Anna Kiss PhD is a research fellow at the Department of Science Policy and Scientometrics at the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and at the Pro-Sharp Research and Innovation Centre. She qualified as a dietitian and nutrition scientist at the University of Pécs and Semmelweis University.

She obtained her doctoral degree in food science in 2021 from the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In her doctoral dissertation she examined the social burden of obesity, the possibilities of its prevention, and the effectiveness of intervention programmes aimed at preventing childhood obesity. She also pursued doctoral studies at the Doctoral School of Education at ELTE PPK, where she defended her dissertation in 2025. In this second doctoral thesis she examined the role of knowledge mapping and knowledge discovery in communicating evidence-based medicine and health sciences for the purposes of sports education, through the field of sports nutrition.

Her main research areas are the promotion of sustainable nutrition (Tompa–Kiss–Lakner et al. 2024; Kiss et al. 2023); the effects of Hungarian school catering on children’s health (Kiss et al. 2019); the disease burden of obesity and the impact of prevention programmes on vulnerable groups (Kiss et al. 2020, 2019); and the development of research synthesis methods applied in health and nutrition sciences (Kiss et al. 2025, 2022; Soós–Kiss 2020).

Her research work has been recognised by several scholarships: she has repeatedly received the New National Excellence Scholarship (ÚNKP) as well as a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Catholic Academic Exchange Service. She regularly publishes her results in leading international journals such as the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, Current Developments in Nutrition and Nutrition Reviews.

She has gained research experience in numerous Hungarian and international projects. She was a co-researcher in several international projects supported by Kingston University London, aimed at examining gender differences in anti-doping research. Since 2018 she has been a member of the international research group “Structure and Taxonomy of Science” (MTA KIK – KU Leuven, ECOOM). Since 2024 she has been the principal investigator of research project no. NKFIH FK147390, supported under the OTKA basic research programme, which aims at the evidence-based complex analysis and optimisation of the dietary patterns of the Hungarian population for a sustainable, circular food chain. Since the autumn of 2025 she has been a researcher of the MTA-ELTE TK School and Health Research Group, established within the Public Education Development Research Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.