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• Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for Rüya Akdağ News - 11 August 2022

  Rüya Akdağ is part of a research team with the aim of further studying social anxiety. The Leiden psychologist receives the grant for her doctoral research on the role of emotions and cognition in the emergence and occurrence of social anxiety in adolescents.

• Two researchers receive Rubicon grant for research abroad News - 22 April 2024

  Uncovering ageing processes in the brain and research on the use of the word ‘that’. Thanks to a Rubicon Grant, two Leiden researchers who were recently awarded their PhDs will be able to conduct research at a research institute abroad.

• Travel reveals the mind News - 16 April 2021

  Exploring the minds of our primate cousins in the wild, using under-exploited observations of their travel paths. A large set of observations of the travel paths of wild primates provides new opportunities for in-depth insights in the evolution of the mental abilities that primates, including ourselves,…

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  Sarah de Lange Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.l.de.lange@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Joris van de Riet Researcher/lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.t.j.van.de.riet@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277651

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  Marieke Adriaanse Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  m.a.adriaanse@lumc.nl | 071 5279500

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  Gianclaudio Malgieri Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.malgieri@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Emma Everaert Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.everaert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jet Bussemaker Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  m.bussemaker@lumc.nl | 070 8009047

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  Valerie Frissen Professor by special appointment Digital Technologies and Social Change

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  v.a.j.frissen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Andreas Kinneging Professor Philosophy of Law

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.a.m.kinneging@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277654

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  Jenny Audring Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.audring@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272247

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  Maarten van Leeuwen University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272073

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  Henrik Barmentlo Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  s.h.barmentlo@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277479

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  Diederik Smit Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.e.j.smit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272705

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  Bart Labuschagne Lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.c.labuschagne@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277540

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  Henrike Jansen Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272131

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  Gera van Duijvenvoorde Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.p.van.duijvenvoorde@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Gerrit-Jan Zwenne Professor Law and Digital technologies

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.j.zwenne@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Lauren Lauret Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.b.lauret@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272772

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  Roosje Peeters PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.m.m.peeters@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272699

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  Timo Slootweg Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  t.j.m.slootweg@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278934

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  Bibi van den Berg Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  b.van.den.berg@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Ton van Haaften Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.van.haaften@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bart Schermer Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.w.schermer@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Sarah Giest Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  s.n.giest@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009084

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  Arco Timmermans Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  a.timmermans@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Anne Stiggelbout Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  a.m.stiggelbout@lumc.nl | 071 5264575

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  Thijs Vos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.j.vos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Subsidie voor Shelley van der Veek om peuters gezonde eetgewoonten aan te leren News - 21 June 2022

  Het onderzoeksproject heeft als doel ouders te helpen hun kleuters gezonde eetgewoonten aan te leren door het bevorderen van sensitieve voeding tijdens de fase wanneer peuters kieskeurig met eten worden.

• Education in Ancient Egypt: 'Everyone Used the Same Text' News - 22 October 2024

  For hundreds of years, children in Ancient Egypt learned to read using The Satire of the Trades, a text in which a father gives advice to his son through descriptions of different professions. PhD candidate Judith Jurjens investigated how this worked in practice.

• Ellen de Bruijn about the social context of making mistakes and learning from it News - 15 December 2022

  During the event 'Fout?' by De Jonge Akademie, Ellen de Bruijn held a lecture about the social context of making mistakes and the psychological elements of learning from it.

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  Nadia Garnefski Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  garnefski@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273774

• Who are the winners of the Psychology Prizes of 2024? News - 19 December 2024

  Psychology teacher of the year is Evelien Broekhof. The Master Thesis Awards are for Yanna Naeije and Arian Memarpouri. Mirjam Wever wins the PhD Paper Prize; Jip Aarts wins the PhD Wild Card: Academic Citizenship. Congratulations!

• Symposium: Inzet van reviews na moord en doodslag in huiselijke kring Event - 31 January 2025

  Conference

• Foraging skills may have made the essential difference in the evolution of our huge brain News - 7 February 2023

  Hunter-gatherers acquire their food through complex gender-specific foraging techniques for a relatively stable and diverse supply of energy. New research indicates that this specialisation by boys and girls starts at a very young age. Most likely, this enabled the human species to evolve much larger…

• Projects 2023-2024

  In 2023-2024 seven (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

• ‘A damaged ecosystem can’t be "fixed" in 3 years’ News - 22 January 2026

  Often landscape restoration is seen as a quick technical fix, when a long-term and more sensitive approach is necessary. Within her PhD research, conducted over the past five years in South Africa, Ancois de Villiers explored how we can change this approach. ‘A damaged ecosystem can’t be "fixed" in…

• PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means News - 20 June 2024

  Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does it work in other languages? PhD candidate Camil Staps decided to find out.

• New insights into characteristics of Conduct Disorder with "limited prosocial emotions" News - 4 May 2021

  In a recent study, Dr. Moji Aghajani and colleagues show that adolescents with a severe form of Conduct Disorder (CD) -with limited prosocial emotions- require an unusually large amount of brain capacity to read emotional faces. These effects were found in comparison to CD youth without limited prosocial…

• Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships News - 20 July 2022

  Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic 2.0 programme is aimed at an underrepresented group of graduates with a migrant background.

• authoritarianism"? The case of the Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación en Reforma Agraria ICIRA in Chile 1960- 1979 Event - 5 October 2023

  Lecture

• From Modern Marvel to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa News - 2 October 2024

  At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.

• Honours Class makes cultural heritage tangible: ‘You are dealing with people’ News - 22 April 2022

  An Honours Class about the ostensibly unrecognisable worlds of insular Southeast Asia teaches students a fundamental piece of wisdom: "We do not differ much from the people at the other end of the world."

• Four Leiden professors elected members of the KHMW News - 24 February 2025

  The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed four Leiden professors as members. Petra Sijpesteijn, Vanessa Mak, Mariska Kret and Miranda van Eck have recently joined the KHMW.

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus by special appointment of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language News - 31 January 2025

  In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.

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  Jonathan Benichov Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  j.i.benichov@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275980

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  Michiel van Elk Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.van.elk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jurriaan Witteman Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.witteman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278031