Dr Mario Novak

Mario Novak got a degree in history and archeology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Zagreb, where he received his doctorate in biological anthropology (bioarchaeology) in 2008. Between 2002 and 2013 he worked at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and from 2013 to 2015 he worked at University College Dublin, Ireland as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2015, he has been employed at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb, where he currently works as a senior research associate. Since 2024 he has a post of an associate professor at the University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.

His professional activities involve a holistic approach in the research of human remains from an archaeological context. In his research, he combines numerous analytical methods taken from various scientific disciplines such as (bio)archaeology, stable isotope analysis, paleogenetics, radiology, etc. He is the PI and collaborator in several domestic and international research projects. In addition to publications in scientific and professional journals, he also presented the results of his research at more than 80 meetings, but also at numerous public lectures, workshops for children, etc. Mario as external collaborator on the MOVE project will explore with us diet and mobility of Neolithic communities in the western part of South Carpathian Basin.