Devon Graves is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Joeri started as a PhD researcher at the MultiGreen project in February 2021.

What is the environmental impact of the fish on our plates? And is an electric car really more sustainable when we include the generation of electricity? Jeroen Guinée maps the environmental impact of products and technologies. He analyses them from raw material to waste disposal. He was appointed Professor…

Ester van der Voet is employed as Professor by Leiden University at the Department Industrial Ecology of the Institute of Environmental Sciences.

Carlos Felipe obtained his PhD degree at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), where he also obtained his M.Sc. degree in Industrial Ecology. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia.

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Yanan Liang started as a PhD researcher at the department of Industrial Ecology of CML in September 2019.

The life cycle of comets near the star Beta Pictoris is similar to that of comets in our own solar system. This is the conclusion of a team of astronomers from the Netherlands, France and Brazil. It seems that, just like in our own solar system, there are fewer comets as the star gets older. The researchers,…

Mink W. van IJzendoorn is a PhD candidate and is involved in teaching at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. He studies cycles of socioeconomic innovation and decline across the Mediterranean world. Mink’s research revolves around premodern pottery, most notably transport amphorae. Thematically, he…

Sebastiaan Deetman graduated as an Industrial Ecologist from Leiden University in 2010 and has been working as a climate policy researcher at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment agency under the Responses project until end 2012.

Scientist and engineer working on the future of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), focused on making LCA understandable and accessible.

Just like the professional riders from the Jumbo-Visma team, amateur cyclists will soon be able to analyse and improve their performance. Leiden data scientists working with the cycling team are making their smart data model available so that every serious cyclist can keep track of their fitness.

Bullying, abuse or a difficult divorce: many young people struggle with mental health problems after traumatic experiences. But why do some suffer much more than others? This is the question that Hannah Dorsman is exploring within the THRIVE project.

The announcement was made shortly before the summer break: from 1 September the annual Performance & Development (P&D) interview will have a new format and also a new name. The P&D interview will be changing to GROW (Gesprekken over Resultaat, Ontwikkeling en Welzijn): Conversations on Performance,…

Why use Google Maps when you can also calculate your bike route based on your own data. Statistician and cyclist Alexander Dürre sees statistics in everything around him. He analyses data of soccer games and calculates the possible winners of cycling races. ‘When I have too much time, I apply statistics…

In May and June of 2021, Bachelor 1 and 2 students of the Faculty of Archaeology joined in the excavation at Oss. After the fieldwork itself, a second post-excavations week started in Leiden where each of them participated in small groups conducting archaeological find processing and working on creative…

Archaeologist Jason Laffoon was awarded an NWO Vidi grant for an innovative investigation into ancient migrations in the western Caribbean. The innovative character of this research project lies in the wide-scale application of isotope analysis and isotope mapping. ‘We aim at further developing methods…

Linda Breeman’s research focuses on promoting health behaviour and lifestyle changes, specializing in (eHealth) intervention development and intervention implementation in complex systems.

Tara Completed both her BSc and MSc Animal Sciences at Wageningen University and Research, each awarded with the 'cum laude' distinction. Performed her first MSc thesis on the '(Genetic) Monitoring of anthelminthic resistance in poultry parasite Ascaridia galli'. Her final MSc thesis was performed at…

René Kleijn holds an MSc in chemistry and a PhD in Industrial Ecology both from Leiden University. He is now an associate professor at Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University.

igraph, an important open source network analysis library, will receive two grants of $400,000 (approximately €340,000) over the course of the next two years.