As a supervisor, you are responsible for the supervision of your PhD candidate. Read here about your duties as a supervisor and the procedures relating to this, as well as the administrative steps in LUCRIS GSM.

As a supervisor, you are responsible for the adequate supervision of your PhD candidate. Read here about your duties as a supervisor, the procedures relating to this, and which forms you will need.

As a supervisor, you play a vital role in guiding and supporting your PhD candidate throughout their academic journey. Here are some important responsibilities and steps you need to consider.

As a supervisor, you play a vital role in guiding and supporting your PhD candidate throughout their academic journey. Here are some important responsibilities and steps you need to consider.

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

Once you have decided on your field of research, you should start looking for a supervisor as early as possible.

These are the proposed research projects for LEAPS 2019. Please note that not all projects will go ahead and some may still be added in the near future. Final funding decisions lie with the Faculty sponsors. And please make a note that if you are interested in an ESA project, to check if your state…

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

In what ways can the professionalisation of teachers and supervisors in police education around diversity, inclusion and diverse professionalism be increased?

Four talented students will have the opportunity to progress smoothly from their master’s study programme into a research career. Master’s students in Applied Statistics can compete for one quarter of the € 800,000 grant recently awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).…

Interdisciplinarity is more than a buzzword in academia. It’s essential for tackling today’s biggest challenges. But what does it look like in practice? How can PhDs learn the skills needed to work across disciplines, and how can supervisors master the art of guiding them?

On 10 September the students of the European Law Master gathered in the Lorentzzaal for the festive opening of their programme.

Below thesis archives will be moved shortly (work in progress) to the Leiden Repository. Once this is done, theses submitted by MI students (from 2008 onwards) can be accessed via the Repository and will be removed from this site.

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Within 3 months of the start of the PhD project, your supervisors and you will draw up a Training and Supervision Plan in consultation with you and the other members of the supervision team. 

Supervising a PhD candidate comes with different responsibilities at different stages of the PhD trajectory. These sessions provide practical guidance on supporting PhD candidates, from the start of their project to the final phase leading up to the defence.

Requirements for admission to the Graduate School and the steps described below in short are described in detail in the Leiden University PhD Regulations.

LUCRIS Graduate School Management (GSM) is a system for the registration of all formal steps regarding admission, progress, and graduation during the PhD track. LUCRIS GSM supports various approvals (by the supervisor (promotor), dean, and secretary) that occur during the PhD track. Some documents,…

What are the university's requirements for PhD candidates? How do you organise your PhD track? You read all about it in the regulations, guidelines and golden rules.

Once you have secured a PhD position, a scholarship, or other funds and you have found a supervisor who is willing to supervise you during the PhD track, you should apply to the Graduate School of Science. This page informs you about the application procedure.

On Thursday 30 May 2024 Corrie van Maris successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On Wednesday 11 June 2025 Steffie van Gompel successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On Wednesday 14 February 2024 Yorum Beekman successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

More information on the PhD Regulations, Guidelines and Golden Rules.

In this thesis we present several methods to automate tomographic reconstruction algorithms and several novel tomographic reconstruction algorithms with the focus on being easily applicable and efficient to use.

In this thesis, we show that we can use Shimura’s CM theory to explicitly compute the Hilbert class field of any primitive quartic CM field.

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On Friday 16 May Juul Eijk successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.

On Wednesday 3 July 2024 Renata Schiavo successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On Tuesday 3 December 2024 Shuang Liu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On Thursday 29 January 2026 Uğur Derin successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

The modification of risk factors and related health behaviors lies at the very core of adequate cardiovascular risk management, yet evidence shows that the majority of people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) fail to achieve a healthy lifestyle in the long term. The main objective of this project is…

Information about doctorates and application procedures for PhD positions at ICLON

When you apply for admission, you’ll be asked to submit several documents.

The PhD Regulations set out who is eligible to be a PhD candidate, what the tasks of the supervisor and co-supervisor are and which criteria the dissertation has to meet. The PhD Guidelines list the minimal requirements for the supervision, training and available facilities for PhD candidates.

Leiden University wants to create a safe and stimulating environment for everyone. However, you may experience issues at work that you cannot solve yourself. Your first point of contact for such situations is your supervisor. If you feel you cannot talk about it with your supervisor, you can turn to…

Open online education has become a highly popular method of education. The current project aims to further our knowledge of how open online courses can be best designed to be consistent with human learning mechanics and facilitate meaningful learning.

Most employed and contract PhD candidates at the Faculty of Archaeology follow a 4-year PhD track in a full-time position.

In the past years, the Faculty of Archaeology has started to require that researchers provide evidence of ethical review before starting some projects, for example when working with human participants or human remains. This is in line with what many academic journals have started to include in their…

An important part of the PhD trajectory is discussing progress.

A Training and Supervision Plan (TSP) is compulsory for all PhD candidates admitted to the Graduate School.

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

On Wednesday 23 October 2024 Judith Jurjens successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On the 15th of July Sawako Takemura successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

If PhD candidates encounter problems, they should ask for help early on. If the problem is of an academic nature (in relation to research or teaching), their supervisors are the first port of call. If the issue falls outside the remit of the supervisors, there are several options.

On Thursday 27 June 2024 Sigrid van Roode successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On 16 November 2022 ms. Eftychia Mylona successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On 7 September 2023 Didem Durak Akser successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

On Thursday 7 November 2024 Vaudine England successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.