Collaborate With Us

We collaborate with qualified researchers, archivists, select individuals, and curators on important amber research.

External collaboration

Many researchers around the world have advanced imagining technologies and well equipped laboratories unlike what availability has in Kachin State. The Kachin Amber Research Institute seeks primary research partners to work to facilitate shared goals to benefit global understanding of natural history and creating linkage between Kachin State unique biodiversity as a globally significant locale worthy of visitation, environmental protection, and balanced with support of amber industry.

External collaborations have the opportunity to promote key areas of interest for the Kachin Amber Research Institute:

(1) Scientific Co-Authorship:

Working together with international researchers to publish scientific papers and reports revealing new discoveries and information about amber.

(2) Enhanced Access:

Enhanced access to scientifically important amber is an aim and goal, mission and commitment of the Kachin Amber Research Institute, to support worldwide access to natural history treasures with procurement methods which are humane, lawful and equitable to global standards.

(3) Sharing of knowledge:

The Kachin Amber Research Institute aims to facilitate bilateral information sharing to a collective, neutral and balanced scientific body. This includes fostering greater person-to-person links between remote Kachin society and major technological and research hubs worldwide. What is in our ambers? What does this mean for taxonomy? Please promote our land and why is important for people in other countries to know what is beneath.

(4) Mentorship and training:

KARI is a new institute far from metropolitan areas an emerging, Least Developed Economy in Southeast Asia. With more mentorship and person-to-person contact we have, the greater our opportunity for growth is to continue.

Our Partners

The Kachin Amber Research Institute is honoured to maintain active institutional relationships with some of the world's foremost natural history establishments. These affiliations support the exchange of scientific knowledge, access to advanced research infrastructure, and the sustained preservation of Myanmar's extraordinary amber heritage for the benefit of the global scholarly community.

  • Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

    Muséum National
    d'Histoire Naturelle

    National Museum of Natural History
    Paris, France

  • Musée national d'histoire naturelle, Luxembourg

    Musée national
    d'histoire naturelle

    National Museum of Natural History
    Luxembourg

  • Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

    Naturhistorisches
    Museum Wien

    Natural History Museum Vienna
    Vienna, Austria

Internal Collaboration - work with us

A placement at the Kachin Amber Research Institute means contributing to Myanmar's place in the world.

[(Myanmar Nationals Only)] Field Amber Research Assistant (Full Time Placement June 2026 - December 2026): Posting: Tanaing, Kachin State

Description: Must be proficient burmese speaker/writer and capable of understanding morphological characteristics of amber inclusions such as invertebrates and vertebrates.

650,000 ks + housing, travel, and other allowances.