For associate professor Jenneke van der Wal, things have been good recently. After being awarded a Vici and Una Europa grant, she has now also received an Ammodo Science Award. ‘It is a nice confirmation that I am doing valuable work.’

JUSTREMIT and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University will host a conference on 12 and 13 October on Global Regulatory Regimes and Remittances. invite paper and panel proposals for consideration for the third JUSTREMIT Conference. Academics, practitioners from the regulatory…

Elise Darras studeert aan het Leiden University College (LUC) en be besloot een maand lang stage te lopen in Frankrijk bij H2Air.

Floris Mansvelt Beck is Assistant Professor in Law and Political Philosophy at the Institute of Political Science.

Second-year MIRD students showcase their thesis research on global issues during the 2025 Thesis Symposium, bridging theory and diplomatic practice.

Since November 2024, I am a postdoc in Leiden University in the research group of Henning Basold, where I am currently working on a project to develop homotopical and coalgebraic approachs to the study of optimization algorithms. An important part of this is developing a probabilistic approach to homotopy…

Marcello Bonsangue is scientific director, coordinator for the international students and relationships and member of the Scientific Council of LIACS.

I received my bachelors' degree in Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh, where I focused primarily on pragmatics and cognitive neuroscience. I then switched tracks and completed the Master of Logic at the University of Amsterdam, where I wrote my thesis on the coalgebraic semantics of intuitionistic…

Bart Zantvoort is a Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

Diederik Meijer is a retired associate professor in Archaeology of the Near East.

Together with psychologists and immunologists from Utrecht, he proved as one of the first that stress affects the immune system. After obtaining his PhD he worked at the University of Amsterdam.

John-Harmen Valk is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

The research of Francesco Buda is focused on the application and development of state-of-the-art computational tools to simulate key processes in photosynthesis by modelling, providing a novel theoretical interpretation for the efficient photo-induced charge separation in proteins and artificial mimics…

Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.

Title research: Textualism: the final solution?

PhD defence

PhD defence

Lennart Kruijer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Anahita Arian is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science.

Jörg Meyer investigates energy conversion at interfaces at the atomic scale. Starting from the Schrödinger equation, he develops and employs computer simulation techniques.

Lukas Milevski is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Shivant Jhagroe is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration. His current research focusses on marginalised and more-than-human actors in policy and politics (e.g. racialised/low-income groups, ecosystems, algorithms).

PhD defence

Thijs Witty is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Maarten van Leeuwen is a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His expertise is in the domains of (linguistic) stylistics, argumentation theory and rhetoric.

Jelena Belic is an assistant professor of political philosophy at the Institute of Political Science and a co-director of the Center for Political Philosophy at Leiden University.

Tom Theuns is Associate Professor of Political Theory and European Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute of Political Science.

Charlotte van der Voort is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests revolve around the interface between ancient and modern rhetoric, argumentation theory and philosophy (of language).

I am a South African IR scholar whose research interest is questioning Western-centric narratives and making sense of international relations from the perspectives of the global South, particularly Africa. Before joining Leiden University in 2017, I was based at the University of Cape Town, where I…