From 25–28 August 2026, Budapest hosted the 24th Congress of the European Anthropological Association (EAA), which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The international conference, organised primarily by the Department of Biological Anthropology at the Faculty of Science of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), featured a presentation by Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, who was invited to share the preliminary results of her Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Project investigating the population of Roman Pannonia. Krisztián Kiss, a member of the research group, presented a poster on the anthropological and paleoradiological investigations of human remains from an archaeological site studied within the project.

For the second time, an international researcher will have the opportunity to join the MTA-ELTE RCH Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Group through their project after receiving funding through the Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. Following epigenetics researcher Chen Kozulin, archaeogeneticist Ana Arzelier was also successful in securing funding under the programme’s second call with her research proposal aimed at tracing the Celtic genetic heritage.

Within the framework of the the Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme – after receiving a successful application for Call 1 – the "Lendület" Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Group is currently accepting applications for Call 2 from postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, who would like to work on a Roman period bioarchaeology project for 1–2,5 years in Budapest, between 2026 and 2028.

Researchers from the MTA-RCH Momentum Bioarchaeolgy Research Group gave two presentations on their findings at the conference, held in Zagreb from 31 August to 2 September 2025.

Molecular biologist Chen Kozulin will begin work as a member of the MTA-RCH Momentum Bioarchaeolgy Research Group in January 2026, after successfully applying for the Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. Bringing expertise with cutting-edge molecular biology technologies and biomedical industry experience, Chen’s next challenge will venture into the realm of complex bioinformatic analyses.

Within the framework of the Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme the "Lendület" Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Group is currently accepting applications from postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, who would like to work on a Roman period bioarchaeology project for 1–3 years in Budapest, between 2026 and 2028.