Dr Tatjana Buklijas

Biography

Tatjana was trained as a physician in her hometown of Zagreb, Croatia, but then changed career to first study (M.Phil. and PhD) and then work, as a Wellcome Research Fellow, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. In 2008 Tatjana moved to New Zealand and took up a research fellowship at the Liggins Institute. Between 2008 and 2015 she worked in the Centre for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Disease on projects related to evolutionary medicine and developmental origins of health and disease, especially from the perspective of the history and philosophy of evolution and development. In 2015/2016 she was a Senior Thyssen Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Since July 2016 she has been working on a new project funded by a Marsden grant, titled "A history of the 'epigenetic revolution'".Tatjana was trained as a physician in her hometown of Zagreb, Croatia, but then changed career to first study (M.Phil. and PhD) and then work, as a Wellcome Research Fellow, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. In 2008 Tatjana moved to New Zealand and took up a research fellowship at the Liggins Institute. Between 2008 and 2015 she worked in the Centre for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Disease on projects related to evolutionary medicine and developmental origins of health and disease, especially from the perspective of the history and philosophy of evolution and development. In 2015/2016 she was a Senior Thyssen Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Since July 2016 she has been working on a new project funded by a Marsden grant, titled "A history of the 'epigenetic revolution'".

Research Interest

History of science and medicine Evolutionary medicine Developmental origins of health and disease