From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...

The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus strategic alliance (LDE) had reason to celebrate on 17 June, when the Executive Boards of Leiden University, TU Delft and Era...

Leiden University has published its Annual Report for 2018. Although it too has faced complex themes in the last year such as staff workload, internat...

Not a straight road in sight, but instead a route through buildings, alleyways and gardens that aren't usually open to the public. As in previous year...

Rembrandt lived long before audio and video recordings were invented. But a group of researchers has managed to reconstruct his voice. How? Lecturer i...

‘Connecting with society’ is one of the main points of the ministerial research policy for the coming years. Policy officer Marcel Belderbos talks abo...

To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation 'Walcherse Ketens', Gerhard de Kok looks at Vliss...

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Frits Koning are confidential counsellors for academic integrity at Leiden University. Koning is the confidential co...

In the coming year, several relocations will take place in order to be able to continue offering education on the campus. Due to renovations of the pr...

Since the end of May, the Faculty of Humanities 'Humanities Matter' art route has been on display. Due to the many positive responses, we have decided...

Between the humanities Dean Mark Rutgers and his busy schedule we can find board secretary Jonique van Hooff. Her task is to make sure that the Dean g...

Novelist and essayist Karin Amatmoekrim will be writer-in-residence at Leiden University in autumn 2019. She will be the 35th writer-in-residence at t...

Proud family members, lecturers and, above all, students congregated in the Van Steenis building on 27 June to celebrate the students' having complete...

Leonard Blussé, emeritus Professor in the History of European and Asian relations, will receive the prestigious Japanese Academic Fukuoka Prize. Bluss...

The Executive Board of Leiden University has distanced itself from the Minister of Education, Culture and Science’s response to the Van Rijn Committee...