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760 search results for “politics in plant” in the Staff website

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  Thijs Vos Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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

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  Faizal Rianto PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.rianto@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan Meijer Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.d.meijer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Amy Verdun Guest professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.c.verdun@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Daan van den Wollenberg PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  d.van.den.wollenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Karolina Pomorska Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  k.m.pomorska@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275180

• Switch-It-Up Wednesday: choose plant-based and sustainable in our cafés Announcement - 23 March 2026

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  Raafat Shamieh Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.shamieh@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Leila Demarest Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.demarest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nicolas Blarel Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.r.j.b.blarel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

• Frederic Lens appointed Professor of Biodiversity and Anatomy of Plants News - 2 March 2026

  The Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) has a new professor: as of 1 March, Frederic Lens has been appointed Professor of Biodiversity and Anatomy of Plants. For Lens, the appointment feels like a wonderful recognition. ‘I am pleased with Leiden University’s appreciation of my contributions to research…

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  Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8003903

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  Martijn Bezemer Professor

  Faculty of Science

  t.m.bezemer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275158

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  Morena Skalamera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.skalamera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271982

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  Babak Rezaeedaryakenari Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.rezaeedaryakenari@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.fairclough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Ellen Cieraad Guest researcher

  Faculty of Science

  e.cieraad@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Unique ‘penis plant’ flowers at Hortus News - 22 October 2021

  Amorphophallus decus-silvae, or the ‘penis plant’ as it is known, has just flowered at the Hortus botanicus. It flowered for two days, and then the pollen, which the male flowers produced was collected. As far as the plant experts at the Hortus can tell, this was just the third time that this species…

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  Cynthia van Vonno Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vonnocmcvan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wei Ping Young PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Floris Mansvelt Beck Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  fmansveltbeck@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276789

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  Cécile Pick PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.c.pick@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Indonesian 'coffee plant' named after Leiden researcher News - 19 April 2023

  Research on Asian plants is his life's work. Now a crown is added to that: a plant from the coffee family bearing his name. Paul Kessler is LUF professor of botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia and Scientific Director of the Hortus botanicus. 'Completely unexpectedly, you get to see the results…

• Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants News - 22 April 2024

  The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.m.dieterman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Silke Herms PhD candidate

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  s.b.herms@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Josette Daemen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.a.m.daemen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Petr Kopecky Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  kopecky@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273602

• Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants News - 4 April 2024

  Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…

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  Barbara Gravendeel Associate professor guest

  Faculty of Science

  b.gravendeel@hortus.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Michael Meyer PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.meyer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tim Mickler Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.a.mickler@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276199

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  Josh Robison Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.a.robison@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8005071

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  Kiki Spaninks Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  k.spaninks@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274835

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  Jonathan Phillips Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.p.phillips@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marijn Nagtzaam Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.a.m.nagtzaam@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maria Spirova Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mspirova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hannah Kuhn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  h.kuhn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Matthew Longo Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.b.longo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8006601

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  Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan Postdoc / guest

  International Institute Asian Studies

  g.van.der.zwan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Max Joosten Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.a.joosten@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Peter Castenmiller Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  p.g.castenmiller@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273879

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  Simon Otjes Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.p.otjes@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273946

• Adapt or perish – traits identified that help plants survive News - 5 September 2024

  PhD candidate Jianhong Zhou aimed to better understand whether and how plant species adapt to environmental changes. She developed two databases that she used to analyze how easily or difficultly plants adapt to changing conditions. Zhou defended her PhD thesis on 4 September.

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  Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  v.tsagkroni@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275436

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  Frank de Zwart Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  zwart@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tom Louwerse Director of Research / Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.p.louwerse@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Dirk Alkemade Training Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.g.a.alkemade@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278052

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  Dennis Bos University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.bos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272722

• Wild plants through the lens of a biologist News - 27 October 2025

  What started with an old Soviet camera and a darkroom in London grew into a lifelong passion. Developmental biologist Michael Richardson has been capturing nature - from wild coastal plants to microscopic details in the lab - since his childhood.