Most of the University’s research profiles transcend faculty boundaries. The Executive Board allocated funds to the profiles in two rounds, the second of which runs until 2018. With these research profiles the University hopes to achieve the following aims:

1. To stimulate interdisciplinary research
2. To increase the external visibility of research at Leiden
3. To strengthen our position in securing external funds

Leaders and coordinators

Each research profile has a number of leaders. These are key researchers from one of the faculties involved in the profile. Also, each research profile is coordinated by a dean. Various activities have been initiated within the research profiles to achieve the aims mentioned above. These include awarding funding to research projects, holding seminars and conferences or helping researchers to develop research ideas.

Eleven research profiles

The eleven research profiles are listed below, together with the participating faculties and leaders. The coordinating faculty is in italics.

• Fundamentals of Science (Faculty of Science)

  Leaders: Carlo Beenakker and Ewine van Dishoeck (Faculty of Science)

• Bioscience: the Science Base of Health (LUMC, Faculty of Science)

  Leaders: Jaap Brouwer (Faculty of Science) and Hans Tanke (LUMC)

• Translational Drug Discovery and Development (Faculty of Science, LUMC)

  Leaders: Piet Hein van der Graaf (Faculty of Science) and Henk-Jan Guchelaar (LUMC)

• Vascular and Regenerative Medicine (LUMC)

  Leaders: Ton Rabelink, Wim Fibbe and Christine Mummery (LUMC)

• Brain Function and Dysfunction over the Lifespan (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, LUMC)

  Leaders: Serge Rombouts and Mark van Buchem (LUMC), Paul van den Broek and Bernhard Hommel (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)

• Health, Prevention and the Human Life Cycle (LUMC,Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)

  Leaders: Andrea Evers (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) and Mattijs Numans (LUMC)

• Interaction between Legal Systems (Faculty of Law)

  Leaders: Simone van der Hof, Jorrit Rijpma, Olaf van Vliet (Faculty of Law)

• Political Legitimacy: Institutions and Identities (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Law)

  Leaders: Henk te Velde (Faculty of Humanities), Ruud Koole (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) and Wim Voermans (Faculty of Law)

• Asian Modernities and Traditions (Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Law)

  Leaders: Ivo Smits, Nira Wickramasinghe and Remco Breuker (Faculty of Humanities), Adriaan Bedner (Faculty of Law) and Bart Barendregt (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)

• Global Interaction of People, Culture and Power Through the Ages (Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Archaeology)

  Leaders: Maarten Jansen (Faculty of Archaeology), Peter Pels (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Petra Sijpesteijn and Catia Antunes (Faculty of Humanities)

• Language Diversity in the World (Faculty of Humanities)

  Leaders: Lisa Cheng, Sasha Lubotsky, Maarten Mous, Ton van Haaften, Niels Schiller (Faculty of Humanities)