He is also a collaborative researcher at the Centre of Advanced Studies at Keio University. His research interests focus on the cultural impact of lifestyle diseases in contemporary Japan. He has been conducting anthropological research on the embodied cultural landscapes of technoscience and medicine with a special focus on diabetes and the production of knowledges that surround it from eating habits in regional Japan to global circuits of clinical research. Mohacsi's more recent projects include a comparative study of the use and collection of medicinal herbs in Vietnam and Japan.