CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best PhD paper, best student thesis and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominate...

Ian Simpson is a relatively new face at the Faculty of Archaeology. Starting as an assistant professor in the Heritage and Society department in 2018,...

Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their res...

Jihadism and smugglers, gold fever and ethnic strive. It is a toxic mix that makes the Sahel a volatile region in which jihadi's thrive. In the Dutch ...

On 28 and 29 January 2020 the workshop ‘Law, Rights, and Governance in Africa. A look to the Future’ was held at Leiden Law School.

Network-on-Chips are hardware that are used to communicate between different parts of a microchip. They have been around for over twenty years, but th...

From 30 January 2020 to 1 February 2020, the Europa Institute of Leiden Law School hosted the first regional final of the 2019/2020 edition of the Eur...

A new University brochure, About Us 2020, provides in-depth information about Leiden University, its research, teaching and impact on society in 2020....

From museum collections to artificial intelligence: Leiden University has selected eight research programmes that will receive extra funding

Iranian molecular plant biologist Salma Balazadeh started her career in Germany. Now she sets up a research group in Leiden to study stress in plants ...

After the successful visit to Brussels of last year, staff of the MA International Relations specialisation European Union Studies, the Communications...

On a wintry Wednesday evening, big issues were the topic of conversation at Grand Café de Burcht. Young Academy Leiden (YAL) was holding a round table...

Jorrit Rijpma responds in Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant to attention surrounding the reintroduction of border controls in the Schengen area.

Using positional data to determine which tactics lead to a successful attack? Rens Meerhoff, researcher at the Sports Data Center of the Leiden Instit...

For many deaf Ghanaians, Ghanaian Sign Language is their first language. But for more deaf signers to be able to fully participate in society, more si...