Prof. dr. De Iongh is associate professor in the department Conservation Biology CML and guest professor in Habitat Conservation at the Faculty of Sciences of Antwerpen University, Belgium.

Susan’s research focusses on the development of a unified mineral resources certification to ensure sustainable mining and supply chains.

How to take ownership of your career? To find out, students from ‘Design Your Career as a Climate Change Maker’ visited a farmer who has done just that. They learned from him that it’s never too late to start working on something you believe in.

The University aims to be bilingual, and provides its information in Dutch and English wherever possible. This has consequences for the information provided on the University websites.

Prof. Dr. Horst Fischer has been Professor of International Humanitarian Law at Leiden Law School since 1997.

Tanja Hendriks is an assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and a research affiliate with the African Studies Centre Leiden. With a background in cultural anthropology, development studies and African Studies, her ethnographic research focuses on state bureaucracies and…

Sjoerd Lopik is a research fellow at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology. He has been affiliated with Leiden University since 2020, where he obtained his PhD in 2025 with a dissertation on the role of criminal law within the legal response to climate change. His research primarily focuses on…

Hauke Ward is an assistant professor of industrial ecology. His current research predominantly focusses on distributional impacts of more ambitious climate policies, responsibility accounting for emissions embodied in trade and the role of industrial technology for current and future emissions.

Min J Cho blends her expertise in global health and international development with contributions to knowledge and skills in academia. Her previous research projects include analyzing health risks in urbanizing regions of Central Asia (Uzbekistan) and examining health research systems through historical…

Well-being economist Rutger Hoekstra has been named as one of the 26 National Champions of the international Frontiers Planet Prize.

In her research and teaching, Tessa Minter focuses on environmental anthropology, with a specific interest in livelihood strategies of forest-dependent and coastal peoples in the Asia-Pacific region, and their adaptation to social and environmental change.

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How can we make our cities greener and more people-friendly? Two Campus The Hague projects have secured a grant from the Municipality of The Hague. The researchers and students from both projects are working with city residents to find sustainable solutions to local issues.

Prof. Dr. Nico Schrijver is emeritus Professor of Public International Law at Leiden Law School.

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

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Who knows more about environmental governance: a professor of natural resource governance or a local shaman in the remote uplands of Myanmar?

Its idyllic setting and white sandy beaches have made the Maldives a hotspot for tourists. This provides an income but is a problem for the fragile natural environment. Students from various universities worked with the local people to make the soil more fertile. How did they go about it?

We hebben 6 van de 9 grenzen overschreden die bepalen of menselijk leven in de komende generaties nog mogelijk is op aarde. Kunnen we het tij nog keren?

Stefano Cucurachi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology.

Thomas Bäck (Fellow, IEEE) received the Diploma degree in Computer Science in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1994, both from the University of Dortmund, Germany. He is Professor of Computer Science with the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands.…

The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.

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