Get an impression of what the International Experience Week is all about by looking back at last year's presentations.

Wenyu Wan is a guest Ph.D. candidate at the cognitive psychology Unit, Leiden University under supervision of Prof.dr. K.R. Ridderinkhof (University of Amsterdam) and dr. Arko Ghosh. She completed a bachelor's in psychology at Beijing Sport University and got her master's degree at the Institute of…

Julia van den Berg (1976) is a psychologist and epidemiologist, with a wide span of interests in the field of psychology and psychiatry. In 2008 she obtained her PhD degree at Erasmus University Rotterdam, with a thesis entitled ‘Sleep in later life. A population-based approach'. She has worked as a…

Simone van der Hof is a full Professor of Law and Digital Technology at the Center for Law and Digital Technology (eLaw) at Leiden Law School, Leiden University.

How can we tell whether and how a prehistoric weapon was used? How can we better understand the dexterity and combat skills involved in Bronze Age spear fighting? A research team from Leiden and Göttingen University present a new approach to answering these questions: they simulated the actual fight…

Museum Jan Cunen in Oss presents the very first retrospective exhibition of the richest graves from the early Iron Age (800-500 BC), including the one of the iconic Lord of Oss. Leiden archaeologist Richard Jansen was guest curator and the exhibition tells the story of the funeral rituals of the local…

Gerrit Dusseldorp is an expert on the behaviour of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers both in Northwest Europe and South Africa.

Mark van Buchem is Professor of Neuroradiology.

Dusan Maczek is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catalin Popa in a PLOS ONE article published on 20 January. The discovery led to a surge of media reports.

Lasse van den Dikkenberg is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

At the transition of the Neolithic to Bronze Age, a societal clash took place between a male dominated oligarchy (also known as the patriarchy) and the matriarchy. The latter managed to exploit vulnerabilities in the 'bro-code' to reboot society's operating system.

Annetje Ottow is the first female president of the Executive Board of Leiden University, which means a return to her Alma mater.

Harry Fokkens (Wissenkerke 1953) is emeritus professor in European Prehistory.

What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the answer was simple: mammoth bones.

Friedo W. Dekker is a professor of Clinical Epidemiology. His main teaching is related to scientific training and engagement in research, and he is program leader and co-chair of a research group on medical education. His clinical research is mainly related to patients with chronic kidney disease, in…

Conference, Workshop

Leiden PhD candidate Mona Shahab climbed Mount Everest two years ago to raise money for the education of disadvantaged children in Egypt. She made it to the top and posed there with the University flag. She recently presented the flag to Rector Carel Stolker.

A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest such analysis published to date, scientists examined the DNA of nearly 800 ancient individuals. Publication in Nature on December 22, 2021.

New research has revealed that one of Europe’s largest prehistoric mass graves records the deliberate killing of women and children, showing how gender- and age-selective violence was used to disrupt communities and assert power in the Early Iron Age. Leiden archaeologist Jason Laffoon was involved…

Monday, 3 April, the yearly field school for all first-year students at the Faculty of Archaeology will start. The municipality of Oss is welcoming our 120 students and provides an excellent practical learning stage for the basic skills they will need to master for their professional careers.

Richard Jansen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

ICT, Security

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