Prof.dr. R. van Luijk dr. F. Pasquotto

As you may know, a draft profile for a broad BA programme in Languages and Cultures has been in development for some time. On 21 December 2021, the Faculty Board decided to end the design process of that broad bachelor’s degree programme. However, as the Faculty Board and partners in the discipline…

Sterre ter Haar has won the Rachel Carson Graduation Prize for her thesis on how rising levels of CO₂ affect the nutrient content of plants. For the Industrial Ecology student, the award is a crowning achievement after a difficult period of recovering from long COVID.

On Thursday afternoon, 6 October, Lara Wierenga, Anne Urai and Niels van Doesum kicked off the first edition of Psychology Connected, a recurring event organised by the Science Committee, where big questions and small conversations easily alternate.

Ann Brysbaert is Professor in Ancient technology, crafts and materials at the Faculty of Archaeology.

During her master's thesis, Nashanty Brunken (24) worked in a team with five other women. With this female team, they discovered the largest molecule so far identified in a disc. 'I have learned so much and because we are all women, it is incredibly empowering. It's very cool to see how far we've come…

Nova Verkerk has represented the interests of students as assessor for the past two years. Now her term has come to an end, and on 1 September she will be succeeded on the Faculty Board by Mette Kamerich.

Eugénie Stapert is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Dr. Jasper van den Boom is assistant professor EU competition law at the Europa Institute at Leiden University. His research focuses in particular on competition in digital markets and digital regulation including the Digital Markets Act (EU), as well as comparative research between EU, UK, and US…

Martijn van den Brink is an Assistant Professor in EU law at the Europa Institute, Leiden University. His research interests lie at the interface of EU constitutional law and political theory. In his research, Martijn focuses in particular on the constitutional position of the EU legislature, on EU…

Elise Alberts is pursuing a doctoral degree at the Protestant Theological University and Leiden University in the fields of theology and sociolinguistics. In her research, she is investigating the effect of multilingualism on faith experience. In particular, she is examining how language attitudes and…

Darinka Piqani lectures EU law and conducts research in the field of European constitutional law.

Piet Jan Slot taught European substantive law including competition law and state aid at the University of Leiden for more than twenty five years. He is also fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies London and member of the Advisory Board, Common Market Law Review.

Ron Diris is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics.

How is it that sometimes you remain effortlessly focused on a textbook, while you notice every little sound or movement at other times? The ability to transform a goal—for example, reading a book—into goal-directed behavior is cognitive control. This trait makes our behavior extraordinarily flexible,…

Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started thanks to funding from the Dutch Research Council's KIC research programme.

Marie Schwed Shenker, PhD candidate at eLaw, has successfully completed an intensive summer school on Social Robotics at Utrecht University. The program offered a comprehensive mix of theoretical instruction and hands-on experience, providing her with the skills to design and experiment with social…

Our university labs are bursting with cutting-edge research, but how do you commercialise these inventions and discoveries or translate them into outcomes that benefit society? Professor of biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin started a spin-off company with his team. ‘When it comes to valorisation…

‘What I find most alluring about soil life is that you can steer it,’ researcher Martijn Bezemer of the Institute Biology Leiden (IBL) reveals. ‘You can ask: What do you want? And then I can transform the soil into something you need. At least, that is what we thought.’

Speaking with your manager more often, focusing explicitly on well-being and giving more recognition and rewards for teamwork and team performance: the annual Performance & Development (P&D) interview will have a new format and also a new name. With the acronym GROW (Gesprekken over Resultaat, Ontwikkeling…

Prof.dr. V. Cheianov Prof.dr. K. Schalm Summary The electrical properties of materials are governed by the movement of charged particles known as electrons. It has been a landmark success of quantum physics in the twentieth century to identify that in many materials, complicated interactions between…

We have to do all we can to stop climate change. But: the Earth is more resilient than we thought. That is the surprising conclusion of an international team of ecologists and mathematicians, which included Leiden mathematician Arjen Doelman. The team discovered that ecosystems can still avoid tipping…

