News
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Eveline Crone new ERC Vice-President 31 October 2019
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Development Psychology at Leiden University, has been elected as the new Vice President of the European Res...
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Leiden University receives gift for research into psychology of economic behaviour 30 October 2019
Leiden University has received a gift of over 2m euros from the Utopa Foundation for its Department of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology....
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Donations for research projects with relevance to society 20 October 2019
Psychologists Marieke Tollenaar, Anne Miers and Esther van den Bos received donations from the Leiden University Fund and Stichting Praesidium Liberta...
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Rianne de Kleine using Veni grant to study post-traumatic stress 01 October 2019
Can we improve the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Our young and promising psychologist Rianne de Kleine receives a Veni grant to ...
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Psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds takes over the Twitter account @NL_Wetenschap 27 September 2019
Zsuzsika Sjoerds seems to be busy with her research, her teaching, and open science advocacy. She will also take over the Twitter account for Dutch sc...
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Andrea Evers installed as a new KNAW member 16 September 2019
Health psychologist Andrea Evers is one of the 19 new members, selected by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), who have been in...
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Gravitation grant for team captains Bernet Elzinga and Andrea Evers 16 September 2019
Although depression looks different for each person, the treatment is the same for everyone. At the same time, the treatment of psychological issues i...
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LUF grants for six Leiden psychologists 22 August 2019
LUF grants for research projects have been awarded to Liesbeth van Vliet, Michiel Claessen, Anna van Duijvenvoorde, Laura Steenbergen, Kim de Jong and...
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Andrea Evers wins Stevin Prize for knowledge exchange and impact 21 June 2019
Andrea Evers, Professor of Health Psychology at Leiden University, has won the Stevin Prize – alongside the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific awar...
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Wilco van Dijk NIAS-KNAW fellow 28 May 2019
Wilco van Dijk has been awarded a NIAS Individual Fellowship, which allow researchers to work on a project of their own choosing for a 5- or 10-month ...
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Leiden University's nominees New Scientist science talent 29 April 2019
Mathematician Stéphanie van der Pas and psychologist Sandy Overgaauw have been nominated for the New Scientist science talent competition, a prize for...
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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW 23 April 2019
Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...
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ZonMw Medical Inspirator Prize for research ‘Lyme paralyses lives’ 18 March 2019
Together with patient representatives, clinician-researchers from Radboucumc (Internal Medicine) Amsterdam UMC and researchers from Leiden University ...
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Zsuzsika Sjoerds nominated for the Woman in the Media Award - You Go Girl 31 January 2019
Vote now for our psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds to win the Woman in the Media Award 2018 - You Go Girl for her important work standing up for science ...
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Psychology awards 2018 14 January 2019
Standing on the shoulders of giants, that's what the students and staff of the of the Institute of Psychology do. Congratulations.