News
-
Yung-Ting Tsou wins Poster Prize at Dutch National Autisme Congres 2022 28 March 2022
Developmental psychologist Yung-Ting Tsou's research is part of the Breaking the Cycle project. This project of the Focus on Emotions lab at Leiden Un...
-
Psychologists participate in high-tech biomarker research in health care 24 March 2022
Next generation immunodermatology (NGID) is a nationwide, large-scale project, funded by a large grant of the Dutch NWO to unravel novel biomarkers fo...
-
Psychology Awards 2021 12 January 2022
Psychology teacher of the year is Anouk van der Weiden. The master thesis awards are for Irina Verhülsdonk and Christel Klootwijk. Eliška Procházková ...
-
European Grant for Jörg Gross to explore how groups deal with social dilemmas 11 January 2022
'I hope to contribute to a better understanding of social dilemmas we constantly face, like those that arise with climate change or the current pandem...
-
ERC Starting Grants for five young Leiden researchers 10 January 2022
Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of on average 1.5m euros...
-
"Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals" nominated for PhD publication award 21 December 2021
The Developmental and Educational Psychology unit nominated Jiemiao Chen's paper "Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals. The moder...
-
Talent Acceleration Grant of Medical Delta for Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam 17 December 2021
For the Train your Brain project, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam received the Medical Delta Talent Acceleration Grant. 'My pilot project does not focus on ...
-
Anne Urai on her Veni subsidy and open science 16 December 2021
Neuroscientist Anne Urai has been awarded a Veni subsidy to further develop her ideas over the coming four years on how the brain makes choices. Why d...
-
Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers 14 December 2021
Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elab...
-
Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors 03 November 2021
On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...
-
‘Colourblind parenting is a myth’ 01 November 2021
We should mention differences in skin colour to our children because only then can we talk openly about prejudice and racism – and how to prevent them...
-
Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors 14 October 2021
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have...
-
‘Family situations are never black and white’ 01 October 2021
She bridges the gap between research and practice, has excellent research skills and is pleasant to work with: these words of praise were lavished on ...
-
‘All the members of the Young Academy Leiden have a strong sense of responsibility' 21 September 2021
The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) acquired six new members on 1 September. We talked to the new and former chair of this platform for young academics abo...
-
Judi Mesman awarded Stevin Prize for research on upbringing and diversity 03 September 2021
What influence do children’s upbringing and education have on their world view? This is the question Professor Judi Mesman is trying to answer. For he...