Dr Tatjana Buklijas MD, MPhil, PhD

• Research Fellow, The Liggins Institute

• Affiliated Research Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Research interests

Evolutionary medicine; developmental origins of health and disease; history and philosophy of biology and medicine.

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Biography

Dr Tatjana Buklijas was trained as a physician in her hometown of Zagreb, Croatia, but then changed career to first study and then work, as a Wellcome Research Fellow, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her research focused on various topics in the history of anatomy, comparative anatomy and embryology. She moved to New Zealand in 2008, after eight years in the UK. At the Liggins Institute, Tatjana works as a research fellow in 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.

Contact details

The Liggins Institute

The University of Auckland

Private Bag 92019

Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Email ; Phone +64 9 9236442