Charlotte Poot (31) is co-founder and chair of Hospital Hero, an app that prepares children for a hospital visit. She studied and obtained her PhD at the LUMC.

In line with the university and faculty ambition: ‘Future-oriented development of students’, from now on all FSW bachelor students can follow a three-year elective, faculty programme with certificate for personal-professional development, the programme starts with current first-year students; they are…

Eva started her interfaculty PhD at the Department of Environmental Biology in July 2023 focussing on transformative change and knowledge transfer in the science-policy interface.

I am a social anthropologist, trained at Harvard (BA) and SOAS, University of London (MARes, PhD), with a broad interest in urban spaces and the forces that shape our lives in and around them. I have conducted fieldwork in North, Western and East Africa on topics ranging from informal housing, gendered…

Professor Castermans has been a Professor of Private Law at the Institute for Private Law since 1 September 2007.

Armin Cuvyers is full Professor of European Law at the Europa Institute of Leiden University, where he holds the chair in EU Constitutional Law and Comparative Regional Integration. He is also the head of the department of European law and Director of CompaRe, the Leiden Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence…

Bernard Bernards is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University. His research and teaching focusses on topics of professional decision-making, uncertainty, leadership, and bureaucracy, with a specific focus on the domain of health and welfare.

Indira Huliselan is a PhD candidate in the research project 'Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire'.

My main fundamental research interest is computational network science. I focus on methods and algorithms for knowledge discovery from (social) network data. Through various projects, I also work on real-world applications, e.g., corporate networks, networks in economics, finance, science, infrastructure…

Hannah De Mulder is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Hannah Spencer is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University.

Software development is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a sociologist. Three years ago, John Boy began developing his software package Textnets. Because of Corona, he was less able to concentrate on writing scientific research and also setting up the online courses…

Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Rafał Matuszewski is an assistant professor at the Institute for History.

Christine Mertens (1994) is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University and at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg.

Damian Alan Pargas is Professor of the History and Culture of North America at Leiden University and executive director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg. He is mainly specialized in the history of slavery and its aftermath.

Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Comparative Urban History at the Institute for History.

Ann Brysbaert is Professor in Ancient technology, crafts and materials at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Professor B.H.M. (Bart) Custers PhD MSc LLM is full Professor of Law and Data Science and head of eLaw, Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University.

I study the functional genetics of egg development time in the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), with the aim of determining the adaptive potential of this trait in wild insect populations in response to climate change.

Michael Liu is an external PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society.

Carla Cisternas Guasch is a PhD candidate at the department of Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University. She is also a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Arts at the Universidad Mayor, Chile.

Elsa Mertala is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. She is part of the ERC project Diversity Outdoors: Embodied Ethnoracial Inequalities and Outdoor Recreation in Europe.