Rizal Shidiq is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is an economist by training with primary fields in development economics and monetary theory, and secondary field public choice. His current research topics are on political connections in developing countries,…

Emma Grootveld is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Hongwei Bao is a guest researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Eva Polman joined the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law as a Uytenbogaert PhD candidate in September 2022.

Joris van de Riet is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence, where he is preparing a doctoral thesis on the relevance of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy to international law and international relations.

Simon Willmetts is Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. He is a cultural historian interested in the history of secrecy, intelligence, surveillance and digital privacy. His research focusses upon the wider social and cultural impact of secret intelligence…

Lydie Cabane is senior Assistant Professor at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs. Her main interests include crises, governance, public policy, states, expertise, European Union and global politics.

Reijer Passchier (Haarlem, 28 August 1987) PhD LLM LLB (Leiden University) is an Assistant Professor in Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. He is also a Professor of Digitalisation and the Democratic Constitutional State at the Open University.

Nikki Mulder is a PhD candidate and teacher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. Her dissertation 'Financing Afterlives' examines how racial inequality shapes the consumption and use of life insurance policies in New Orleans, USA. This project is…

Kai Hebel (DPhil, Oxford University) is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Dr. Hebel’s research interests include international security, diplomacy, international history, cultural studies and IR theory. He has published on a wide range of topics, including military intervention, the Cold…

I am a scholar whose research focuses on the modern and contemporary United States. Though a historian by training, my work engages with insights from other disciplines, particularly international relations and American politics. I am currently the principal investigator on the NWO Vidi-funded project…

Yunnan Ye is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Crystal Ennis is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Crystal is a scholar of Global Political Economy whose research examines the political economy of dependency on hydrocarbon revenue and foreign labour in Gulf economies. With a regional focus on the Arabian…

Koen van der Lijn is an intern an education and research staff member at the Institute for Area Studies.

Joren Pronk is PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Jennifer Dowling is a PhD candidate within the research group Terrorism and Political Violence. Jennifer’s PhD research project focuses on understanding why individuals do not cross the threshold to become involved in various forms of political violence. By adopting a qualitative approach, her project…

Geert Jan Groeneveld is professor by special appointment of clinical neuropharmacology at the Leiden University Medical Center. He is a neurologist and clinical pharmacologist and as such sees patients in the pain outpatient clinic of the department of anesthesiology of the LUMC. He is also Chief Medical…

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

Anchrit Wille has held the special chair of Transitions in the public sector established by the 'Stichting Leerstoelen CAOP' since November 2021. In her research she works at the interface of public administration and political science. Central themes include: political-administrative relations in national…

Brendan Carroll is assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration. Carroll examines how member states’ administrative structures adapt to and seek to influence evolving EU policies through their role in the implementation of regulatory policy. In his research on public organizations,…

Eelco van der Maat is a University Lecturer at the institute for History.

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.

Anoma van der Veere is a researcher within the Leiden Asia Centre at Leiden University. He is based at the University of Osaka in Japan and writes about international collaboration and public policy in the fields of technology, education and sport. His research focuses on sport and education through…

Roel Bekker's researches the failures of government: what are government failures, what are the causes of government failures, what are the most used apologies, what can be done to decrease the chance of making failures?

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad.

Lisa Cheng is Professor of General Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests centre upon comparative syntax, and the interactions between syntax and semantics, syntax and prosody, as well as syntax and processing. She is a co-founder of the Leiden Institute…