Welcome to life as a PhD candidate! This course is designed for PhD candidates in the early stages of their trajectory (1–8 months) and helps you prepare for what lies ahead. You will receive practical information and tools to build a strong foundation, increase your sense of ownership, and take an…

Suzan Verberne is professor of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University and a member of the interdisciplinary research programme Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS).

Kiana is a PhD candidate at the Translational Data Science & AI Lab (TDS Lab). Her research focuses on developing NLP- and LLM-based data mining tools and contributing to an AI observatory platform to support federated access to health research data and to improve cross-border collaboration in cancer…

I am a PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) at Leiden University. I am interested in using algebra and coalgebra as tools for studying computer programs, in particular equational reasoning and automata theory, to work on problems like program equivalence.

Stewart is a PhD researcher in the Industrial Ecology department of CML who is working on developing life-cycle assessments for critical raw material recovery processes. Stewart started as a PhD researcher at the Industrial Ecology department of CML in September 2022.

Yee Man is a PhD candidate at the Translational Data Science & AI Lab (TDS Lab) that tackles both practical problems in healthcare practices and fundamental challenges in data science & AI.

Sanne Kellij is a PhD candidate at both the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University and the Sociology department of the Behavioural and Social Sciences faculty of Groningen University.

Passionate about underlying neurophysiological and cognitive processes, Lukas Kunz investigates the top-down influences of emotions and task instructions on early visual processing.

Kristell Penfornis is a PhD student at the Health, Medical and Neuropsychology unit of the Institute of Psychology. She researches the role of identity processes in smoking cessation and physical activity promotion.

Xiaochen Zheng is a cognitive neuroscientist focused on cognitive control processes in language and their connections to other domains of cognitions. Her current research is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) with a Veni grant (“The age of information overload: how do we control what we say?…

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On 24 January 2026, the Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) hosted its Annual Reconnect & Gala, bringing together alumni from across the world, current students, and faculty. The event celebrated shared values, connection, and purpose, focusing on ‘The great shifts in international…

Merlijn Veltman is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Roderick Geerts is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology, studying the illusive phenomenon of Romanisation in the Low Countries.

Bouke van der Meer is a Senior University Lecturer at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Yiya Chen is a Professor of Phonetics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She studies the sounds of languages with an interdisciplinary approach. The broad goal of her research is to understand the language structures and cognitive mechanisms that underlie speech and speech communication.…

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Renfei Bai is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Mert started as a PhD student in February 2023 under the supervision of Suzan Verberne and Frederik Situmeang (HvA). His research focuses on creating conversational agents that are adaptable to consumer psychology in low-resource domains. Mert has a BSc in Computer Engineering and MSc in Computer Vi…

André Antunes is a PhD student at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), as well as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow for the RELIANCE project. He received his MSc degree in Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, having conducted research at the interface of…

Martin Kroon is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Dr. Eliska Prochazkova uses neuroscientific methods to understand the biological systems that underlie human’s (pro)social behaviour, for example love, trust collaboration), with the aim to bring these findings towards application(s) in society.