She completed her Master of Arts (Magister Artium) with highest honors at the Free University of Berlin in 2005 and received her PhD with summa cum laude in 2008 under the supervision of Biba Teržan and Bernhard Hänsel.
[1] Anja Hellmuth received a scholarship (NaFöG) from the Berlin Senate, which supports young scientists for their doctorates.
As a scholarship holder from the German Archaeological Institute, Anja Hellmuth traveled the Mediterranean region for six months.
[3] The archaeological site of Monkodonja was excavated between 1998 and 2007 under the direction of Biba Teržan, Bernhard Hänsel and Kristina Mihovilić as an international project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
[4][5][6] As part of this scholarship, she was also a fellow at the Archaeological Institute of the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU).
After the end of the Feodor Lynen research fellowship, Anja Hellmuth returned to Berlin for a year as a Humboldt fellow in the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute.
In 2015, Anja Hellmuth completed her habilitation at the Department of Archeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and began teaching the history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East in the same year.
Under the direction of Hartmut Kühne, Anja Hellmuth Kramberger published a study on finds from the archaeological site Tell Sheikh Hamad in 2016 as a project funded by the German Research Foundation.
[8][9][10] As part of a Croatian-Korean joint project, Anja Hellmuth Kramberger led the excavations in the fortified hilltop settlement of Monbrodo in Istria between 2016 and 2018.
[13] Since 2020, Anja Hellmuth Kramberger has been a researcher and assistant professor at Alma Mater Europaea university of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Her research on prehistoric pottery from the fortified hilltop settlement of Monkodonja in Istria, published in 2017, can be seen as an important pilot study for the entire Adriatic region during the Early and Middle Bronze Age.
[21][22][23] Together with the Slovenian heritage specialist and museologist Verena Vidrih Perko, Anja Hellmuth Kramberger organized the first Erasmus Summer school on the topic Heritology between 8th and 12th of July 2024 at Alma Mater Europaea University which was under the patronage of former President of Slovenia Borut Pahor.
Her drawings of artifacts, excavation findings, reconstructions and interpretations of archaeological heritage appear in numerous scientific publications as well as in the first edition of the novel “Der Radreiter” by Alix Hänsel.
Monkodonja: istraživanje protourbanog naselja brončanog doba Istre = Forschungen zu einer protourbanen Siedlung der Bronzezeit Istriens.
Die Pfeilspitzen aus Tall Šeh Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu von der mittelassyrischen bis zur parthisch-römischen Zeit in ihrem westasiatischen und eurasischen Kontext.
ISBN 978-3-7749-3665-2 Hellmuth, Anja, Untersuchungen zu den sogenannten skythischen Pfeilspitzen aus der befestigten Höhensiedlung von Smolenice-Molpír.
Zu zwei besonderen Schalen mit verziertem Boden aus der Gradina von Monkodonja nahe Rovinj, Kroatien.
Von neolithischen ʺGroßen Mütternʺ bis zu sumerischen Königen: ein Überblick zum Nachweis des Transports auf dem Kopf in der Vor- und Frühgeschichte.
Bewaffnete Frauen vs. geschmückte Männer: zum Problem des Genderings von Grabbeigaben am Beispiel der frühskythischen Bestattungen am Mittleren Dnepr.
Čuvari hrane in pića: o antropomorfnim ukrasima na posudama iz ranog i srednjeg brončanog doba s gradine Monkodonja u Istri = Guardians of food and drink: about antrhopomorphic vessel decorations of the Early and Middle Bronze Age from the Monkodonja hillfort in Istria.