The Europa Institute offers a regular European Law LL.M. programme and an Advanced LL.M. programme in European and International Business Law.

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Many internal and external parties are involved in the expansion of the Gorlaeus Building.

Measurement of brain activity by external electrodes (EEG).

All PhD candidates must be admitted to the Graduate School.

The Board of Examiners consists of scientific staff members of the IBL, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and CML, who teach in the biology programmes. They are appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Science and act independently from the research institutes. The responsibilities of the board include…

Legitimacy is generally a term that is associated with the state. The term surfaces when there are problems with state legitimacy—when it is lacking or absent. This present volume attempts to think through the relevance of the concept of legitimacy for other political actors than the state.

Since February 2018 the Leiden University PhD Regulation includes the possibility for senior lecturers (UHD's) to have ius promovendi: the right to award a PhD. They can request permission for this from the Doctorate Board via the Dean of their respective faculty.

The main methodological aspects of the use of stepwise LCA estimators under different circumstances.

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

It is the aim of this project to better understand how the physical properties of lipids influences the structure and overall barrier function of the skin.

A plasma is an ionized gas with very low electrical resistivity. As such, magnetic field lines are 'frozen in' and move with the fluid. Magnetic field lines that are linked, knotted and tangled, cannot be undone by the fluid motions.

This procedure is relevant for contract and external PhD candidates only.

Here are some pointers if you like to join us as a student, PhD student, postdoc, or guest. Vacancies are advertised at the university's general page, and sometimes also on this page. However, most PhD and postdoc positions are not formally advertised, but awarded year round based on individual appl…

In the course of your PhD you make agreements with your supervisors concerning your personal development and the supervision you receive. These agreements should be recorded in a Training and Supervision Plan. This plan contains agreements concerning your research, supervision, training, and potential…

Members of LUXs teach courses in statistics and data science at Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Center and Leiden University College, for students of many backgrounds. They cooperate in offering wide-ranging master programs in Statistical Science and Data Science, and provide many opportunities…

What is the function of the insect serosa?

This reflection for Critical Studies on Terrorism, explores two decades of the 'War of Terror' and what it means today.

The ASCL Research Programme for the years 2019-2024 is called ‘Strident Africa: Societal and Environmental Change in the Context of 50 Centuries of History’. It examines the dramatic changes taking place on the continent in terms of population growth, urbanization, the role of external actors and the…

The programme places emphasis on the interrelation of regional economic law of the European Union with global or trade law of the World Trade Organisation.

How new media shape the communication strategies of the PRC’s official news agency Xinhua?

EU foreign policy has become increasingly politicised over the past years, amongst others as a consequence of the succession of crises. Crises may engender processes of crisis framing and contestation. This article focuses on how the policy demands being voiced in these processes of contestation are…

As a PhD candidate, you probably work with personal data. That’s not just names and telephone numbers – it can also include things like cookies. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security policy.

Disciplinary History and Epistemology

My artistic practice deals with documents and, more specifically, with the use and the exploration of their narrative potential.

In theory, states can gain security by acquiring internal arms or external allies. Yet the empirical literature offers mixed findings: some studies find arms and allies to be substitutes, while others find them to be complements. Political scientists Matthew Digiuseppe (Leiden University) and Paul Poast…

The deans (chairs of the faculty boards) form the Board of Deans, which is chaired by the Rector Magnificus.

On the first day at a new job, you have sweaty palms, nerves race through your system, and you feel insecure. Now, a couple of months later these feelings have left. You know what to do in your new role and have become part of the organization. The process leading to this result is called organizational…

Ineke Smit defended her thesis on 17 September 2019

Read more about working at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.A.L. Biessen, Prof.dr. T.J.C. van Berkel

The University wants its teaching and research to have the maximum academic, cultural, social and economic impact.

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

This book presents a comprehensive description of the grammar of Logba, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages spoken by approximately 7,500 speakers on the South-Eastern frontier of the Ghana-Togo border. It is the outcome of fifteen months research in Logba speaking communities.

This article provides a behavioral perspective that examines responsibility attribution to the national government (upward) and policy implementers (downward) as a function of performance relative to decision-makers' aspiration levels. The study proposes that perceived accountability increases the propensity…

As a PhD candidate, you probably work with personal data. That’s not just names and telephone numbers – it can also include things like cookies. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security policy.

The IBL management team consists of the Director of the Institute, the Director of Education, the Coordinator Microbial Sciences, the Coordinator Plant Sciences, the Coordinator Animal Sciences, the Institute Manager and the Management Assistant.

As a PhD candidate you can experience problems in the relationship with your supervisor or co-supervisor, with your immediate superior, colleagues or other PhD candidates. If you are unable to solve these problems you can turn to the PhD confidential advisor for PhD candidates.

Our cantilevers have a low intrinsic damping rate: this enables us to measure with low noise, since damping is proportionate to noise. However, when the magnet is close to the surface of a sample we want to study, we measure a much higher effective damping rate. This is caused by magnetic interaction…

This study explores public leaders’ organizational learning orientation in the wake of a crisis. More precisely, we study the association between public leaders’ public service motivation and their learning orientation (instrumental versus political).

On these pages you will find information on the research that is being conducted at each of the participating universities as well as the funding programme set up by the Research School.

The secretariat is part of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law, part of Leiden Law School. The Institute Coordinator is in charge of the secretariat and the Institute's Academic Director is ultimately responsible for the secretariat. The secretariat provides administrative support…

The University’s Vision on Student Well-Being outlines how the University plans to promote student well-being in the coming years.

The Academic Language Centre provides courses not only for students and staff of Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical Centre, but also to external clients. In addition to a wide range of group courses with open access, we offer custom-made and individual-focused language training…

We investigate emergent structures and dynamics of soft materials self-assembled from microscopic constituents.

Our world is shrinking, or at least our electronic devices are. From PCs to mobile phones: everything is smaller and thinner. The smaller the chip, the better it can conduct electricity and pass on information.

The distinction of outstanding and rewarded scientific and educational achievements is an important component of the promotion of our work at the LACDR.

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

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