorban". (Die Interkulturellen Kontakte im Mitteldonaubecke in der Bronzezeit.) 27-30 October 2008, Kuny Domokos Megyei Múzeum, Tata, Hungary;
2009: Colloque 2009 Hongrie, Groupe des Paleopathologistes de Langue Francaise, "Des Lesions du Passé aux Diagnostics Modernes". - Meeting 2009, Hungary - Association of the French-Speaking Paleopathologists, "From Past Lesions to Modern Diagnostics".30 April- 3 May 2009, Budapest, Szeged, Hungary;
2010: "Környezet-Ember-Kultúra. Az alkalmazott természettudományok és a régészet párbeszéde". (Environment-Human-Culture. Dialogue between applied sciences and archaeology.). Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum - Nemzeti Örök ségvédelmi Központ, Budapest, 6-9 October 2010. Budapest, Hungary;
2010: "Hadak útján" a Népvándorlás Kor Fiatal Kutatóinak XX. konferenciája. (Assembly of Young Scholars on the Migration Period XX) 28th-30th October 2010, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Örökségvédelmi Központ, Budapest, Szigethalom, Hungary;
• 2012: 75th Anniversary of Albert Szent-Györgyi's Nobel Prize Award"ICEPT-2", Past & Present of Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary overview on the origin and evolution of TB. 22-25 March 2012, Szeged, Hungary;
2014: "Day of the Dead" - Recent Research in Human Osteoarchaeology. Queen's University Belfast, 17th-19th October 2014, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

Languages
English: Intermediate Level Write and Read (C) 2006
German: Basic Level Write and Read (C) 2010





Selected publications


  1. Hajdu, T., Fóthi, E., Bernert, Zs., Molnár, E., Lovász, G., Kővári, I., Köhler, K., Marcsik, A. (2009): Appearance of hyperostosis frontalis interna in some osteoarcheological series from Hungary. HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 60(3), 185-205.
  2. Évinger, S., Bernert, Zs., Fóthi, E., Wolff, K., Kővári, I., Marcsik, A., Donoghue, H.D., O'Grady, J., Kiss, K.K., Hajdu, T. (2011): New skeletal tuberculosis cases in past populations from Western Hungary (Transdanubia). HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 62(3): 165-183.
  3. Szabó, G., Hajdu, T. (2011): A mészbetétes edények díszítésének szimbolikája a bonyhádi vegyes rítusú bronzkori temető embertani leleteinek feldolgozása tükrében, Anthropologiai Közlemények, 52: 85-108.
  4. Wolff, K., Évinger, S., Hajdu, T., Gyenis, Gy. (2012): Anthropological examination of the chronologically separated groups of the 11th-13th century Zalavár-Chapel (Zalavár-Kápolna) cemetery from Hungary. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 69(4): 473-490.
  5. 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.
  6. Hajdu, T., Fóthi, E., Kővári, I., Merczi, M., Molnár, A., Maász, G., Avar, P., Marcsik, A., Márk, L. (2012): Bone Tuberculosis in Roman Period Pannonia (Western part of Hungary). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 107 (8): 1048-1053.
  7. Hlavenková, L., Gábor, O., Beňuš, R., Smrčka, V., Jambor, J., Hajdu, T. (2013): Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis from Roman Hungary. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 70(3): 261-271.
  8. Merczi, M., Marcsik, A., Bernert, Zs., Józsa, L., Buczkó, K., Lassányi, G., H. Kelemen, M., Zádori, P., Vandulek, Cs., Biró, G., Hajdu, T., Molnár, E. (2014): Skeletal metastatic carcinomas from the Roman Period (1st-5th century AD) in Hungary. Pathobiology, 81(2): 100-111.
  9. Hlavenková, L., Teasdale, M., Gábor, O., Nagy, G., Beňuš, R., Marcsik, A., Pinhasi, R., Hajdu, T. (2015): Childhood bone tuberculosis from Roman Pécs, Hungary. HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology 66(1): 27-37.
  10. 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., Dšbrowski, 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.

The full publication list is available at:
https://vm.mtmt.hu//search/slist.php?lang=0&AuthorID=10028165

 




Research activity

Physical anthropological analysis of human remains from the ancient Carpathian Basin.


Teaching activity

Lectures: Human Biology (Primatology, Human evolution, European population history), Paleopathology, Human Geography, Human evolution;
Practicals: Applied human biology I, Humanbiology II, Osteology and osteometry, Paleoantropology examinations' methodology


                      

Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University
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