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.

Adrien Dadone is a researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is deaf and comes from France. He is in Leiden for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Adrien's research focuses on the emergence of sign languages and phenomena of contact with coverbal gestures. He is also interested in studying sign…

Mandy de Wilde is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. The core question driving her work is how ecological sustainability plays out in local practices, and the situated harms as well as the opportunities that emerge from it.

Tycho started as a PhD researcher at Leiden University for the Nationaal Kennisprogramma Stikstof in collaboration with the Meteorology and Air Quality group of Wageningen University and Research, RIVM, TNO and KNMI.

Nina Jaspers is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Nadia Bouras is a historian with a specialization in the history of Moroccan migration. Holding a PhD in history from Leiden University, she serves as an assistent professor in social and migration history at the same institution. Bouras is closely affiliated with NIMAR, the Netherlands Institute in…

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.

Susana Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. With a PhD in medical translation, her research intersects machine translation, AI, health communication, and migration.…

Reinout Vriesendorp has been a part-time Professor of Insolvency Law at the Institute of Private Law (Department of Company Law) and the Institute of Tax Law and Economics (Department of Business Studies) since 1 January 2016.

Gert-Jan Boon LL.M. MSc is a researcher and lecturer at Leiden Law School's departments of Company Law and Financial Law and Business Studies. Prior to this, he completed his master's degree in Marketing (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Corporate Law (Leiden University). He conducts research in the…

Frans Theuws is Professor of Medieval Archaeology of Europe. He is the Principle investigator of the ERC funded project Rural Riches.

Karin de Wild is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Museum and Collection Studies at Leiden University. Her current research is about digital heritage collections.

Tuomas Aivelo is interested in small-scale everyday multispecies encounters in backyards, kitchen counters and trash cans as these have the power to shape the world from biodiversity to human institutions. In addition to lectures and scientific publications, Tuomas shares his observations in public…

Ayokunu (‘Ayo’) Adedokun is a political scientist, international development specialist and peacebuilding practitioner. His research focuses on the roles of local actors and the international community in peacebuilding, terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies, democratization and good governance…

Bianca Boyer is an associate professor in the unit of Developmental and Educational Psychology. She studies the effectiveness of treatments for children and adolescents with neurobiological developmental disorders, particularly ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Dusan Maczek is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Nathalie Brusgaard is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Valentina Azzarà is an honorary research fellow at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Gert Oostindie is Professor Emeritus of Colonial and Postcolonial History at Leiden University and former Director of the KITLV / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

Niek Strohmaier obtained his Bachelor and Master degree (cum laude) in Psychology at Utrecht University and in 2016 he commenced his PhD research at Leiden University’s Law School. His dissertation was on the psychology of financial and legal decision making in the context of business failure. During…

Stefano Bellucci is university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Iyute Deborah Oyuu is a PhD candidate and as a Deaf person, she uses Sign language to communicate. Iyute Deborah is attached to Through the Hands of Signers Project which is under the coordination of Dr. Victoria Nyst from the Department of Linguistics. Iyute Deborah is a Sign Language & Disability…

Inocêncio Joao Raul Zandamela is a deaf PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. He is pursuing his degree in research on Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Science of Education from College of St. Rose, New York- US and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from…

Marcel Keurentjes is a historian who is specialized in Non-Western History, Cold War history and in Game studies. Currently he is working on his PhD about Cold War themed video games.

Dunja Wackers is a postdoctoral researcher in the research group Quantum & Society (part of Science Communication and Society, IBL, and LION). She is a linguist specialised in argumentation analysis and metaphor analysis. Her current research focuses on the use of metaphors in popular-scientific…

Matthew DiGiuseppe is an associate professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.

Jürgen Zangenberg is professor for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Camilla Marraccini is is a guest PhD candidate at the Institute for History.