Assistant Professor Daan Weggemans researches contemporary and digital security, cybercrime, extremism and conceptual thinking at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA).

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

Carina van de Wetering is Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science

Pieter Tops holds the special chair in Organised and Subversive Crime Studies established and funded by the Police Academy.

Fatemeh is a PhD student at LIACS, specializing in Hardware security and Embedded systems. In 2022, she earned her master's degree in computer architecture from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. During her studies, she conducted research on optimizing load balancing for IoT and edge devices using…

Maarja Beerkens' research focuses on governance issues, regulation, and empirical policy analysis and evaluation. Her field of interest lies in higher education and science policy in which she has published academically as well as conducted policy advising in different parts of the world (Armenia, Botswana,…

Constance Maly is a PhD candidate in European Studies at the Institute of Political Science.

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz is an assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and at the department of Economics (Institute of Tax Law and Economics).

The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The projects adress suicide prevention skills and mental health of Ukraine refugees. Both projects will be integrated in the programme with the aim to improve…

Dennis Broeders is Full Professor of Global Security and Technology and Senior Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security at Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University. His research and teaching broadly focuses on the interaction between international security, technology…

On Monday 26 August, students were warmly welcomed at the Wijnhaven location with a blue carpet and live music. Accompanied by their friends and family, they gathered to receive their BSc Security Studies diploma.

Marinko Bobic has a PhD degree in International Studies from the University of Trento, Italy, as well as an MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy from Leiden University. His scholarly interests focus on state strategy, conflict and resources, and unrecognized states.

Rutger Leukfeldt holds the special chair of Governing Cybercrime, established and managed by the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Rutger's education and research focuses on the human factor in cybercrime. Who are the perpetrators, what are their crime scripts?…

I am a scholar whose research focuses on the modern and contemporary United States. Though a historian by training, my work engages with insights from other disciplines, particularly international relations and American politics. I am currently the principal investigator on the NWO Vidi-funded project…

Sarah Giest is a Professor of Public Policy with a focus on Innovation and Sustainability at the Public Administration Institute of Leiden University. She has been developing an interdisciplinary research agenda and teaching on using a policy lens to look at technical, environmental and social solutions…

Dr Antonio Missiroli has been appointed as Associate Senior Policy Fellow for Emerging Security Threats at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA).

How do we balance policy critique with constructive policy recommendations? How do we navigate power relations between policy makers and (disadvantaged) communities, without estranging either? And what are particularly productive methods for translating our medical anthropological insights into poli…

Parto Mirzaei is a PhD candidate in Cyber Security and Public Governance. She holds a MSc in Crisis and Security Management - Cyber Security Governance from Leiden University, and a MSc in Political Science - International Relations from the University of Amsterdam. Her work at ISGA focuses on the…

Vlad Niculescu-Dinca's overall research looks at the socio-technical phenomena at the intersection of security governance practices and new technological develoments, with the aim of improving their quality and social and ethical acceptability. As digital infrastructures increasingly become constitutive…

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

Iyute Deborah Oyuu is a PhD candidate and as a Deaf person, she uses Sign language to communicate. Iyute Deborah is attached to Through the Hands of Signers Project which is under the coordination of Dr. Victoria Nyst from the Department of Linguistics. Iyute Deborah is a Sign Language & Disability…

From Saturday morning 31 January at 06.00 until Sunday 1 February at 23.59, the buildings on our campus will be closed due to scheduled maintenance to the university network. This concerns the Gorlaeus Building, Huygens, Oort and Sylvius. For Snellius and Van Steenis, please contact the building man…

Computer says no: end of story. Twenty years ago, a hilarious line in the British TV series Little Britain, now a reality. We all blindly follow technology at times, with varying consequences. For ISGA lecturer and researcher Daan Weggemans, it's a subject worthy of a PhD.

Bart Schuurman is Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, and head of the research group by the same name. His research focuses on understanding contemporary forms of terrorism, extremism and radicalization. In particular, he has studied why most…

Eva Michaels talks about the current international security environment, including intelligence issues with Sir John Sawers in an interview in El País.

Carsten Stahn has been Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden Law School since 2010.

Daniëlla Dam-de Jong is Professor of International Sustainable Development Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. She is also the director of the management board of the Grotius Centre, a member of the Dutch Advisory Committee on Public International Law (CAVV), Deputy Chair of the…

Niels Blokker has been a staff member of the Grotius Centre since the beginning, as Professor of International Institutional Law (holding the Schermers Chair, partly financed by the Prof. mr. H.G. Schermers Fund).

Antonella Maiello is an Assistant Professor of Governance of Sustainability at the Institute of Public Administration, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University (The Hague – Campus). Her research concerns processes, practices, and experiments of (social and economic) change in different…

Dr. Isabella Brunner is assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, and associate fellow at The Hague Program on International Cybersecurity. Having obtained her PhD in international law, her research focuses on questions of how international law applies to cyber operations,…

Martijn van Ette is a PhD-candidate at Leiden's Institute for History. Being part of Dr. Andrew Gawthorpe's NWO-funded project that focusses on American foreign policy and (il)liberalism, he focuses on Southeast Asia and the perceptions that shaped America's strategic interpretations of the region.

Serge A.R.B. Rombouts is professor of methods of cognitive neuroimaging at the Department of Radiology at the Leiden University Medical Center and the Institute of Psychology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. His grants include NWO-ZonMW Veni, Vidi and Vici grants.

On Wednesday 31 August 2022, the graduation ceremony of the BSc Security Studies took place. The ceremony was opened by programme director Daan Weggemans.

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Sanneke Kuipers, Full Professor in Crisis Governance and Scientific Director (WD) of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University. Sanneke combines crisis management scholarship with practical experience as a consultant. She publishes on crisis management, institutionalization,…

With this podcast series 'Introduction to Security Studies', you will get to know more about the bachelor's programme Security Studies at Leiden University in The Hague and life as a student in The Hague.

Dr. Aiden Hoyle is an Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

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Nikki Ikani, Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), has recently published her latest monograph 'Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy' with Manchester University Press.

Guilherme is an assistant professor at LIACS since 2022. His research areas include hardware security, side-channel attacks, applied cryptography, optimization algorithms, and deep learning.