2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
Special interest
- The Kattekop again voted best childcare centre in South Holland
- Fourteen women professors take over the Senate Chamber
- Seven young Leiden anthropologists to be Leiden city photographers for a year (in Dutch)
- University's Wijnhaven building wins architectural prize
- Leiden University appoints extra 25 female professors
- Hortus botanicus first Dutch garden to receive accreditation from Botanic Garden Conservation International
- Gorlaeus lecture halls: biggest solar panel roof in Leiden
- Four Leideners on Indonesian postage stamps (in Dutch)
Ewine van Dishoeck received most honours
Just as last year, one female scholar has received more awards than any other: astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck. In Norway she received the prestigious Kavli Prize and in the United States the James Craig Watson Medal 2018 from the American National Academy of Sciences. She was also appointed to the Board of Trustees of the famous Institute for Advanced Study in the US, and in the Netherlands she became an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society.
International prizes, scholarships and awards
EU subsidies
ERC Advanced Grant
- Carsten de Dreu - Institute of Psychology
ERC Consolidator Grant
- Simcha Jong Kon Chin - Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
ERC Starting Grant
- Mariska Kret - Institute of Psychology
- Geeske Langejans - Faculty of Archaeology
- Sarah de Rijcke - Centre for Science and Technology Studies
- Reinout van Weeren - Leiden Observatory
- Ben Wielstra - Leiden Institute of Biology
Marie Curie grant
- Rosaleen March (CML) – Remote sensing to model spatiotemporal distribution of functional diversity in the tundra
- Marius Cautun (STRW) – Dancing with giants: dynamics of dwarf satellite galaxies
- Martin Baaske (LION) – Nanoscale thermo optical sensing
- Alessandro Sonnenfeld (STRW) – Accurate halo masses in the precision cosmology era
- Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh (CML) – Nanomaterials: Role of particles size, shape and surface coating
European Asylum Support Office
- Dimiter Toshkov, Alexandre Afonso, Olaf van Vliet, and Zouheir El-Sahli commissioned to conduct migration study by the European Asylum Support Office - Public Administration/ Department of Economics at the Leiden Law School
Erasmus-Plus Subsidy
- Jan Slikkerveer - Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Programme (LEAD)
International awards
Appointments
- Ewine van Dishoeck joins Board of Trustees Institute for Advanced Study in the US - Leiden Observatory
- Frans de Ruiter appointed Honorary Member of the European Festivals Association - Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
- Mariëlle Bruning member of the Council of Europe's Expert Group on Violence towards Children - Institute of Private Law
- Ton Liefaard appointed member of the Children’s Rights European Academic Network Steering Group - Institute of Private Law
- Rebekah Tromble appointed to Social Science One Europe Advisory Group - Institute of Political Science
- Maartje van der Woude Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley - Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
- Maartje van der Woude appointed Associate Director of the Border Criminologies Network - Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology and Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
- Marc Koper new President of the International Society of Electrochemistry - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Nicholas Vrousalis appointed EURIAS fellow at the University of Aarhus - Institute of Political Science
- Laura Heimen and Sylvie Noordermeer selected for Oncode network of cancer researchers - Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research resp. Medicine/LUMC, human genetics
Prizes and grants
- Ewine van Dishoeck wins Kavli prize for astrophysics - Leiden Observatory
- Ewine van Dishoeck receives American prize for leading role in astrochemistry - Leiden Observatory
- Humboldt research award for Frank den Hollander - Mathematical Institute
- Bernard Steunenberg's MOOC on EU policy and implementation: making Europe work!' among the top online courses - Institute for Public Administration
- Eric De Brabandere and two Swedish colleagues receive subsidy from the Swedish Research Council - Institute of Private Law
- Liesbeth Van Vliet awarded grant for Women in Science - Institute of Psychology (in Dutch)
