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.

On Friday 5 February 2021 the online conference of the Dutch Platform of Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) took place. This conference served as a platform to bring young, enthusiastic and driven ELS scholars together in a research community and enable them to learn more and discuss about empirical research…

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…

Researchers from the Coherent Private Law research program have published an article in The Law Teacher about the state of the art of Empirical Legal Studies education in the Netherlands.

From February 2021 until August 2025, Lisa Ansems was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. She is currently affiliated with the institute as a guest researcher.

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…

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.

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.

Hanne Klapwijk is working as a PhD candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology at Leiden University.

Jeroen ten Voorde is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Leiden University and Academic Director of the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology.

My research focuses on the role of authenticity in science museums and on measuring the impact of science communication.

Sofia de Jong was appointed as a PhD candidate at the Department of Company Law, part of the Institute of Private Law, in November 2023. Her empirical legal research focuses on the effectiveness of Dutch company law as an instrument for influencing behaviour to achieve sustainability goals.

Dr Timmermans joined the Institute of Private Law's Department of Notarial Law as an Assistant Professor of Notarial Corporate Law on 1 October 2021.

Professor Henricus Joseph (Henk) Snijders is an emeritus professor of Civil Law and Civil Procedure at Leiden University. He was a full professor of Civil Law at this university from 1992 up to 2016, from 2007 both of Civil Law and of Civil Procedure.