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Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the…

A geographer and an Indonesianist by training, I have a broad range of research interests spanning the politics, history, geography and sociology of Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. Within Indonesia I have a special interest the island of Sulawesi. I have published on the subjects of nationalism,…

Onur Ada is a lecturer at International Studies.

Ugur Derin is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Riccardo graduated twice at the University of Trieste, with a BSc in 2014 in Biological Science and Technologies where he wrote his thesis in Plant Physiology on “Carbon starvation as a possible mechanism driving drought- induced tree die-off”, and a MSc in 2017 in Environmental Biology.

Dennis Hetterscheid tries to understand and mimic bioinorganic multi-electron processes that are relevant to our future energy infrastructure. The research of Dennis Hetterscheid is carried out both in the MCBIM and CASC research groups of Leiden University.

Michael Herzfeld is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Fransiskus Widiyarso doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

William Michael Schmidli is a U.S. foreign relations historian, and his research focuses on human rights, democracy promotion, and the significance of war and militarization in modern U.S. history. He completed his doctoral degree in the Department of History at Cornell University in 2010.

Chemical Biology is the discipline in which fundamental biological processes are studied by approaches intrinsically rooted in chemistry. The research of Herman Overkleeft is characterized by the design, synthesis and application of chemical probes in glycobiology and immunology.

How can we re-envision the construction of a national language from below, taking into account the diversity of voices involved in these reforms? Starting from the visit of a delegation of feminist teachers from Tianjin to the annual congress of the National Association for the Advancement of Education…

Irene Hadiprayitno is a University Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. She is a political scientist and human rights scholar by training. Her research journey encompasses a wide variety of topics from investigating participatory development, political…

Henk Schulte Nordholt (1953) is extraordinary professor of Indonesian history for a five-year period. He is Head of Research at KITLV. His main fields of research include Southeast Asian history, contemporary politics in Indonesia, political violence, and the anthropology of colonialism. He has a…

Surya Suryadi is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Gabe van Beijeren teaches courses in Classical Chinese and assists in teaching courses in Chinese history and Chinese philosophy and religion.

Cisca Hoogendijk is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Marijke Klokke is Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

The Schengen countries officially abolished border controls, but checks actually still exist. Maartje van der Woude has written a book about these veiled border controls: ‘The danger is that Schengen will have lots of borders, just not visible ones.’

Sylvestre Bonnet studies the (photo)chemistry of metal-based molecules in biological and biomimetic environment. By combining bioinorganic chemistry and photochemistry his group makes new light-activatable prodrugs for use as targeted anticancer agents with minimal side effects. Another part of the…