- Aleksandrina Skvortsova and Stefanie Meeuwis receive awards from the American Psychosomatic Society - Institute of Psychology
- Wessel Kraaij jointly wins the Mark Everingham prize for TRECVid - Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
- Winnie Gebhardt awarded Honorary Fellowship from the European Health Psychology Society - Institute of Psychology
- Mariska Kret receives grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation - Institute of Psychology (in Dutch)
- Shuai Guo wins International Insolvency Institute’s 2018 Prize - Institute of Private Law
- Roland van der Veen and co-author write one of the best maths books of 2017 and receive the MAA Beckenbach Book Prize - Mathematical Institute
- Scott Waitukaitus wins FYSICA Young Speakers Contest - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Thomas Bakkum and Tom van der Wel win poster awards at EMBL Chemical Biology Conference - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Kim de Jong receives 'Outstanding early career award' from the Society for Psychotherapy Research - Institute of Psychology (in Dutch)
- Eiko Fried chosen as 'rising star' by the Society for Psychotherapy Research - Institute of Psychology (in Dutch)
- Leandro Mancano wins 2018 Common Market Law Review prize for young academics - Institute ofPublic Law
- Roxanne Kieltyka elected as one of Talented 12 chemists - Leiden Institute for Chemistry
- AstroEDU among world's top 100 teaching innovations - Leiden Observatory
- Bert Frausen wins Harold D. Lasswell Prize for publication - Institute for Public Administration
- Another gold for botanical artist Esmée Winkel - Hortus botanicus
Research/presentation on behalf of European institutions
- Yannick van den Brink presents in Brussels about EU Directive on children in criminal proceedings - Institute for Private Law
- Psychologists test societal acceptance of underground storage of CO2 - Institute of Psychology
- Melanie Fink and Jorrit Rijpma present advice to the EU Frontex Consultative Forum in Warsaw - Institute of Public Law
Honorary Doctorate
- Carlo Beenakker receives Honorary Doctorate from the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kiev, Ukraine - Leiden Institute of Physics
National prizes, subsidies and grants
Spinoza winners
- Carsten de Dreu - Institute of Psychology
- Marileen Dogterom, professor in Delft, and affiliated to Leiden Univeirsity as Medical Delta professor (LDE) - Leiden Institute of Physics
More NWO
NWO - VICI
VICIs for three Leiden researchers:
- Mario van der Stelt - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Fijs van Leeuwen - Medicine, LUMC
- Roeland Merks - Mathematical Institute (part-time professor, also works at CWI, Natitonal Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science)
NWO - VIDI
VIDIs for nine Leiden researchers
- Alexandre Afonso - Institute of Public Administration
- Lucia Clemens Daxinger - Medicine/LUMC, human genetics
- Rogier Creemers - Institute for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Law
- Daniel Curtis - Institute of History
- Irene Groot - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Laura Heitman - Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research
- Mariska Kret - Institute of Psychology
- Stefan Semrau - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Nicolas Vrousalis - Institute of Political Science
NWO - VENI
Veni subsidies for 16 Leiden researchers:
- Evin Aktar - Institute of Psychology
- Wyger Brink - Medicine/LUMC, radiology
- Ece Ercan - Medicine/LUMC, radiology
- Jörg Gross - Institute of Psychology
- Marian Hickendorff - Institute of Education and Child Studies
- Marleen Kunneman - Medicine/LUMC, medical decision-making
- Sven Mieog - Medicine/LUMC, surgery
- Sanneke van Rooden - Medicine/LUMC, radiology
- Giovanni Rosotti - Leiden Observatory
- Rachel Schats - Faculty of Archaeology
- Laura Steenbergen - Institute of Psychology
- Carolien Stolte - Institute of History
- Marleen Termeer - Faculty of Archaeology
- Sanne van Veluw - Medicine/LUMC, radiology and neurosciences
- Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh - Institute of Public Law
- Jeroen Wolbers - Institute for Security and Global Affairs
NWO - Free competition in the Humanities
- Judith Pollmann - Institute for History (in Dutch)
- Gijsbert Rutten - Centre for Linguistics
- Albert de Jong - Centre for the Arts in Society
Subsidies for consortia
