Hoe kijken Nederlandse bedrijven naar online prijsdiscriminatie? Kimia Heidary, Bart Custers, Helen Pluut en Jean-Pierre van der Rest schreven hier een artikel over.

The Jan Brouwer thesis award for social sciences 2015 was awarded last April 14th to Master graduate in Public Administration Raffael Hanschmann for his thesis “The impact of the economic crisis on EU environmental policy making. Insights from discourse network analysis”.

Met de H.E. van Gelder Onderzoeksbeurs wordt beoogd interdisciplinair onderzoek naar munten, bankbiljetten en penningen van een impuls te voorzien. De beurs heeft een waarde van € 10.000 en stelt de onderzoeker (m/v) in de gelegenheid een publicatie voor te bereiden en aan de hand daarvan vervolgonderzoek…

Binnen het project 'Architectuur en het magnifieke: Vorm geven aan inherente grootsheid in vijftiende-eeuws Antwerpen, Rouen en Straatsburg' is er plek voor een PhD-student. Geïnteresseerde kandidaten kunnen hun dossier overmaken aan prof. dr. Nele De Raedt (nele.deraedt@uclouvain.be) vóór 15 oktober…

Het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden zoekt twee stagiairs (v/m) voor het project ‘Het jaar 1000’, voor de periode september t/m december 2021. In dit project wordt Nederland in Europese context in de 10de en 11de eeuw bestudeerd. Deadline: 15 april 2021.

De Prix de Paris is een aanmoedigingsprijs voor jong, Nederlands talent. Deze prijs (ter waarde van 15.000 EUR) is bedoeld ter stimulering van wetenschappelijk onderzoek over Frankrijk. De deadline voor aanmeldingen is 1 mei 2021.

Gerrit van Dijk was born on 14th August 1939 in Kampen. He studied Mathematics in Utrecht where he also received his PhD in 1969 on the thesis ‘Spherical functions on the p-adic group PGL(2)’. His supervisor was prof. dr. T.A. Springer. The academic year 1969-1970 he spent in Princeton, at the Institute…

Inaugural lecture

Astronomers want to understand the Universe, from the Big Bang to the present day, and what the future will hold. In Leiden they focus on two key questions: ‘How did stars and planets originate’ and ‘How were galaxies and black holes formed in the young Universe?’ A new generation of telescopes – just…

Research in the arts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA)  

PhD defence

Virtual Reality komt steeds dichter binnen handbereik van docenten en studenten. Hoe zou Virtual Reality kunnen bijdragen aan de leerervaringen van uw studenten? Vrijdag 19 februari, kwam een groep van ruim twintig docenten en experts af op een bijeenkomst over deze vraag in Studiecentrum Plexus. Met…

The Dutch municipality of Deventer recently organised an open tender to grant a coffeeshop licence, drawing 1035 responses. Annemarie Drahmann, associate professor in administrative law, commented in ‘Trouw’ newspaper about this procedure.

Wat kun je als burger doen wanneer de overheid je persoonsgegevens gebruikt en daarmee besluiten neemt waar je het niet mee eens bent? Fatma Çapkurt promoveerde op een onderzoek hiernaar. Burgers moeten verwerking van hun gegevens beter kunnen beoordelen.

Heb jij je al ingeschreven voor Groene Peper?

Mmmonk en het Henri Pirenne Instituut voor Middeleeuwse Studies (UGent) organiseren eind 2024 de tweede editie van Mmmonk School: Lessen voor gevorderde beginners rond het middeleeuwse boek. Mmmonk School biedt een interdisciplinair praktijkgericht programma over middeleeuwse Vlaamse manuscripten. Experts…

De Utrechtse Universiteitsbibliotheek afdeling Bijzondere Collecties en het NWO-project Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages hebben ruimte voor vier stagiairs. Je gaat stagelopen bij de UBU Bijzondere collecties en bij het NWO-onderzoeksproject Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages.…

Welcome to Leiden University's Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme! GTGC explores how innovative policies and governance arrangements can address global challenges in democratic, effective, fair, peaceful and sustainable ways.

The majority of scientists, from archaeologists through to zoologists, collect enormous volumes of data. Their massive databases contain large amounts of information which is difficult for humans to filter. With a solid grounding in statistics and computer science, we can develop algorithms for analyzing…

Researchers at LIACS are working to devise the computers of tomorrow that will be the backbone of the Cloud and Edge computing paradigms as well as the Internet of Things. In this respect, we are involved in research and development of high performance computing systems, embedded & real-time computing…

Do citizens care for interest representation? A study on citizens’ perceptions and feelings towards the representative potential of civil society

Leiden University offers ambitious students the latest knowledge and the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.

LIACS organizes different lectures and colloquia, like the Florence Nightingale Colloquium, LCN2 Seminars, the Ada Lovelace Distinguished Lecture Series and the OTICS Colloquium.

Leiden University provides ambitious students with the most recent and innovative areas of knowledge, and offers them the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.

Leiden University offers ambitious students the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.

What are the institutional dynamics of the adoption of internal market legislation?

The Research Skills Assessment aims to assess the academic research skills of the person doing the assignment. Successful evaluation of the assessment is a requirement for admission into the Creative Intelligence & Technology MSc program of Leiden University.

PhD defence

On the passing of Anique Schüller

With Muslim Futures, our ambition is to create spaces where imagination leads. In an increasingly destabilizing global context, where climate, economic, and social crises expose the limits of current systems, people across disciplines are beginning to ask: 'What kind of society do we want to live in?'…

On this page you will find an overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2023, as well as special appointments at Leiden University and other institutions.

On this page you can find information about previous CCLS events.

Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…

Het Huygens Instituut zoekt een of twee studentassistenten voor het project eCodicesNL.

PhD defence

Dr Ionica Smeets, one of the well-known ‘Maths girls’, has been appointed part-time Professor of Science Communication at Leiden University with effect from 1 July. Over the coming five years she will carry out research on science communication, how the subject is taught and how to raise students’ enthusiasm…

Marieke Adriaanse is Professor of Behavioural Interventions in Population Health and researches behavioural science issues in health. She advocates for better interdisciplinary collaboration and a new form of recognition and rewards within academia. ‘We have to stop being so blinkered,’ she says in…

How did Leiden University score in terms of sustainability this year?

Nationale Week Zonder Vlees is een landelijke campagne en wordt breed gedragen door diverse partners uit de voedselindustrie!⠀

The First Americans exhibition in the National Museum of Ethnology showcases the resilience and creativity of native Americans. Striking artworks, fashion and prints show that the past is never far away. Artist Jacob Meders was inspired by 16th-century prints from the Leiden University Library. The…

Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is important to understanding our history.

Cooperation with Latin America aims to build on the long-standing relation that Leiden University has with multiple partners in the region.