A plant-based diet could improve the resilience of our food system. Moving to such a diet in the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) alone could replace almost all the production losses from Russia and Ukraine. That’s what an international team of researchers conclude in Nature Food. Leiden…

I am associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. I work on a variety of cyber security topics, ranging from security risk management and threat modeling to mobile security and secure software development. My main goal is to make organisations more secure by improving their…

Lena Riecke is a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Institute of Security and Global Affairs, researching governance challenges in the commercial spyware market. Her work integrates law, intelligence studies, and cybersecurity.

Dr. Linde Desmaele is an Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University. Her work sits at the intersection of international relations and security studies, with a focus on nuclear politics, US alliances and European security.…

Hanum Atikasari is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Outer space is rapidly emerging as a critical domain of geopolitical and military competition. Satellites support navigation, communications, financial systems, climate monitoring and much more. At the same time, space is increasingly seen as a strategic and military domain. Countries are investing…

Shuang Sun is PhD in the Systems and Security cluster within LIACS.

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Frans Osinga is professor in War Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

Michael Kowalski is parttime Special Professor of Applied Ethics in Intelligence and Security. This special professorship is endowed by the Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV).

Prof.dr. Bibi van den Berg (1975) is full professor of Cybersecurity Governance at Leiden University, and the head of the Cybersecurity Governance research group at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of this university. Van den Berg has an MA and PhD in philosophy, both from Erasmus University…

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).

Edwin Bakker is professor in Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague. His fields of research are radicalisation, jihadi terrorism and in particular profiles of (jihadi) terrorists. In addition, his research is focussed on dealing with (fear of) terrorism…

Damien Van Puyvelde chairs the Intelligence and Security Group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. His expertise lies in contemporary intelligence, technology and cybersecurity.

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

Sebastiaan Rietjens holds the special chair of 'Intelligence in War & Conflict' established and funded by the Netherlands Defence Academy. He also is a full professor of Intelligence & Security at the Netherlands Defence Academy. He has done extensive fieldwork in military exercises and operations (Afghanistan…

Tommy van Steen is Associate Professor in the Cybersecurity Governance Group specialising in organisational and behavioural cybersecurity. His research interests include: cybersecurity behaviour of end-users, learning from what goes well, and organisational cybersecurity behaviour.

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

Willemijn Aerdts in an expert on intelligence- and security services. She lectures in the minor Intelligence Studies. Willemijn conducts research in regard to intelligence oversight and intelligence methodology.

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?…

Clara Cotroneo is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. She is also member of the research group on War, Peace and Justice, within which she is completing her doctoral studies.

Tim K Enwerem is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University. His Ph.D. research examines how the issues of identity politics precipitate the failure of states to institutionalize and operationalize human security in their domestic policy and implementation…

Giliam de Valk is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. He is specialized in methodology of intelligence analysis. He wrote his PhD on the Quality of Intelligence Analysis [2005] and is currently focusing on the methodology on how not to miss threats.

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…

Jelle van Buuren is an Associate Professor at Leiden University - Institute of Security and Global Affairs. His research interests lie in, among other things, terrorism and counter terrorism, intelligence and security agencies, lone actors, Incels and misogyny, conspiracy theories and political legitimacy,…

Joachim A. Koops is Chair of Security. His research focuses on Global Security Governance and the European Union’s foreign and security policies, the role of the United Nations, European Union, NATO (and their inter-organisational relations) in peace and security as well as crisis management, peacekeeping,…