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Kathleen Brown
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
k.j.brown@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Floris Mansvelt BeckSocial & Behavioural Sciences
f.f.mansvelt.beck@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276789
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Helena Landwehr
Social & Behavioural Sciences
h.l.landwehr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Michiel DamICLON
m.dam@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5190
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Social & Behavioural Sciences
pnieuwenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1983
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Matthew LongoSocial & Behavioural Sciences
m.b.longo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 6601
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Simon Otjes
Social & Behavioural Sciences
s.p.otjes@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273946
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Joop van Holsteijn
Social & Behavioural Sciences
holsteyn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlSocial & Behavioural Sciences
j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3903
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Tom Theuns
Social & Behavioural Sciences
t.j.h.theuns@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275069
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Sarah de Lange
Social & Behavioural Sciences
s.l.de.lange@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Social & Behavioural Sciences
s.rezaeedaryakenari@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Matthew di Giuseppe
Social & Behavioural Sciences
m.r.di.giuseppe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 6757
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Bernardo Reis dos SantosSocial & Behavioural Sciences
b.dos.santos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Josette DaemenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
j.a.m.daemen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Hilde van MeegdenburgSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Paco Barona Gomez ready to work in Leiden: ‘Fundamental research creates opportunities’
Paco Barona Gomez is the newest associate professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). The Mexican researcher is fascinated by the evolution of natural products: compounds made by microbes, but also plants and animals. ‘It’s like we investigate chemical dark matter.’
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eLaw launches call for workshop papers on fairness and AI in the labour market
Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga launch a call for workshop papers on fairness and AI in the labour market at the 16th JSAI International Symposia on AI as part of the Horizon Europe BIAS project.
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Arteriosclerosis and drug discovery: two young researchers win Krijn Rietveld Award for innovative research
One discovered that arteriosclerosis resembles an autoimmune disease, while the other developed a system to aid in the search for new medications. For these achievements, Marie Depuydt and Jurren de Groot were awarded the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award on the evening of Tuesday 4 June.
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Legal expert Reijer Passchier on the law, Big Tech and Big Brother
Is the child benefits scandal an omen for the future and will people’s lives soon be fully dominated by algorithms? Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Reijer Passchier warns that the encroaching digitalisation is giving the executive branch even more power, leaving parliament…
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Archaeology alumna Oda Nuij wins Florschütz Thesis Award
Annually, the Dutch Palynologische Kring invites nominations for the Florschütz Award for best MSc thesis in Palynology and Palaeobotany. This year, the thesis of Archaeology alumna Oda Nuij was deemed to be the best one. Oda was surprised to hear she won, since she was not sure that the thesis would…
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Flash interview with alumnus Alejandro Zendejas
International alumnus Alejandro tells us in a flash about why it is so important to physically be in Leiden for your studies, about how important his Advanced Master was to his employers and how AI and tech affects his line of work.
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Big tech hard to keep up with: ‘Time for government action’
From closed government systems in the Middle East to an exceptionally open Dutch government. Public administration lecturer Alex Ingrams is an expert on transparency: ‘Why are some countries secretive? And what role does technology play?’
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How Adolescents Can Become Resilient to Digital Misinformation
Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also have unique strengths to build resilience. In new research led by developmental psychologist Ili Ma, scientists, schools, parents and policy makers are…
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’
The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Communicative AI, about the impact of artificial intelligence and why everyone should pay more attention to developments in this field.
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Digitisation: ignoring it is no longer an option
‘Jelena Prokic, university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, will be preparing students for the challenges and opportunities of the digital world. In September, six modules will start on subjects such as statistics and digitally searching through texts.…
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Danny Mekić wins Felipe Rodriquez Award for successfully suing X
Danny Mekić was presented with the Felipe Rodriquez Award by Bits of Freedom on 13 February. The PhD student won the award for successfully suing X after the social media platform had ‘shadow banned’ him.
