Staff members at Leiden University and LUMC: want to meet your professional peers across Europe for a unique job-shadowing experience? If so, apply by 16 June for the 2025 edition of the Una Europa Live My Life programme! Successful applicants will be paired with a colleague from another European university.…

Tycho van Tartwijk is currently investigating the role that economic inequality plays in cooperation and conflict in within- and between-group settings. Specifically, he is interested in the way in which inequality affects discrimination (parochialism) in cooperation and conflict.

Edmund Frettingham is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Leiden University College. His primary research interests lie in security studies and religion in international politics, with particular focus on theories of security, approaches to the study of religion in international politics,…

Casper Wits is a University Lecturer in the Institute for Area Studies. His research focuses on postwar diplomatic and international history in East Asia, with a special interest in the development of Chinese and Japanse foreign policy and Sino-Japanese relations in this period. He also takes an interest…

Hirad Rezaiejoo is a lecturer of Political Science and International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.

Matthew DiGiuseppe is an associate professor of International Relations and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Institute of Political Science.

Michael Sampson is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science

Patrick Antenbrink participates as a PhD-candidate in the programme of the Dual PhD Centre in The Hague. Thesis working title: 'Public-private cooperation in intelligence and the influence on public accountability’.

Rob de Wijk is Professor of International Relations at Leiden University. Besides that, he is also chairman of the National Security Think Tank (Denktank Nationale Veiligheid) and columnist for the national daily newpaper Trouw and monthly for Energiepodium.nl.

Adva Eichengreen (alias Eichengrün) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

Kai Hebel (DPhil, Oxford University) is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Dr. Hebel’s research interests include international security, diplomacy, international history, cultural studies and IR theory. He has published on a wide range of topics, including military intervention, the Cold…

John-Harmen Valk is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Fancy seeing how your job is done at a university abroad? Project Managers Christina Schlüpen and Jeannette de Wolf from the Leiden Institute of Chemistry did just that. They both spent a week shadowing a European colleague: one in Bologna and the other in Berlin. This was through the Una Europe alliance,…

Sem Grootscholten researched the impact of civil servants on political decision-making and the change in relations between public and private parties in the educational material industry as a result of changing laws.

Daniel Schade is a Lecturer in European Studies and International Relations at Leiden University. His research focuses on the European Union and its external relations regime, in particular.

I am a South African IR scholar whose research interest is questioning Western-centric narratives and making sense of international relations from the perspectives of the global South, particularly Africa. Before joining Leiden University in 2017, I was based at the University of Cape Town, where I…

Daniel C. Thomas is Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.

Babak RezaeeDaryakenari is associate professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.

Vineet Thakur is University Lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University.

Jue Wang is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Jue is a scholar of Chinese economy and Global Political Economy. With a regional focus on China, her areas of expertise include international political economy, development finance, international organisations, technology…

Acho Gerald Anji is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. His research project focuses on the Localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325: The Case of South West and North West Women’s Task Force, Cameroon. His supervisors are Prof. Joachim…

Densua Mumford is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Her research explores African international relations, on the one hand, and the politics of the internet and digital technologies, on the other. Her work today contributes to decolonising perspectives on international relations.

Alfred van Staden has been Professor of International Relations at Leiden University since 1980.

Marco Bronckers (1956) is Professor of WTO and EU law at Leiden University.

Tom Buitelaar is an Assistant Professor in the War, Peace & Justice program of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

Hilde van Meegdenburg is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.

Alyssa Akkerman is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Christward Gradenwitz is Lecturer in International Politics. He is also Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission the Netherlands.

Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies / Global History at the Leiden University Institute for History.

Dr. Niels van Willigen is an associate professor of international relations and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute of Political Science.

Nicolas Blarel is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.

Corinna Jentzsch is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.

Joris van de Riet is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence, where he is preparing a doctoral thesis on the relevance of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy to international law and international relations.

Rayyan Toutounji (also written as Tutunji), is psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist specializing in stress-related disorders such as depression and burnout. He has previously worked at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour where he investigated how neural responses to stress…

Giftedness among PhD candidates in academia manifests as a combination of intellectual, emotional, and social characteristics, sometimes leading to both advantages and challenges in their academic journey.

Matthew Frear is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of History. He teaches and supervises students on the BA International Studies, MA International Relations, BA Russian Studies, and MA Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. His main fields of research are Russian and Eurasian politics and international…

Neurodivergence, including ADHD, also occurs in academia and can be both a challenge and a strength for PhD candidates. Individuals with ADHD may experience difficulties with time management and organisation, which can impact academic performance and productivity, while others thrive due to their deep…

Raafat Shamieh is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.

On 18 January 2025, the Annual Reconnect & Gala of the Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) celebrated over 20 years of bringing together current MIRD students, alumni, and faculty members. This year’s discussions focused on the theme: 'The Future of IR: Digital Innovation, Climate…

Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann is a scholarship PhD candidate at the History and International Studies Section, Institute for History, Leiden University. Her research focus is on Southeast Asian state’s foreign policy behavior in the contemporary American-Chinese great power rivalry. She researches foreign…

Ramesh Ganohariti is as a lecturer for the Bachelor Security Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs since 2017. In 2023 he obtained his PhD in Political Science from Dublin City University, Ireland.

Peer Review - In Search for Improvement Peer review has long been regarded as the cornerstone of academic journals and scientific communication, ensuring the quality and credibility of published research. However, while scientific journals have existed for over three centuries, peer review only became…