Irena Martinović Klarić holds a PhD is biology from University of Zagreb, MS in biomedical sciences form Northeastern University and BS in biology from Emmanuel College. She was a recipient of the doctoral scholarship for the UESCO/HUGO program and Wenner-Gren post-doctoral fellowship. As a biological anthropologist specializing in human population biology, she published in a wide range of genetic and anthropological journals and worked in research projects supported by Ministry of Science and Education, Croatian Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution and Royal Society. Dr. Martinović Klarić has taught courses in molecular anthropology and applied anthropology at University of Zagreb and since 2015 she is the assistant professor at Croatian Catholic University where she teaches general anthropology. In 2017, dr. Martinović Klarić was appointed as a Program Committee Member in Horizon 2020 for Health, demographic change and wellbeing. Currently, Dr. Martinović Klarić is Executive Director of Croatian Science Foundation.