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Researcher and project coordinator, working mainly on Leiden Ranking and various European Union projects on research assessment, open science, organizational research, bibliometric data, gender analysis and data curation.

Gerhard Burger (M.Sc.) is a PhD student at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety

Kiki Spoelstra is a PhD candidate at the CoPAN lab of the unit Cognitive Psychology. Her research focusses on communication, socio-cognitive functioning, and emotional expression in felids. By including species that greatly differ in their degree of sociality, she aims to further investigate how social…

Emma Devereux is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

As a PhD candidate, your research demands precision, creativity, and intense focus. Yet, navigating people—supervisors, promotors, co-authors, committee members—can feel more complex than navigating your dataset or experiment. Maybe you’ve held back from raising a concern in a meeting. Or avoided negotiating…

Liesbeth works as of 2019 as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. Before joining the Department, she worked as a Researcher/Research Fellow at Nivel (2008-2012 & 2015-2018); UMC Utrecht (2016); OLVG (2017-2018); and King’s College London, Dept of Palliative…

Martin is part of the ecotoxicology group, where he is working on the implementation of eDNA in ecotoxicological research as both a tool to study community effects, as well as a predictive tool to gain insight in the state of a community.

Carlos Roos is a lecturer at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), where he teaches for the Minor Music Studies and the PRE-University Programme.

My research focuses on the role of authenticity in science museums and on measuring the impact of science communication.

Jaap de Jong is a Professor of Journalism and New Media at the Centre for Linguistics.

Lara is researching culturally sensitive information provision in palliative care, focusing on patients who prefer non-disclosure or implicit communication about their diagnosis or prognosis, often from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Mark Rutte: an exceptional politician whose time was up. What are the consequences of Rutte’s departure. Experts from Leiden University give their view on this political event.

I suggest a systematic study into the influence of non-singing female companions on vocal learning in young birds as a proof-of-principle study into how non-imitative learning processes from the social environment influence the timing and content of vocal learning and thus drive the interface between…

Tian Yang is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. Tian is currently investigating how users perceive the output of machine translation by using eye tracking.

Ludo Waltman is scientific director and professor of Quantitative Science Studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. He is co-chair of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI).

Liselotte Rambonnet is a PhD student at the Institute of Biology in Leiden and conducts research on citizens collecting data about plastic pollution and animal rescue centers. She is interested in the motivation of volunteers to collect data and what their impact is, not only on themselves but also…

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Just start somewhere: whether it's videos, board games, theatre performances, or festivals. That was one of the key insights Sophie Wintermans gained during the Science Communication Summer School. In her view, the Summer School is a great step for any scientist interested in science communication.

Victor Posthuma is affiliated with the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University as an external PhD candidate. Working title: ‘From back room to corridor: the role of journalism in the resignation of ministers and state secretaries in the cabinets of Balkenende I up to and including Rutte…

Corona travel restrictions and increased political pressure: research into China has become considerably more difficult in recent years. University lecturer and China researcher Rogier Creemers does not let this put him off. He receives an NWO grant to screen policy documents using digital technique…

A big performance by André Rieu, food trucks in The Hague and more contact with the Royal Family: grand plans were announced in April to make the State Opening of Parliament (Prinsjesdag) a real ‘crowd puller’. For this year, however, we will just have to make do with slight differences in emphasis.…

Ana Parrón Cabañero is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. Ana holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programme in Research and Innovation in Higher Education awarded by the University for Continuing Education Krems and Tampere University. Her…

Henrik is an ecologist and ecotoxicologist focusing on identifying how pollution moves through and impacts ecosystems.

Agnes Schneider is a PhD candidate at the department of Archaeological Sciences.

As a neuropsychologist, Judith Schomaker aims to investigate the effects of novelty on learning, memory, and motivation

Emily Strange is an ecologist whose work is grounded in conservation biology, invasion ecology and ecosystem resilience.

Karlijn van Heijst is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Psychology and Affective Neuroscience (CoPAN) lab of Prof. dr. Mariska Kret. Her PhD project focuses on the role of expressions of emotion in cooperation in great apes.

I am professor emeritus of Animal Behaviour. I study a broad range of topics in Animal Behaviour and Animal Cognition, but have a prime interest in the development and processing of vocalizations in birds. In comparative research I examine similarities and differences between avian vocalizations and…

Willem Zwalve is a professor at the Department of Legal History, associated with the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law.

Building a sustainable, international and interdisciplinary consortium for developing evidence-based communication strategies about Antimicrobial Resistance. That is the objective of a new project between researchers from Leiden University, VU Amsterdam and Stellenbosch University in South Africa, made…

Michiel Hooykaas works at Naturalis Biodiversity Center (michiel.hooykaas@naturalis.nl) and is a guest researcher/lecturer at Leiden University. He has a background in biology and science communication and did PhD research at the Science Communication and Society department on species literacy and the…