Contact: lia.vidas@inantro.hr

Education, academic and scientific degrees
• 2021 – Postgraduate Doctoral Study in Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
• 2018-2021 – Master’s Study in Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
• 2015-2018 – Undergraduate Study in Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
• 2011-2015 – Gymnasium and Vocational School Juraj Dobrila, Pazin

Work experience
• 2021 – present: Research assistant, Institute for Anthropological Research, Center for Applied Bioanthropology

Scientific and professional work
Participation in projects
• Collaborator on the project “Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Istria and adjacent regions: Patterns of Late Pleistocene lifestyle (PREHISTRIA)”, project leader Ivor Janković, PhD
• Member of working groups 2 (cultural data) and 4 (from past to present) iNEAL Cost Action, project leader Ivor Janković, PhD
• Member of work package 5 (WP5, Biocultural Aspects of Archaeological Populations) within the internal project of the Institute “Applied bioanthropology in the study of ancient and contemporary populations in the Republic of Croatia” (BioAntroPop), project leader Luka Bočkor, PhD

Scientific and professional development
• Training School in Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry, May 2-10, 2022, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
• Short-term Scientific Mission “ZooMS identification of Middle Palaeolithic faunal assemblage of Romualdova Cave, Croatia”, iNEAL Cost Action
• iNEAL Cost Action Training School “Introduction to segmenting/visualizing image data from (micro)-CT scans”, June 6-10, 2022, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
• Erasmus + Traineeship in the academic year 2022/2023, October 3 to December 3, 2022, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
• iNEAL Cost Action Training School “Neanderthal and Homo sapiens material culture in Middle Paleolithic western Asia”, March 14-16, 2023, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
• iNEAL Cost Action Training School “Advancing into Palaeolithic Archaeology: Best practices in multidisciplinary studies”, September 27-29, 2023, UAM-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• Erasmus + Traineeship in the academic year 2023/2024, October 2 to December 21, 2023, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy

Fieldwork
• 2021 – 2023: deputy leader of archaeological research at the Abri Kontija 002 site
• 2020 – 2021: excavation of the Ljubićeva Cave site
• 2016 – 2021: systematic research of prehistoric archaeological sites: Gorjani – Kremenjača, Kaptol, Cave in Rebići, Nedelišće – Črečan, Šenkovec – Čestinka, Mukaba, Vela Spila, Lovinac – Cvituša, Krk – Ogrul; Roman sites: Okešinec – Sipčina, Uvala Blaz, Šiljar; Medieval sites: Stari Rakalj and Lopar – Novi Vinodolski; rescue excavations at sites Topusko, Gornji Kosinj, city of Krk, and Stari Grad (Hvar); international research at sites Breitenbach (Germany) and Badanj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Organizational activities
• Member of the organizing committee for the 10th International Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum, May 24-26, 2023, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
• Member of the organizing committee for the 1st Croatian Speleoarchaeological Conference, October 25-27, 2024, Nova Kršlja, Rakovica

Science popularization
• Co-author of the exhibition “Recent Archaeological Research on the Palaeolithic of Istria: The PREHISTRIA Project”, Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, February 2024

Scientific interests
Archaeology of hunter-gatherers, paleoproteomics, ZooMS analysis, archaeozoology, Late Pleistocene

List of publications
CroRis

Memberships in professional organizations and associations
• Member of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
• Member of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
• Member of the Italian Association of Archaeozoology (AIAZ)