The Security Studies bachelor's programme has received a bronze medal in EW Best Studies 2023. Every year, EW Best Studies selects the top programmes in Dutch higher education.

Håvar Solheim is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for History.

Alumni event, Lustrum

In 2019, Federico Cappadona was one of the first students to enroll in the new master’s specialisation Applied Archaeology. He recently graduated and he is happy to share his experience.

Janet Connor is a linguistic anthropologist and sociolinguist whose research explores how forms of listening become socially and politically meaningful, in both Norway and the Netherlands. She also teaches about and does research on multilingualism in cities. Since August 2021, she is an Assistant Professor…

Remco Breuker is a historian of Korea and Northeast Asia, who works on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and on contemporary North Korean affairs. He published on the medieval state of Koryo, Korean historiography, Northeast Asia and North Korea, as well as literary translations from Korean…

I specialize in the field of modern Middle East studies, concentrating on the region's politics and international relations (history and theory), foreign policy analysis, and diplomatic history. As a historian of international relations I have developed special research interests in the Arab-Israeli…

I am a PhD student in Carrion Lab and Microbial Ecology Department at NIOO-KNAW. In my project I aim to decipher endophytic microbial functions activated upon pathogen infection. I am also involved in developing bioinformatic tools and its use for the prediction of endophytic lifestyle and confirmation…

Zifan Meng is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Ingrid Samset is a political scientist who teaches at Leiden University College. Her research and teaching address questions related to peace and conflict dynamics, transitional justice, postcolonial studies, and memory studies.

Jip Barreveld is a PhD candidate in the Rural Riches research project at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Combining studying with top-level sport requires dedication and careful academic planning. If you want to take on the challenge, Leiden University can offer you personal guidance and help you to maximise your talent.

Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann is a scholarship PhD candidate at the History and International Studies Section, Institute for History, Leiden University. Her research focus is on Southeast Asian state’s foreign policy behavior in the contemporary American-Chinese great power rivalry. She researches foreign…

Alies Jansen is a PhD candidate in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at the Institute for History at Leiden University. In 2025, she is a visiting researcher in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dennis Braekmans is Assistant Professor in Archaeological Materials Analysis in the Department of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Archaeology.

Henrike Jansen is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

Miriam Waltz is assistant professor in gender justice and health technologies with a joint appointment between the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and the African Studies Centre.

Elmer Veldkamp is an anthropologist of Korea and Japan, who focuses on the collective and individual processes by means of which people make sense of changes and developments in their everyday lives.

Vincent K.L. Chang is a university lecturer in history and international relations and a senior fellow at the Leiden Asia Centre. He focuses on historical experiences and contemporary approaches to nation building, conflict, diplomacy and law in the East Asian and Indo-Pacific contexts. His main areas…

Simulations of galaxy formation provide much more information about galaxies than a telescope. Simulations have been improving significantly in recent years. Astronomer Evgenii Chaikin made such a significant contribution to this field that he graduated with honours on February 27th.

Lecture, CIEL Seminars

Felix Ameka is Professor by Special Appointment and Senior University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

On Wednesday 31 August 2022, the graduation ceremony of the BSc Security Studies took place. The ceremony was opened by programme director Daan Weggemans.

Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

Conference

Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies / Global History at the Leiden University Institute for History.

Aida Gholami is an external PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Jan Wim Buisman is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Florian Schneider's research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment, recent Chinese economic developments, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He…

Kim Beerden is university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Jasper De Paepe is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. Jasper De Paepe has conducted research on local security networks, police lethal force and the interaction between experts and policy makers, as well as the acquisition of expert advice in the formulation of policy responses…

Dr. Silvia D’Amato is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), part of the research groups Terrorism and Political Violence and War, Peace and Justice. Silvia is also Secretary General of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS).

Dr Csilla Ariese is temporarily filling in for Dr Mariana Françoco as leader of the ERC Starting Grant BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).

Organised in three separate sessions throughout the day, and broadcast live online to guests and families who could not join, over 200 students received their Bachelor’s Diploma of International Studies on 3 September 2021 at the graduation ceremony in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden.

Caroline Waerzeggers is Professor of Assyriology at Leiden University. She specializes in the history of Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC, with a focus on imperial transformation under Neo-Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid rule. She is particularly interested in studying local responses to empire.…

Thomas joined CML in 2024, where he aims to improve the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) toolbox for the environmental evaluation of novel materials.

Graphene – a one atom thin material – has the potential to act as a sensor, primarily the surface and the edges of graphene. Gregory Schneider aims at exploring new chemical and biological sensing routes by exploiting the unique surface and edge chemistry of graphene.

Hester Groot is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. She is a historical sociolinguist, focusing on the language of the poor in Late Modern Scotland. Her research specifically looks at pauper letters, written by the poor to request relief from local authorities across Scotland. As part of…

Arturo García De Léon is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology funded by a PhD Grant by the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama (SENACYT).

Ola Uttenweiler is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Charlotte van der Voort is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests revolve around the interface between ancient and modern rhetoric, argumentation theory and philosophy (of language).

Jan Adriaanse is Professor of Turnaround Management at Leiden Law School. He is engaged in research projects in the interdisciplinary field of financial distress, turnaround management and insolvency law. He is an author on these subjects and a regular speaker at international conferences.

Angus Mol is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Gitta Veldt has been a member of the Civil Law Department of the Institute for Private Law since December 2012, first as PhD-fellow and assistant professor, and currently as associate professor.

Jessie Sun is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research interest focuses on how co-speech gestures interact with speech and non-manual articulations in multimodal communications, examined from pragmatics, cultural, gesture, and sociolinguistic perspectives.