Zuzana Hofmanová
Group leader
Abteilung für Archäogenetik
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 511
E-Mail:
zuzana_hofmanova@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
After getting my education in anthropology, archaeology and human genetics at Masaryk University in Brno (2010) and Charles University in Prague (2012), I pursued my PhD at Institute of Anthropology, JGU Mainz, Germany (2016) in ancient genomics of European hunter-gatherers and early farmers. I was then awarded EMBO Longterm Fellowship to join the Computational Population Genetics Lab at University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In my projects there I investigated links between social structure and genetic patterns via novel computational approaches. In 2021 I established the Ancient DNA Research Team at Masaryk University in Brno primarily funded by EXPRO grant FORMOR and I became a group leader at the Genetic History Group in the Department of Archaeogenetics of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Publications
2026
Tchaikovsky, A., Tobias, B., Berner, M., Pany-Kucera, D., Ingrová, P., Hofmanová, Z., Scharl, T., Pohl, W., & Hann, S. (2026). Critical evaluation of internal and external calibration methods for accurate strontium isotope ratio determination. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1381: 344783. |
Open Access2025
Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H., King, B., Zlámalová, D., Traverso, L., Gnecchi Ruscone, G. A., Peltola, S., Salmela, E., Neumann, G. U., Radzeviciute, R., Ingrová, P., Liwoch, R., Wronka, I., Jurić, R., Hyrchała, A., Niezabitowska-Wiśniewska, B., Bartecki, B., Borowska, B., Dzieńkowski, T., Wołoszyn, M., Wojenka, M., Wilczyński, J., Kot, M., Müller, E., Orschiedt, J., Zariņa, G., Onkamo, P., Daim, F., Muhl, A., Schwarz, R., Majer, M., McCormick, M., Květina, J., Vida, T., Geary, P. J., Macháček, J., Šlaus, M., Meller, H., Pohl, W., Hofmanová, Z., & Krause, J. (2025). Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature, 646(8084), 384-393. |
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Klostermann, P., Lewis, M., Berner, M., Eggers, S., Tobias, B., Wang, K., Hofmanová, Z., & Pany‐Kucera, D. (2025). Bioarcheological perspectives on the timing of adolescence in rural Avar‐Age Austria, 7th–9th Centuries ce. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 188(1): e70123. |
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Hofmanová, Z., & Pohl, W. (2025). Two eighth-century communities near Vienna shared culture but not ancestries [A summary of: Wang, K. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5 (2025).] (advance online). Nature. |
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Wang, K. *., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D., Berner, M., Eggers, S., Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A., Zlámalová, D., Gretzinger, J., Ingrová, P., Rohrlach, A. B., Tuke, J., Traverso, L., Klostermann, P., Koger, R., Friedrich, R., Wiltschke-Schrotta, K., Kirchengast, S., Liccardo, S., Wabnitz, S., Vida, T., Geary, P. J., Daim, F., Pohl, W., Krause, J. *., & Hofmanová, Z. *. (2025). Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature, 638(8052), 1007-1014. |
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Gnecchi Ruscone, G. A., Rácz, Z., Liccardo, S., Lee, J., Huang, Y., Traverso, L., Radzeviciute, R., Hajnal, Z., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Gyuris, B., Mateovics-László, O., Bernert, Z., Szeniczey, T., Hajdu, T., Mészáros, B., Bálint, M., Mende, B. G., Miller, B., Samashev, Z., Childebayeva, A., Djansugurova, L., Geary, P., Ringbauer, H., Vida, T., Jeong, C., Pohl, W., Krause, J., & Hofmanová, Z. (2025). Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(9): e2418485122. |
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Schulz, I., Zlámalová, D., Reyna-Blanco, C. S., Morris, S., Gnecchi Ruscone, G. A., Eckel, R., Přichystalová, R., Ingrová, P., Dresler, P., Traverso, L., Hellenthal, G., Macháček, J., Wegmann, D., & Hofmanová, Z. (2025). Ancient genomes provide evidence of demographic shift to Slavic-associated groups in Moravia. Genome Biology, 26: 259. |
