Zhuoyi Luo is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Vincent Brussee’s research focus is on the application of data science for contemporary China Studies, looking specifically at domestic policy and governance. In addition, he is interested in surveillance and censorship in China and worldwide. He has been a regular media commentator, having appeared…

Tianmu Hong is a PhD candidate at the LIAS

My research focuses on Israeli Studies and China–Israel relations. I hold an MRes in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter (UK) and an MA in Diplomacy from Shanghai International Studies University (China), and have served as a conference secretary for the International Forum on Asia and…

From 2018, Anne Gerritsen holds the Chair of Asian Art at Leiden University. This position is generously sponsored by the Royal Asian Art Society in the Netherlands, Hulsewé Wazniewski Foundation, Isaac Alfred Ailion Foundation, Foundation for the Study of China at Leiden University, and the Jan Menze…

Yiya Chen is a Professor of Phonetics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She studies the sounds of languages with an interdisciplinary approach. The broad goal of her research is to understand the language structures and cognitive mechanisms that underlie speech and speech communication.…

Lindsay Black is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Tian Yang is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. Tian is currently investigating how users perceive the output of machine translation by using eye tracking.

Siran Huang is an PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

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…

Hein Drop is an external PhD candidate / guest at the Institute for History.

Niels van der Salm is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

Yuyang Wei is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

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Adam Ramadhan is a PhD candidate working on the social and intellectual history of early Shiʿi Islam as part of the ERC Starting Grant funded project Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE.

Mustafa Colak is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Didem Yerli is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Chinese Studies, History or Urban Studies? How do you choose the right degree programme for you? Hundreds of prospective students tried to find out at the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague. A new formula helped them on their way.

Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…

Xuan Tang is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

I am a University Lecturer in Global Political Economy of China at the Institute for Area Studies. I also work in the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Stimulus Program at Leiden. I study environmental politics and international political economy with an emphasis on developing countri…

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.

Martijn van Ette is a PhD-candidate at Leiden's Institute for History. Being part of Dr. Andrew Gawthorpe's NWO-funded project that focusses on American foreign policy and (il)liberalism, he focuses on Southeast Asia and the perceptions that shaped America's strategic interpretations of the region.

Berthe Jansen is Assistant Professor of Tibetan Studies at Leiden University. She has a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the same university. Jansen has wide academic interests but most have to do with the confluence of religion and society. Her monograph The Monastery Rules: Tibetan Monastic Organization…

From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Leiden University has six top bachelor's programmes according to Keuzigids universiteiten 2025, a consumer guide to university programmes. This puts Leiden in fourth place of the broad-based universities.

The University Council meeting on 2 June was largely dominated by the demonstration, occupation and policing in The Hague last month.

Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are confronted with these on a daily basis. A group that is often not included in research and the debate on racism is people of Asian descent. The Diversity…

Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.

The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.