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Peter Webb Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for groundbreaking research on Pre-Islamic Arabia09 December 2025Dr Peter Webb (LIAS) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project Geo-Poetic Analysis of Pre-Islamic Arabia (GeoPo).
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Leiden University signs manifesto: ‘Think green, act green’09 December 2025Knowledge institutions play a unique role in society and can contribute to a future-proof and sustainable world. That’s why Leiden University has sign...
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Triturus newts reveal a genetic balancing actEvolutionary biology 09 December 2025An evolutionary 'trap' that has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that ...
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Answering the biggest questions with the tiniest particlesLeiden Science Young Talent Award 09 December 2025From lectures by Robbert Dijkgraaf to a telescope on the ocean floor: during his double bachelor’s in Physics and Astronomy, Jelle Oonk discovered tha...
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Over a third of Leiden’s professors are women, just above national levelMonitor 08 December 2025The proportion of female professors at Dutch universities is increasing, but at a modest rate. At 34.2%, Leiden University is in the top three. These ...
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Chris Handy excels in hacking competition: ‘Everything we find helps us to secure research data better’08 December 2025During the HALON hacking competition, 28 teams had one goal: to find as many vulnerabilities as possible in the systems of Dutch higher education inst...
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Untangling the knot of legal protection in educationInaugural lecture 08 December 2025Legal protection in education is something of a neglected child: oddly split between administrative law and civil courts. Brechtje Paijmans is calling...
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Alex Tutwiler receives Archol grant to reveal hidden stories of child labor08 December 2025PhD candidate Alex Tutwiler, from the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a grant from Archol, via the P.J.R. Modderman Foundation, to investigate ho...
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Anke Klein appointed as faculty lead of the Leiden Healthy Society Center05 December 2025Dr. Anke Klein, head of the Knowledge Center for Anxiety and Stress in Youth (KAS) and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sc...
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Marieke Adriaanse appointed as strategic representative of the Healthy Society Programme05 December 2025Prof. Dr. Marieke Adriaanse has been appointed as strategic representative and new member of the steering committee of the Healthy Society Programme. ...
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Leiden University Libraries Signs AI Agreement with International Heritage and Knowledge Institutions04 December 2025On December 3rd, AI4LAM (Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives, and Museums) was launched in London. Leiden University Libraries (UBL)is a f...
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How should we deal with global warming? Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg answers this question on the “Beste-ID” platformGlobal warming 04 December 2025At the end of 2024, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency stated that it is “highly unlikely that the Netherlands will achieve its statutory...
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Breaking the silence: Latin America’s fight against femicide04 December 2025Across Latin America, stories of violence against women reveal how deeply gender, power en inequality are intertwined. Researcher Martín Hernán Di Mar...
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A new window into the brain: visualising neural connectionsPHYSICS 04 December 2025To understand how the brain works, it is essential to map it out in detail. This appears to be possible with a microscopy technique in which Leiden ph...
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International community convenes in Pisa to advance coordinated reform in publishing and research assessmentWorkshop 03 December 2025On 14 November 2025, representatives from several organizations across the publishing reform and research assessment reform communities gathered in Pi...