Thanja Lamberts is an assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Leiden Observatory. Her group focuses on computational astrochemistry to unravel which molecules can be formed efficiently in the dense regions of the interstellar medium. She is particularly interested in the chemistry…

What can we expect from the teacher coaches in the coming year? University lecturers Astrid Van Weyenberg and Maarten van Leeuwen talk about their plans.

Soft structures that can take on different shapes without any external drive. Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio created them in their lab. They present their groundbreaking research on microscale metamaterials in Nature - a breakthrough that opens the door to smart, reconfigurable materials…

Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People

Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar

Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network

Maarten Feteris, the former president of the Court of Appeal and an alumnus of Leiden University, composed the piece ‘Intermezzo’ to mark the transfer of the rectorate during the Dies Natalis on 8 February 2021.

Oussama Macnack is external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Louie Krol is a PhD candidate at the CML and NCOH focussing on prediction of tipping points of mosquito populations and mosquito-transmitted disease risk in a changing world.

Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed Ali is a PhD student at the Centre for Linguistics.

Sanne is affiliated to Leiden University as external PhD since August 2023. She also works at the Dutch Victim Offences Compensation Fund.

Dante Hoek is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University since February 2023. Her doctoral research uses Virtual reality to investigate why violence occurs in prison.

Marianne Franken is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Milan van Berlo is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Roosmarijn van Es is a lecturer in criminology at the Insitute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Jordy is a PhD researcher at the Department of Environmental Biology of CML, studying the impact of climate change on mosquitoes and vector-borne disease risk.

Didactics

Conference

Healthy lifestyle campaigns are often unsuccessful. It is hard to get people to eat healthily or do more exercise. Behavioural science expertise should be drawn on at a much earlier stage in policy development, say twelve behavioural scientists in a position paper. They will present the paper to Maarten…

Ten years ago, a new reward system was introduced in Dutch prisons: the only way prisoners could earn extra ‘freedoms’ was through good behaviour. Jan Maarten Elbers concludes that this system does little to encourage behavioural change and can even be counterproductive.

Leiden’s Rapenburg canal was transformed into a magical open-air stage for the jubilee edition of the Leiden Canal Concert, as hundreds gathered to celebrate 450 years of Leiden University. The concert featured an orchestra made up of students and staff performing alongside local artists.

Salt crystals, a nano-sized golf stick and molten glass. The LION Image Award competition of 2023 yielded a lot of beautiful images once again. But in the end, only one can be the winner.

Communication, Working effectively, Transferable skills

Sietse van Mierlo is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Philosophy.

Stephan Raaijmakers is a professor of Communicative AI at the Centre for Linguistics.

Daniel Pantoja is a visiting PhD candidate at the Insitute for Philosophy.

Zhaole Yang is a University Lecturer of Chinese language and language pedagogy at the Institute for Area Studies.

Marion Elenbaas is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Koenraad Schalm studies string theory and its connections to models of particle physics and cosmology in particular.

Jörg Meyer investigates energy conversion at interfaces at the atomic scale. Starting from the Schrödinger equation, he develops and employs computer simulation techniques.

The new Student Support Team visits university buildings where upsetting incidents have happened, offering support to students in need.