- KM3NeT neutrino telescope receives 12.7 million from NWO - Leiden Institute of Physics
- 17 mln subsidy to develop electron microscopy in the Netherlands - Medicine/LUMC, molecular cell biology, and the Leiden Institute of Biology (NeCEN)
- Leiden involved in major subsidy for X-omics initiative - Medicine/LUMC, metabolics
- Leiden inivolved in major subsidy for development of X-ray telescope - Leiden Observatory
- Leiden involved in three out of five Physics Free Programme grants
Top subsidies
- Marc Koper and Marcel Rost - Leiden Institute of Physics resp. Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Huub de Groot and Hermen Overkleeft – Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Frank den Hollander - Mathematical Institute (in Dutch)
ECHO subsidies
- John van Noort - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Marcelles Ubbink - Leiden Institute of Chemistry (in Dutch)
Other NWO awards
- TTW subsidy for Marc Koper - Leiden Institute of Physics (in Dutch)
- Physics Project space subsidy for Prof. J. Aarts and Dr V.V. Cheianov - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Four young Leiden researchers receive NWO research talent grant. They are: Eva Schmidt - Institute of Private Law; Elise Kortink - Institute of Psychology; Sophie Starrenburg - Institute of Private Law; Fatma Çapkurt – Institute of Public Law (in Dutch)
- Tjerk Oosterkamp receives Top Sector High Tech Systems and Materials subsidy - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Aspasia grant for Joanita Vroom - Faculty of Archaeology
- Ludo Juurlink receives subsidy for collaborative project on sustainable materials - Leids Institute of Chemistry (in Dutch)
- Dennis Hetterscheid participates in NWO research on sustainable materials - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- Lotte van Dillen starts the European collaborative project Work Hard, Play Hard - Institute for Psychology
- Tom Louwerse awarded NWO ORA grant for research on political representation - Institute of Political Science
- Carolien Rieffe starts LDE research on autism in students - Institute for Psychology
- John van Noort receives NWO ECHO subsidy for research on fickle RNA production - Leiden Institute of Physics
- NWO Rubicon for Anouk Goemans - Institute for Family and Child Education (in Dutch)
- Marleen Dekker awarded Westerdijk Talent Scheme subsidy - African Studies Centre
- NWO subsidy for semantic research by Wataru Uegaki - Institute for Area Studies and Leiden Universitey Institute for Linguistics
- Marte Knigge and Willem van Boom receive subsidy for study on empiric research in law - Institute for Private Law (in Dutch)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- Andrea Evers receives a subsidy to invite a guest lecturer - Institute for Psychology
The KNAW has appointed five new Leiden members:
- Peter ten Dijke - Medicine/LUMC, molecular cell biology
- Judi Mesman - Leiden University College The Hague and Institute for Family and Child Studies
- Michel Orrit - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Hermen Overkleeft - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Judith Pollmann - Institute for History
And more...
- Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Sandy Overgaauw each receive a Sara van Dam grant - Institute of Psychology
- Corinne Hofman wins Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship from NIAS and KNAW - Faculty of Archaeology
- Peers choose Eveline Crone for Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijze (KNAW) - Institute of Psychology
Appointments, prizes and other awards
Appointments
- Wim van Saarloos takes office as president of KNAW - Leiden Institute of Physics
- Ineke Sluiter appointed vice-president of KNAW - Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
- Ewine van Dishoeck appointed honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society - Leiden Observatory
- Tanja Masson-Zwaan appointed honorary member of the Netherlands Space Society - Institute of Public Law
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer receives honorary title of Minister of State - Institute for Security and Governance Affairs
- Niels Stensen Fellowship awarded to Vestert Borger - Institute of Public Law