2024
Macháček, J., Sládek, V., Balcárková, A., Dresler, P., Hofmanová, Z., Ingrová, P., Košťál, M., Nosek, V., Prišťáková, M., Přichystalová, R., & Zlámalová, D. (2024). FORMOR project: analysis of the formation of complex societies in Early Medieval Moravia. Antiquity, 98(402): e34, pp. 1-8. |
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Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A. *., Rácz, Z., Samu, L., Szeniczey, T., Faragó, N., Knipper, C., Friedrich, R., Zlámalová, D., Traverso, L., Liccardo, S., Wabnitz, S., Popli, D. R., Wang, K., Radzeviciute, R., Gulyás, B., Koncz, I., Balogh, C., Lezsák, G. M., Mácsai, V., Bunbury, M. M. E., Spekker, O., le Roux, P., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mende, B. G., Colleran, H., Hajdu, T., Geary, P., Pohl, W., Vida, T., Krause, J. *., & Hofmanová, Z. *. (2024). Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature, 629(8011), 376-383. |
2023
Vyas, D. N., Koncz, I., Modi, A., Mende, B. G., Tian, Y., Francalacci, P., Lari, M., Vai, S., Straub, P., Gallina, Z., Szeniczey, T., Hajdu, T., Pejrani Baricco, L., Giostra, C., Radzeviciute, R., Hofmanová, Z., Évinger, S., Bernert, Z., Pohl, W., Caramelli, D., Vida, T., Geary, P. J., & Veeramah, K. R. (2023). Fine-scale sampling uncovers the complexity of migrations in 5th–6th century Pannonia. Current Biology, 33(18), 3951-3961, e1-e11. |
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Daim, F., Stadler, P., Pohl, W., Sauer, R., Blay, A., Eichert, S., Berner, M., Pany-Kucera, D., Tobias, B., Hofmanová, Z., Wang, K., Richter, K., Herbig, A., Hiss, A. N., & Wiltschke-Schrotta, K. (2023). Auf der Suche nach den feinen Unterschieden: Die awarischen Gräberfelder von Leobersdorf und Mödling – An der Goldenen Stiege. In H. Meller, J. Krause, W. Haak, & R. Risch ( |
2022
Marchi, N., Winkelbach, L., Schulz, I., Brami, M., Hofmanová, Z., Blöcher, J., Reyna-Blanco, C. S., Diekmann, Y., Thiéry, A., Kapopoulou, A., Link, V., Piuz, V., Kreutzer, S., Figarska, S. M., Ganiatsou, E., Pukaj, A., Struck, T. J., Gutenkunst, R. N., Karul, N., Gerritsen, F., Pechtl, J., Peters, J., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Lenneis, E., Teschler-Nicola, M., Triantaphyllou, S., Stefanović, S., Papageorgopoulou, C., Wegmann, D., Burger, J., & Excoffier, L. (2022). The genomic origins of the world’s first farmers. Cell, 185(11), 1842-1859.e13. |
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Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A. *., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Koncz, I., Csiky, G., Rácz, Z., Rohrlach, A. B., Brandt, G., Rohland, N., Csáky, V., Cheronet, O., Szeifert, B., Rácz, T. Á., Benedek, A., Bernert, Z., Berta, N., Czifra, S., Dani, J., Farkas, Z., Hága, T., Hajdu, T., Jászberényi, M., Kisjuhász, V., Kolozsi, B., Major, P., Marcsik, A., Kovacsóczy, B. N., Balogh, C., Lezsák, G. M., Ódor, J. G., Szelekovszky, M., Szeniczey, T., Tárnoki, J., Tóth, Z., Tutkovics, E. K., Mende, B. G., Geary, P., Pohl, W., Vida, T., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D., Hofmanová, Z., Jeong, C. *., & Krause, J. *. (2022). Ancient genomes reveal origin and rapid trans-Eurasian migration of 7th century Avar elites. Cell, 185(8), 1402-1413.e21. |
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Kulichová, I., Mouterde, M., Mokhtar, M. G., Diallo, I., Tříska, P., Diallo, Y. M., Hofmanová, Z., Poloni, E. S., & Černý, V. (2022). Demographic history was a formative mechanism of the genetic structure for the taste receptor TAS2R16 in human populations inhabiting Africa's Sahel/Savannah Belt. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 177(3), 540-555. |
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Traverso, L., Gnecchi Ruscone, G. A., Hiß, A. N., Herbig, A., Hofmanová, Z., & Krause, J. (2022). The origin and genetic history of the Avars. In Grenzüberschreitungen – Reiternomaden in Mitteleuropa, ihre östlichen Wurzeln und Verbindungen = Crossing boundaries – Mounted nomads in Central Europe, their eastern roots and connections. Halle (Saale): Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte. |