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Dániel Gerber among the winners of the Danubius Young Scientist Award 2025
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This year, among the nominees from Hungary, Dániel Gerber, a research fellow at our institute, received the Danubius Young Scientist Award, an honor granted by the Vienna-based Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Women, Science and Research.
Domestic and International Conferences – October–November 2025
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Over the past two months, researchers from the Institute of Archaeogenomics have presented their current and exciting findings at numerous scientific conferences both in Hungary and abroad. In this summary, we provide an overview of the talks delivered.
Faces of Jelena – a short film tells the story of Hungary’s first facial reconstruction of a Bronze Age woman
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In 2003, the graves of 11 individuals from the Early Bronze Age were found in two grave groups at the Balatonkeresztúr-Réti-dűlő site during excavations along the route of motorway M7 in Hungary. One of these graves (no. 13) belonged to a woman aged 35–45 at the time of her death. Her skull was preserved in very good condition, providing the basis for the first facial reconstruction of a Bronze Age woman in Hungary, completed in 2022.
Murder in cold blood? Forensic and bioarchaeological identification of the skeletal remains of Béla, Duke of Macsó
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An international project led by Hungarian researchers has successfully identified the remains of Duke Béla, the Ban of Macsó, a member of the Árpád and Rurik dynasties. During the research coordinated by Tamás Hajdu (Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE TTK)), Anna Szécsényi-Nagy and Noémi Borbély from the Institute of Archaeogenomics, ELTE RCH were responsible for the genetic analyses. The investigations have answered a century-old archaeological question. The results clearly illustrate how effectively historical data can be verified and past violent deaths can be reconstructed in unprecedented detail through the cooperation of the humanities and the natural sciences. The new study has been published in the prestigious forensic journal Forensic Science International: Genetics.
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