- First members of Leiden Young Academy Leiden appointed for five years. They are: Tom Louwerse (chair) - Institute of Political Science; Helen Pluut (vice-chair) - Faculty of Law, Dept of Business Sciences; Sarah Schrader - Archaeology; Olaf van Vliet - Faculty of Law, Dept. of Economics and Institute of Public Administration; Joris Larik - Leiden University College The Hague; Sarah Giest - Institute of Public Administration; Martin Lipman - Institute for Philosophy; Anouk Goemans - Institute of Education and Child Studies; Annemarie Samuels - Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Psychology; Stéphanie van der Pas - Mathematical Institute; Yamila Miguel - Leiden Observatory; Noel de Miranda - Medicine/LUMC, pathology, and Maaike van der Putten - Medicine/LUMC, muscular dystrophy
- Joost Westerweel in soundingboard group for Review of VNG referendum model - Institute of Public Law
- Ymre Schuurmans president of WODC committee on Big Data - Institute of Public Law
- Mark Klaassen appointed to the Advisory Committee on Refugee Affairs - Institute of Public Law
- Academy committee headed by Nico Schrijver advises on Freedom of Academic Practice in the Netherlands - Institute of Public Law
- Luuk van Middelaar appointed member of Advisory Committee on International Issues - Institute of Public Law
- Hanneke Bennaars and Ton Mertens appointed members of Committee on the Regulation of future work - Institute of Public Law, resp. Institute of Tax Law and Economics
- Willemien den Ouden member of Council for Responsive Government - Institute of Public Law
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Mark Klaassen appointed to the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs
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Marcel Pheijffer appointed member of the Supervisory Committee on political party finances - Institute of Tax Law and Economics
- Four young legal experts acquire Meijers PhD position in 2018. They are: Heleen van Amerongen, Barbora Budinská and Kristel van Kruisbergen - Institute of Public Law; Ilya Kokorin - Institute of Private Law
Prizes, grants and subsidies
- Reinbert de Leeuw awarded oeuvre prize by Prins Bernhard Culture Fund
- Herman Paul wins silver in KHMW essay competition - Institute of History (in Dutch)
- Coen Maas wins Stevens Prize 2017 for writing in an accessible way about difficult fiscal issues - Institute for Tax Law and Economics
- FSW Grassroots subsidies for innovative educatioal projects to Jan Jansen, Simone de Boer, Maike Lolkema and Warner Tjon Sie Fat - Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology; Lenny van Rosmalen and Lotte van der Pol - Institute of Education and Child Studies; Pascal Haazebroek & Kerwin Olfers - Instituteof Psychology.
- More FSW Grassroot, and Grass shoot subsidies. The winning lecturers: Harold Nefs, Sarah Plukaard and Ruth Zandvliet; Carlijn Bergwerff; Elise Swart and Marga Sikkema-de Jong (Grassroots); Daisy Smeets (Grass shoot) - all at the Institute of Education and Child Studies; Joanne Mouthaan and Vivan Kraaij - Institute of Psychology; Mark Westmoreland, Metje Postma and Silke van Diemen - Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology
- Stéphanie van der Pas receives Willem R. van Zwet Award - Mathematical Institute
- Mazène Hochane and Xueying Fan win LION Image Award 2018 - Leiden Institute for Physics
- Andreas Burger wins prize for best article - Institute of Psychology
- Eric De Brabandere receives grant from municipality of The Hague to set up Investment Treaty Arbitration databank - Institute of Private Law
- City biologist Menno Schilthuizen wins Jan Wolkers Prijze 2018 - Leiden Institute of Biology
- Pyramid Prize for Peter Burger - Leiden University Institute of Linguistics (in English)
- Alke Metselaar wins AB Annotation Prize 2017 - Institute of Public Law (in English)
- BBMRI-Omics, with researcher Bas Heijmans, wins Netherlands Data Prize 2018 - Medicine/LUMC, biomedical data science
- Gineke Wiggers receives grant for ACM SIGIR Conference - Institute for the Interdisciplinary study of the Law
- Marga Sikkema-de Jong receives research grant from municipality of Leiden - Institute of Family and Child Studies
- Olga van Marion and Tim Vergeer receive gold medal from Teylers Foundation - Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (in Dutch)
- LUF/Gratama research grant for Gisela Hirschmann and Niels van Doesum - Institute of Political Science resp. Institute of Psychology; Jörg Gross - Institute of Psychology; Marret Noorderwier - Institute of Psychology; erena Ly - Institute of Psychology; Fatemeh (Simin) Tabassi Mofrad - Institute of Psychology (in Dutch)
- Leiden University Fund awards thirty grants
