Prof. Janina Tutkuvienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

TOPIC – The origins of auxology at Vilnius University 220 years ago: Andrzej Śniadecki’s insights into child development and their relevance today

Janina Tutkuvienė (MD, Ph.D.) is a doctor, anatomist and anthropologist, Head of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University). She also heads Vilnius University's Doctoral School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her research interests are interdisciplinary studies of the human body (growth and development, aging) in a changing environment, variations of body in health and disease, evolutionary medicine. She prepared growth guidelines and charts for Lithuanian children. Her current research interests include child growth and maturation, growth programming, physical status in relation to various clinical pathologies, secular trends in growth and maturation, body image and attractiveness, craniofacial research. Professor has published (together with co-authors) over 200 publications (including articles and chapters at the monographies, textbooks, also popular science publications). She has given numerous scientific presentations or keynote lectures at the Universities in various European and US countries. Professor was the supervisor or consultant of 14 doctoral students and currently she supervises four doctoral theses. Janina Tutkuviene has participated in several EC projects (STOP-II, AGIS, ISEC, Leonardo da Vinci, HORIZON 2020, Alliance4Life). She is an active member of many international scientific societies: vice-president and board member of the European Anthropological Association (EAA); member of the Society for Study of Human Biology (SSHB), the International Association of Human Biologists, the International Auxological Society, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). Janina Tutkuviene is one of the chief-editors of the journals Anthropologischer Anzeiger and HOMO, and editorial board member of Annals of Human Biology. Professor has a broad collaboration with scientists from many countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Switzerland, UK, US and the others).