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A call about cameras and privacy
Technology and privacy, trust and mistrust. A discussion about this broke out when the University installed scanners and students protested. On Wednesday 2 February experts from Leiden University will explore this topic at the eponymous symposium. We called Roy de Kleijn, as a computer scientist and…
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3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’
‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3 October University lecture in the Van der Werfpark. In the full marquee, he gets a laugh with this suggestion that artificial intelligence is comparable…
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Losing count: the mathematical magic of counting curves
How can you figure out which points lie on a certain curve? And how many possible curves do you count by a given number of points? These are the kinds of questions Pim Spelier of the Mathematical Institute studied during his PhD research. Spelier received his doctorate with distinction on June 12.
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Students build software for real customers
Students gain practical experience while clients receive a solution to their software needs: the student software company LUdev hits two birds with one stone. ‘Through LUdev, students learn what else is involved in software development besides programming.’ Interested? You can now submit new projects…
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In memoriam professor Harry Wijshoff
On March 28, 2023, our esteemed colleague Prof. Harry Wijshoff passed away. He died after a struggle of several months against a serious illness.
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Municipalities too eager to digitalise, professor warns
Dutch municipalities are racing to digitalise, introducing virtual services, fraud-detection algorithms and more. The digital city may not always serve its residents. Professor Jiska Engelbert calls for civil servants who dare to push back.
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Oncode Accelerator funds preclinical development of cancer therapies
Through its Demonstrator Projects, the Dutch Oncode Accelerator consortium provides grants for preclinical cancer therapy development. The first call for these projects is open until September 2025.
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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PROACT project improves security of Internet of Things devices
Prof. Nele Mentens and her team are going to investigate how we can better secure our electronic and mobile devices connected to the Internet of Things. For this PROACT project she will receive no less than 1.8 million euros from NWO. They will use this money to develop chips that make the Internet…
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Researchers agree: the future of AI must be human
What rules should regulate AI, who should make them, and how will they be enforced in the digital arena?
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Eleven Open Competition Domain Science XS grants for Leiden researchers
Eleven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an Open Competition Domain Science ENW XS grant by the Dutch Research Council for their research projects. They are researching how to make software faster and greener, improve cancer detection and reduce anxiety by manipulating the biological…
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Transdisciplinary work is fantastic, but requires dedicated efforts from all sides to understand each other’
Eiko Fried has been appointed professor of Mental Health & Data Science. This combined chair neatly fits the view that understanding complex mental health issues require the integration of statistical methods. ‘The idea that mental health problems are monocausal entities with simple etiologies is no…
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How does the European Union tackle disinformation? ‘Much more than a security issue’
During her work for the European Union, Sophie Vériter witnessed how young people in countries like Ukraine and Moldova were exposed to Russian propaganda. After mapping out the EU’s disinformation policy, the PhD candidate now advocates for a revised approach.
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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The Power of Evidence unravelled in new research programme
Governments and public sector organisations consider evidence-based or evidence-informed policymaking as one of the pillars of good governance. That is to say: policies that are informed by scientific knowledge, expertise and evidence. In the research programme 'Power of Evidence', Valérie Pattyn and…
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Optimisation software 'Kernel Tuner' ready for serious use
LIACS assistant professor Ben van Werkhoven leads the development of software for optimising graphics processing units. By now, version 1.0 of 'Kernel Tuner' is just around the corner. This milestone shows that the software is ready for serious use.
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money
How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes it to the market. This is an enormous loss for patients and society. With a grant from the National Growth Fund, Oncode-PACT aims to efficiently select…
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ACM FOGA conference 2025
Conference
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers
Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young researchers the opportunity to develop their ideas for a period of three years.
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Michael Meffert
Social & Behavioural Sciences
m.f.meffert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Francesco Ragazzi
Social & Behavioural Sciences
f.ragazzi@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hao WangFaculty of Science
h.wang@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4799
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Ingrid van Biezen
Social & Behavioural Sciences
vanbiezen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3779