- Coen van Hasselt receives subsidy from Elise Mathilde Foundation - Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research
- Maartje van der Woude receives Heineken Young Scientist Award - Institute for Criminal Law and Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
- Bart Verkuil best psychology blogger - Institute of Psychology
- Maartje van der Woude receives research grant from national police - Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
- Alireza Mashaghi Tabari wins C.J. Kok Public Prize, making him Discoverer of the Year - Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research
- KWF subsdy for Marieke Griffioen and Anne Stiggelbout - Medicine/LUMC, haematology resp. Medical Decision-making (in Dutch)
- Marian Hickendorff receives NRO subsidy for research on arithmetic in junior education - Institute of Family and Child Studies
- Million euro subsidy for future-proof salad types - Leiden Institute of Biology
- PhD candidates vote Wilfried Admiraal best supervisor - Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching
- Paul van der Heijden awarded subsidy to build Business & Human Rights databank - Institute of Public Law
- Eight researchers at Law School receive Meijers incentive prize. They are: Patrick van Berlo (Criminal Justice programme); Thijs Beumers (Coherent Private Law programme); Alexander Mayer-Rieckh (programme in Exploring the Frontiers of International Law); Helena Uršič (programme on the Effective protection of fundamental rights in a pluralist world); Tirza Cramwinckel (Limits of Tax Sovereignty programme); Emile Cammeraat (Reform of Social Regulation programme); Tom Herrenberg (programme on The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Law & Governance in a World of multilevel jurisdictions); Ilektra Antonaki (programme on The Progression of EU law: Accommodating change and upholding value). (In Dutch).
- Eric Eliel receives RISE prize for gender equality - Leiden Institute of Physics
- South Holland Culture Prize 2018 awarded to Tom Hazenberg - Faculty of Archaeology (in Dutch)
- Marc Cleiren wins Henk Dekker Award for Teaching Innovation - Honours College of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Advice to government and related institutions
- Research report on pre-trial detention of juveniles presented to Scientific Research and Documentation Centre
- Scientists present research agenda to ministers at NeuroLabNL - Institute of Psychology
- Rebekah Tromble to lead Twitter-funded research team on online discussions - Institute of Political Science
- Mariëlle Bruning speaks at hearing of permanent Cabinet committee on Justice and Security - Institute of Private Law
- Geerten Boogaard researches differentiation in social domain, on behalf of CDA Scientific Policy Office - Institute of Public Law
- Koen Caminada advises Cabinet on accuracy of tax assessments - Institute for Tax Law and Economics
- Luuk van Middelaar gives an address to the State Committee on the Parliamentary System - Institute of Public Law (in Dutch)
- Gerrard Boot and Hanneke Bennaars advise Minister Koolmees on criteria for relationship of authority - Institute of Public Law (in Dutch)
- First evaluation of Youth Act with Leiden legal experts - Institute of Private Law (in Dutch)
- Cabinet asks Leiden legal experts for advice on legal impediments for municipalities related to Right to Challenge - Faculty of Law (in Dutch)
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AFM consults Matthias Haentjens and Jouke Tegelaar on European dimension of judicial review of financial supervision - Institute of Private Law
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Geerten Boogaard invited to expert meeting on withdrawal of consultative referendum - Institute of Public Law (in Dutch)
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Leiden legal experts examine position of under-age children in civil process - Institute of Private Law (in Dutch)
Award-winning PhDs (national and international)
- Adrian Hamers receives Christiaan Huygens Science Prize for dissertation - Leiden observatory (in Dutch)
- Fransje Molenaar wins Political Science annual award 2018 - Institute of Political Science
- Johannes Bijlsma wins Modderman Prize 2018 - Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology (in Dutch)
- Anne Petterson wins Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize - Institute for History (in English)