The research project of Jos Raaijmakers is nominated for the Huibregtsenprijs 2022. The researcher of NIOO, with a guest appointment at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), is one of six nominees. On the Evening of Science & Society (Dutch: Avond van Wetenschap & Maatschappij), 10 October 2022, the…

In this talk, I discuss different effects negation can have on the syntactic derivation in four languages from West and East Africa. In Dagbani (Mabia, Ghana) and Hausa (Chadic, Nigeria), sentential negation blocks the occurrence of a particular marker, the disjoint marker in Dagbani,…

In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…

We are excited to announce that Marie Schwed Shenker's research paper, co-authored with Dr Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (Associate Professor at eLaw) and Professor Bart Custers (Professor of Law and Data Science), has been accepted for presentation at the 16th International Conference on Social Robotics…

Anna van Duijvenvoorde examines how brain development relates to changes in decision making, risk-taking and social learning during adolescence. She is also a co-founder of the research platform CHANGE Leiden. She is professor Developmental Psychology.

Danielle Hofmans is an External PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

My name is Kostas Georgopoulos and I come from Athens, Greece. I am currently working in Leiden University as part of the Above-Belowground interactions group where my research focuses on the use of soil inoculation as a way to assist the process of afforestation.

Thijs Bierman is currently working as a PhD at the Above-Belowground Interactions group at the Sylvius laboratory in a collaborative project about development of new plant-based adhesive crop protection strategies for the control of thrips and other greenhouse pests in tomato, chrysanthemum, and str…

The Kovács lab concentrates on the growth and development of Bacilli during establishment of biofilms and interaction with rhizosphere microorganisms using a combination of molecular biology and eco-evolutionary approaches. We combine genome sequencing, genetic engineering, transcriptomics, and natural…

Ellen Cieraad is a quantitative plant ecologist with broad research interests centered on understanding species’ distributional limits and responses of plants to their environment.

A pandemic of lianas is sweeping through tropical forests, reducing their ability to store carbon and limiting their role in mitigating climate change. Two recent studies from Leiden University highlight the issue. ‘We now understand why lianas are visible in satellite imagery.’

Salma Balazadeh, Víctor Carrión, and Jos Raaijmakers, biologists at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), have successfully applied for an NWO grant and got awarded 730.000 euros. The board of NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences awarded funding for their project within the Open Technology Programme…

Alexander van Oudenhoven is an environmental scientist who works on the interface between ecosystems and people. He is Education Director of the Governance of Sustainability master’s programme.

Arjen Doelman (Leiden University), Max Rietkerk (Utrecht University), Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Isla Myers-Smith (University of Edinburgh) received an ERC Synergy grant of 10 million euros with their RESILIENCE project. The researchers will investigate whether and how tipping…

Teaching for Sustainable Tomorrows is a two-part, hands-on, reflective workshop designed for educators who want to meaningfully incorporate climate change and sustainability into their teaching—whether through a single lesson or a course-wide transformation. Each session has a distinct focus, and…

Prof.dr. A. Briegel Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel Summary The endophytic microbiota is a community of various microorganisms that reside in plant tissue. These microbes are known to promote plant health and resilience, and their members do not simply exist side by side. Instead, they constantly interact with…

Prof.dr. F.A.J. de Haas dr. R.M. van den Berg Summary This study aims to reconstruct Plato’s theory of change and motion, a topic that has not been adequately or systematically explored despite its critical importance. The pre-Socratic philosophers’ diverse perspectives and debates provide the context…

This event will be held (primarily) in Dutch: please refer to the Dutch event page for more information

Eva is affiliated to the Europa Institute as PhD candidate since 1 June 2020.

Joseph (Joe) Finnerty is an Assistant Professor in European Human Rights Law at the Europa Institute, Leiden University. His primary research interest is the regulation of restrictions on rights and freedoms, particularly the purposes that are permitted or prohibited. In his research, Joe focuses on…

Madeleine Eppel is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Title research: Expand more information panel. An Analysis of Kenya's Anti-Money Laundering Measures for Politically Exposed Persons in the Banking sector.