If you need any help with your research or if you encounter problems during your PhD track, Leiden University provides several different types of support for PhD candidates. There are also groups, networks and communities in which you can meet other PhD candidates.

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Researcher and project coordinator, working mainly on Leiden Ranking and various European Union projects on research assessment, open science, organizational research, bibliometric data, gender analysis and data curation.

Gerhard Burger (M.Sc.) is a PhD student at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety

Kiki Spoelstra is a PhD candidate at the CoPAN lab of the unit Cognitive Psychology. Her research focusses on communication, socio-cognitive functioning, and emotional expression in felids. By including species that greatly differ in their degree of sociality, she aims to further investigate how social…

Emma Devereux is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

As a PhD candidate, your research demands precision, creativity, and intense focus. Yet, navigating people—supervisors, promotors, co-authors, committee members—can feel more complex than navigating your dataset or experiment. Maybe you’ve held back from raising a concern in a meeting. Or avoided negotiating…

From telescopes to science fiction: in just one semester, students with no background in physics or astronomy get to explore the universe. The first group of students started last month in the new minor Our Universe.

Michiel Hogerheijde is an Associate Professor at Leiden University. His research focuses on the origin of planetary systems such as our own Solar System and the systems that are now commonly found around other stars.

Huub Rottgering's main research interest is in observational studies of active galaxies, clusters and large scale structures in the distant universe with the aim of understanding their origin and evolution.

Liesbeth works as of 2019 as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. Before joining the Department, she worked as a Researcher/Research Fellow at Nivel (2008-2012 & 2015-2018); UMC Utrecht (2016); OLVG (2017-2018); and King’s College London, Dept of Palliative…

Do you practice public engagement? The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has just released a unique set of open-source materials designed to be used in public engagement training workshops.

Ionica Smeets is a communication scholar who wants to improve the interaction between science and society by studying how science communication works. The general public knows her for her popular science columns, blogs, books and television work. She has also written several books on science communi…

Martin is part of the ecotoxicology group, where he is working on the implementation of eDNA in ecotoxicological research as both a tool to study community effects, as well as a predictive tool to gain insight in the state of a community.

They are among the rarest and most extremely luminous stars in our universe: yellow hypergiants. Their spectacular eruptions have intrigued astronomers for decades, and now an international team led by Leiden’s emeritus professor Arnout van Genderen has gained new insights into the mechanisms behind…

Carlos Roos is a lecturer at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), where he teaches for the Minor Music Studies and the PRE-University Programme.

During her master's thesis, Nashanty Brunken (24) worked in a team with five other women. With this female team, they discovered the largest molecule so far identified in a disc. 'I have learned so much and because we are all women, it is incredibly empowering. It's very cool to see how far we've come…

Lara is researching culturally sensitive information provision in palliative care, focusing on patients who prefer non-disclosure or implicit communication about their diagnosis or prognosis, often from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Raymond Oonk has a Master of Science degree in Astronomy from Leiden University. He obtained his PhD there as well. Currently, he is holding a position as PostDoc at the Leiden Observatory and ASTRON. His work focusses on understanding the rol of cold atomic and molecular gas in the evolution of galaxies…

Around the world, Astronomy on Tap features games, talks, and quizzes by professional astronomers and educators in the informal setting of a local bar. Astronomy on Tap Leiden is organized by professional astronomers connected to Leiden Observatory. We meet the last (or second-to-last) Monday of the…

Around the world, Astronomy on Tap features games, talks, and quizzes by professional astronomers and educators in the informal setting of a local bar. Astronomy on Tap Leiden is organized by professional astronomers connected to Leiden Observatory. We meet the last (or second-to-last) Monday of the…

Astronomer Joseph Callingham and his team have observed for the first time a clear signal from a giant burst from a star outside our solar system. This would have a devastating impact on any unfortunate planet orbiting the star.

Around the world, Astronomy on Tap features games, talks, and quizzes by professional astronomers and educators in the informal setting of a local bar. Astronomy on Tap Leiden is organized by professional astronomers connected to Leiden Observatory. We meet the last (or second-to-last) Monday of the…

I suggest a systematic study into the influence of non-singing female companions on vocal learning in young birds as a proof-of-principle study into how non-imitative learning processes from the social environment influence the timing and content of vocal learning and thus drive the interface between…