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• The colonial contacts of the firm De Heyder & Co: ‘Completely intertwined with the colonial market’ News - 17 November 2025

  The Lakenhal depot houses three nineteenth-century sample books in which the cotton company De Heyder & Co kept precise records of who placed which orders. History student Marit Scheepsma used them to find out more about the company's colonial contacts.

• Online discussion: Is a River Alive? Event - 9 December 2025

  Online discussion

• Academia in Motion symposium and Town Hall meeting Event - 12 May 2026

  Conference

• ERC-grant for Sebastian Pomplun to cure disease by controlling gene expression with synthetic transcription factors News - 30 March 2022

  Sebastian Pomplun receives an ERC starting grant of 1.85 million Euros in five years. He wants to develop synthetic transcription factors that can enter cells and activate or deactivate specific genes. For example to disrupt cancer-related processes or to trigger the production of an important missing…

• Philosophical Explorations: What is a Good Life? Event - 6 March 2025

  Lecture

• A quick call with Caroline de Ruijter about the Kiem grants for interdisciplinary collaboration News - 23 May 2023

  Be it in climate change, public health or artificial intelligence, when different disciplines join forces, science often flourishes. The new small-scale Kiem grants will enable Leiden researchers to explore or start collaborative projects with colleagues from other faculties. ‘So seek each other out…

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272027

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  Marga Sikkema-de Jong Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  jongtm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273881

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  Anne-Isabelle Richard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.i.richard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271399

• PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past? News - 19 April 2022

  What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.

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  Hanna Swaab Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  hswaab@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274060

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  Marco Cinelli Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  m.cinelli@luc.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Bram Caers University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.j.m.caers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278010

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277308

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  Kate Bellamy Postdoctoral Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273983

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  Susanna de Beer Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671

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  Rens Tacoma Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.e.tacoma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272632

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  Victor Klinkenberg Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.v.klinkenberg.3@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anna Dlabacova Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.dlabacova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272119

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  Anika Bexkens Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.bexkens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276566

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  Marieke Tollenaar Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.s.tollenaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273454

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272193

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  Louis Verreth PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.verreth@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anne Gerritsen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.t.gerritsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sara Velthuizen Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.l.m.velthuizen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan van Dijkhuizen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.van.dijkhuizen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272147

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  Kristiaan van der Heijden Vice Dean / Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  kbheijden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274003

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  Fenneke Sysling Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.h.sysling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272737

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news News - 22 March 2024

  LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".

• How extensive is a grammar? Explorations in measuring grammatical descriptions Event - 14 October 2025

  Lecture, LUCL Colloquium

• Political Scientist Adina Akbik Joins Young Academy Leiden News - 14 June 2024

  Adina Akbik has been appointed as a new member of the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) as of 1 September 2024. Akbik is Senior Assistant Professor of European Politics at Leiden University. YAL serves as a platform for early career academics, and Akbik is keen to promote the needs and interests of young researchers…

• Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia Event - 22 January 2026

  Conference

• Vein Men / Vein Women? Bloodletting Diagrams, Medical Practice and Gender in Later Medieval Europe Event - 21 November 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers News - 8 January 2024

  What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Mariken Teeuwen will talk about the texts they wrote in the margin.

• Scientific integrity

  Scientific integrity is an important element in the PhD trajectory, and is addressed in several different settings.

• Veronica Tamorri comes to Leiden with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship News - 2 March 2023

  Since November 2022, Veronica Tamorri has been a new face at the Faculty of Archaeology. Originally from Rome, she joined the Faculty with a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship. Here she is studying human remains from early Egypt and Nubia (Sudan) using bioarchaeological methodologies.…

• No one is a censor: How Chinese book editors consider potential consequences of their decisions Event - 30 April 2025

  Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series

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  Annelou van Gijn Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.l.van.gijn@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272389

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  Sarah Cramsey Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278825

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  Bleda Düring Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276449

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  Alexander Geurds Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.geurds@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272206

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  Constant Hijzen Research Fellow

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  c.w.hijzen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

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  Mariana Françozo Associate Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.de.campos.francozo@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272437

• Alex Tutwiler receives Archol grant to reveal hidden stories of child labor News - 8 December 2025

  PhD candidate Alex Tutwiler, from the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a grant from Archol, via the P.J.R. Modderman Foundation, to investigate how child labor shaped the bones of Dutch children between the 17th and 19th centuries. Using CT scans, she aims to build a more comprehensive picture of…

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  Peter Akkermans Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Archaeology

  p.m.m.g.akkermans@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michiel Westenberg Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  westenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Surprising molecule helps detect protoplanets News - 28 June 2023

  A team of scientists, including Leiden Astronomer Alice Booth, has discovered silicon monosulfide molecules in the dust disk around a young star. Such molecules indicate planet formation. The team made the discovery using the ALMA telescopes. This method provides an alternative when direct observation…

• It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately News - 8 April 2022

  The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…

• ‘Ultimately, the goal is to develop antibiotics for tuberculosis with a lower risk of resistance’ News - 23 November 2023

  Tuberculosis stands as one of the most lethal infectious diseases worldwide. A significant challenge in combatting tuberculosis lies in the emergence of antibiotic resistance triggered by genetic alterations, commonly known as mutations. These mutations can diminish the responsiveness to antibiotics,…