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• Cracking the code: why platinum electrodes corrode News - 24 January 2025

  An atomic vandal has finally been caught! Scientists from Leiden University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Laboratory have uncovered the mysterious cause behind the rapid corrosion of platinum electrodes. This breakthrough paves the way for more affordable green hydrogen production and…

• ‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’ News - 13 November 2023

  The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic ageing, climate and migration. Even though we know they play a big role in our future.’ Hoekstra therefore hopes that the new coalition agreement will…

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  Chuang Wang PhD candidate / PhD fellow

  c.w.chuang.wang@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274653

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  Wim de Grip Professor emeritus

  w.j.de.grip@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Joan Enrique Romero Postdoc

  j.enrique.romero@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274246

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  Wentian Fu Guest researcher

  w.fu@chem.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kate Vannoy Postdoc / Marie Curie fellow

  k.j.vannoy@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mark Aarts Postdoc

  m.aarts@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274253

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  Nicolas Magnard Postdoc

  n.p.l.magnard@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hao Yang Postdoc / Marie Curie fellow

  h.yang@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan Fingerhut Postdoc

  j.fingerhut@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Melina Vavali Postdoc

  m.vavali@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Diyu Zhang Guest researcher

  d.zhang@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rifael Zvi Sol Postdoc

  r.z.sol@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274250

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  Bonho Koo Postdoc / Marie Curie fellow

  b.koo@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Katharina Doblhoff-Dier Assistant professor

  k.doblhoff-dier@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272366

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  Darío Barreiro Lage Postdoc

  d.barreiro.lage@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Shitha Korachamkandy Postdoc

  s.v.korachamkandy@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alfred Larsson Postdoc / Guest

  a.larsson@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 46761873596

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  Rafaël Vos Guest researcher

  r.e.vos@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Elahe Motaee Postdoc

  e.motaee@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Steffen Hardt

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  Anouk Zandbergen Network coordinator Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion

  Administration and Central Services

  a.e.zandbergen@bb.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Marco Schönig Guest

  m.schonig@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Information meeting Urban Governance of Inclusive Sustainable Cities programme Event - 13 March 2025

• NWO funding for just and effective energy transitions News - 4 April 2022

  A consortium led by Eefje Cuppen, Professor Governance of Sustainability at the Institute of Public Administration, has been granted NWO funding for a research project looking into the social, societal, and technical aspects of the energy transition.

• Transformational leadership: Capacity Building for Equitable and Sustainable Change Course

  Study support

• transformational leadership: Capacity building for equitable and sustainable change Course

  Study support

• Higher CO2 levels are making our food more calorific and less nutritious Food crops News - 14 November 2025

  More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more calorific, less nutritious and potentially more toxic.

• Researchers awarded NWO grants for green technology and new enzymes News - 23 March 2026

  Developing safer alternatives to harmful PFAS filters and seeking new enzymes for medical applications. Two projects with Leiden researchers have been awarded funding through the Dutch Research Council's (NWO) Open Technology programme.

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  Eric Cezne Postdoc

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  e.m.cezne@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Ammonia as a clean fuel: ‘Do not create a new nitrogen problem’ News - 20 April 2026

  Ammonia has been feeding the world for decades as a fertiliser and is now rapidly emerging as a carbon free fuel for shipping and industry. But if we focus only on CO₂ emissions, we risk creating new nitrogen problems, warns nitrogen expert Jan Willem Erisman in the journal One Earth.

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• Gaia sees strange stars in most detailed Milky Way survey to date News - 13 June 2022

  Today, ESA’s Gaia mission releases its new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy. Astronomers, led by the Leiden astronomer Anthony Brown, describe strange ‘starquakes’, stellar DNA, asymmetric motions and other fascinating insights in this most detailed Milky Way survey to date.

• Chemotherapy without side effects: Matthijs Hakkennes helps find the needle in the haystack faster News - 20 April 2026

  Chemotherapy, but without hair loss or extreme fatigue. It may be possible if the toxic drug only becomes active where it is ‘switched on’ by light. Matthijs Hakkennes has helped bring that idea closer to reality and obtained his PhD cum laude. ‘I received many thank-you emails from China and Bangla…

• Electric boats will make University construction projects cleaner News - 15 February 2023

  No more smelly lorries disposing of building waste or delivering building materials to the centre of Leiden. That’s Leiden University’s ambition for its future renovation or construction projects in the city centre. Electric boats should make the process cleaner and less inconvenient for the people…

• A better world begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights News - 30 November 2023

  Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.

• Anthropologist Andrew Littlejohn on NU.nl: 'With Trump taking office, the tide is turning on disaster management'" News - 23 October 2025

  More than twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United States with nearly 1,400 deaths. Due to climate change, the lessons from this disaster are more relevant than ever, but the Trump administration seems to be ignoring them by cutting funding for disaster management. Anthropologist…

• How science informs policy: ‘As a researcher, my work only becomes truly relevant once it is used in society’ News - 11 December 2025

  Green cities and a well-protected food system: Roy Remme and Oliver Taherzadeh study ways to achieve these. But how can their scientific findings lead to societal change? They share their experiences with science-policy initiatives.

• Leiden research that matters: how science is shaping European pesticide policy News - 3 March 2026

  Leiden ecotoxicologist Martina Vijver helped shake a European policy proposal in a single weekend. Not with a new experiment, but with years of research on pesticides – and an urgent letter that reached Brussels.

• Your old smartphone is indispensable for the energy transition News - 6 February 2024

  By 2050, we can obtain 40 per cent of our demand for scarce earth metals from old smartphones, batteries, and wind turbines. This is crucial because otherwise, we may not have enough to accomplish the energy transition. An international team of researchers from China, the UK, and Leiden's Tomer Fishman…

• Who will pay for our energy transition? News - 1 December 2023

  The Dutch Development Bank's new SDG loan fund for green energy in the global south may not be as positive as it seems. Anthropology professor Marja Spierenburg raises concerns about its potential impact on local communities.

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  Marja Spierenburg Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.j.spierenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276699

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  Younes Akabli PhD candidate

  y.akabli@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 000 0000000

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  Emma Carels PhD candidate

  e.j.carels@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marten Raaphorst PhD candidate

  m.t.raaphorst@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274246

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  Floris van den Bosch PhD candidate

  f.van.den.bosch@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jordy Eggebeen PhD candidate

  j.j.j.eggebeen@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274452

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  Laurens de Jong PhD candidate

  l.p.m.de.jong@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marinka de Willigen PhD candidate

  m.j.e.de.willigen@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727