- Olga van Marion and Tim Vergeer receive Gold Medal from Teylers Foundation - Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (in Dutch)
- Sylvia van Beugen wins prize for best 'health thesis' from Association for Researchers in Psychology and Health - Institute of Psychology
- PhD candidate Lynette Janssen receives Fulbright scholarship - Institute of Private Law (in Dutch)
- Dirk Broekhuijsen wins dissertation prize from Association for Fiscal Studies - Institute for Tax Law and Economics (in Dutch)
- Jeroen Romeijn wins Best Paper Award at ECPR 2018 - Institute of Public Administration
- Djordjo Milovic wins Stieltjes Prize - Mathematical Institute
- Tijn Schouten wrote best article - Institute of Psychology
- Dissertation by Yannick van den Brink wins FJR Prize 2018 - Institute of Private Law
- Stéphanie van der Pas wins C.J. Kok Jury Prize for best dissertation - Mathematical Institute
Royal honours
- Prof. V. Halberstadt (second royal honour) - Institute o Tax Law and Economics
- Prof. P.T. de Zeeuw - Leiden Observatory
- Prof. D. van Delft - Faculty of Science/ Director Boerhaave Museum (in Dutch)
- Prof. A.F. Cohen - LUMC, Clinical Pharmacology, and Director of the Centre for Human Drug Research (in Dutch)
- Prof. R.A.C. Roos - Medicine/LUMC, Neurology (in Dutch)
- Prof. W.E. Fibbe - Medicine/LUMC, Haematology and Stem Cell Biolody (in Dutch)
- Prof. J.M. Otto - Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law and Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (in Dutch)
- Prof. A. Aarts - Leiden Institute of Physics
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Prof. R.C. van der Mast - Medicine/LUMC, Geriatrics (in Dutch)
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Prof. E.J. Zürcher - Institute for Area Studies
- Prof. R.B. Andeweg - Institute for Political Science (in Dutch)
- H. van Rooijen - University Sports Centre (in Dutch)
- N. Bavelaar - Institute of Biology (in Dutch)
Student prizes and awards
Leiden University wants students to do more than just study, and encourages them to develop in other ways as well. That is why this year for the first time a certificate was awarded to a student who has done a year of administrative work: master's student of History Jasper de Vries was an assessor of the Local Chamber of Associations (PKvV) in Leiden for one year. All students who did a year of administrative activities last year will receive a certificate, and from now on a certificate will be awarded to all students who have completed a year of administrative responsibilities.
Award-winning master's research
- LUF International Study Fund Prize 2018 for Cosmopolis student Guanmian Xu - Cosmopolis Advanced (in Dutch)
- Unilever Research Prize for master's student Lukas Kiefer - Biology
- Wouter Kuin wins SER Thesis Prize 2018 - Public Administration
- Vincent Bakker wins second prize in Leiden University Thesis Prize competition - Public Administration and Law
- Igor Djakovic receives Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholarship - Archaeology
- Master-Speckmann Prize for best thesis goes to Louise Nisbet - Cultural Anthropology
- Marit Buddenbaum wins Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Prize 2018 - Child Law
- Louise Verboeket wins faculty Jongbloed thesis prize 2016-2017 and the first Leiden University Thesis Prize - Constitutional and Administrative Law
- Christianne Groeneveldt wins KNMP Student Prize - BioPharmaceutical Sciences (in Dutch)
- Second Prize goes to Jasper van Ittersum – Civil Law (in Dutch)
- Jip Barreveld wins Fruin Prize 2018 - History (in Dutch)
- Janneke Fruin-Helb Grant for best LISF research grant application goes to Tim Rietbergen - Biology (in Dutch)
- Mariska Wesselo wins national thesis prize with her research on'stories and sums' - Education and Child Studies (in Dutch)
- Gascaria Thesis Prize for Adrienne Gast - Criminal and Procedural Law (in Dutch)
- Honourable mention for LISF grant application for Joris Carmiggelt - Physics
- Guanmian Xu wins LISF prize for best research report - History (in Dutch)
- Honourable mention for LISF research report for Marianne van der Vaart - Medicine (in Dutch)
- Netherlands Legal Journal selects and publishes 'best thesis' by Hedwig Peperkamp - Civil Law (in Dutch)
- Alexandra Marcoci and Elise Kortink wrote the best master's thesis and the best research master's thesis - Psychology
- Megan Griffiths' master's thesis wins Theodore Roosevelt American History Award - North American Studies
And also...
