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Board of Deans

The deans (chairs of the faculty boards) form the Board of Deans, which is chaired by the Rector Magnificus.

  • Chair: Prof. Hester Bijl
  • Faculty of Archaeology: Prof. Jan Kolen
  • Faculty Governance and Global Affairs: Prof. Erwin Muller
  • Faculty of Humanities: Prof. Mark Rutgers
  • Faculty of Medicine/LUMC: Prof. Henk-Jan Guchelaar (interim)
  • Faculty of Law: Prof. Suzan Stoter
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences: Prof. Sarah de Rijcke
  • Faculty of Science: Prof. Jasper Knoester

Responsibilities

  • Acting as the Doctorate Board: conferring doctorates and honorary doctorates, recognition of co-tutelle and joint doctoral agreements, granting of Ius Doctoral Examinations to non-professors, and decisions on amendments to the Doctoral Degree Regulations
  • Collegial – non-decision- making – consultation on teaching and research in the broadest
    sense of the word
  • Advising the Executive Board on the establishment of endowed chairs or externally funded regular chairs
  • Advising the Executive Board on promotions to HGL-1
  • Advising the Executive Board on awards from the Coryfee fund
  • Selection of the annual Cleveringa professor
  • Awarding the Scaliger medal, in close discussion with the director of the Leiden University
    Library
  • Planning the celebration of the University’s annual Dies Natalis, including the choice of Dies lecturer(s). 

Contact

Secretary to the Board of Deans

Anneke Hendriks

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