In 2018, astronomer Jorryt Matthee won the C.J. Kok Jury Prize for the best dissertation from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. He succ...

Artist Marlene Dumas gave the 48th Huizinga Lecture to a packed Pieterskerk on 6 December. She spoke about her own background, and why you can’t assum...

From children’s inability to identify animals to a big protest at the opening of the academic year: below are our most popular articles of 2019.

How can computers help design optimal buildings? PhD student Koen van der Blom makes algorithms that take into account all kinds of different architec...

Researchers from Tax Law Department are authoring a report on corporate taxation and digitalization for the World Economic Forum.

Moritz Jesse, associate professor European Law at the Europa Institute Leiden, delivered a lecture on the Social integration of third-country nationals.

For the first time, Leiden University has made it to the top 10 of the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Of the 780 p...

The fourth edition of the Middle Eastern Culture market was a great success with more than 2000 visitors over the weekend. Attendees participated in t...

Bernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...

The European Commission has officially established Euro-BioImaging – which provides life scientists with open access to a broad range of technologies ...

On Friday, November 22, students of the Archaeology Honours track participated in a poster presentation at the national archaeological congress 'De Re...

Cultural Anthropology graduate Tommie Lambregts conducted fieldwork in the Slaaghwijk neighbourhood in Leiden as part of a Policy in Practice research...

For the fourth time in a row, the Dutch University Selection Guide labelled the Leiden bachelor’s programme Mathematics as ‘Excellent’. Director of ed...

The Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) is the coordinating partner in the Qluster research project, which was awarded a 2,9 million euro FET Open gran...

On 29 November 2019, Christa Tobler gave a lecture in Brussels on the new case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the field of gende...