- iGEM Leiden student team wins gold in Boston. The 13-man team comprised students from Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Science and Technology, Life Science and Technology, Biotechnology & Science-Based Business, and Psychology
- Naud van Doorn chosen as ‘best student judge’ European Employment Law - Employment Law
- Dominique Brommers, Lilly Brouwer, Annemiek Buijze and Kyra van Meijgaarden write best report Fieldwork NL - Cultural Anthropology
- Leiden Law students in European Law Moot Court Competition - Master's in European Law and Advanced Master's on European and International Business Law
- Pim Spelier and Bob Zwetsloot win medals for smart proofs for elegant problems - Mathematics
- Lennart Verheuvel wins National Competition 2018 for best closing speech - Criminal and Procedural Law (in Dutch)
- Nashwan Sabti receives Casimir Prize for best student of technical physics in Leiden - Astronomy
- Good year for Leiden Law students in European Law Moot Court Competition - Master's in European Law and Advanced Master's in European and International Business Law
- Bachelor's student Jinne Samsom wins Van den Berg Thesis Prize 2018 - Political Science (in Dutch)
- Marguérite Elias wins Moot Court cup - International Business Law (in Dutch)
- Kluiters Prize for eighteen excellent students - Minor in Intelligence Studies
- Eric Verdult wins Moot Court cup - Civil Law (in Dutch)
- Amber Klompmaker and Imogen Liu selected to take part in workshop in US - Public Administration resp. Political Science and Public Administration
Also interesting
- Rowing club Asopos De Vliet wins Leiden Susainability Prize for Associations - (in Dutch)
- Team Lyssna wins Leiden Dragon's Den pitch competition. The team comprised Bas Rensen, Rik Edelenbosch, Lilian van Leeuwen and Wessel Nagelgast - Purlib Administration (3x) resp. Law (in Dutch)
- Silver for Rosalin Kuiper at sailing world championship for students – Psychology (in Dutch)
- Terra Study association Terra wins Van Bergen Prize for promoting contact between Dutch and international students - Faculty of Archaeology
- Leiden master's student Lisa van der Geest wins two skating marathons in three days - Institute of Public Law
- Psychology student Elise Qiu is also Dutch billiards champion - Institute of Psychology (in Dutch)
University teaching prizes and other awards
Best lecturer 2018
- Roeland Dirks wins LUS Teaching Prize for best lecture 2018 - Medicine/LUMC, cell and chemical biology
Faculty and institutional teaching prizes
- Olga van Marion receives Teaching Prize for best lecturer at Faculty of Humanities - Dutch Studies
- Medicine/LUMC Teaching Prize for Sandra van Dijk & colleagues - Master's specialisation in Vitality and Ageing (in Dutch)
- Christine Espin best lecturer Social and Behavioural Sciences - Child and Education Studies (in Dutch)
- Faculty of Science Teaching Prize goes to Kristian Rietveld - Computer Science
- Teaching prizes for Prof. Bart Krans and Bo Terpstra - Civil Procedural Law, and Economics (in Dutch)
- Margot van der Doef best lecturer at Psychology - Institute of Psychology
And...
First ten lecturers receive the Senior Teaching Qualification. They are Bart Barendregt - Institute of Cultural Anthropoliogy and Development Sociology; Lindsay Black - Institute for Area Studies; Marcello Bonsangue - Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science; Thijs Bosker, Leiden University College The Hague and Leiden Centre for Environmental Science; Marjo de Graauw - Centre for Academic Drug Research; Simone van der Hof - Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law; Egbert Koops - Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law; Joanne Mol - Faculty of Archaeology; Marlies Reinders - Medicine/LUMC, Internal Medicine, and Niels van Willigen, Institute of Political Science.
Prizes for support and administrative staff / student activitiest
- Astronomer and science communicator Pedro Russo wins K.J. Cath Prize - Leiden Observatory
- Hetty Simonis receives award from Psychology for administrative staff - Institute of Psychology
Honorary doctorate
- Prof. A. Héritier, professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence
University Medal
University Medal awarded to Marianne Wanders - Administration and Central Services
NB: If you are aware of any omissions, please inform the news editors via nieuws@leidenuniv.nl. We will be happy to add new awards to the list.