I am a PhD student in Carrion Lab and Microbial Ecology Department at NIOO-KNAW. In my project I aim to decipher endophytic microbial functions activated upon pathogen infection. I am also involved in developing bioinformatic tools and its use for the prediction of endophytic lifestyle and confirmation…

Oussama Macnack is external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Tim K Enwerem is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University. His Ph.D. research examines how the issues of identity politics precipitate the failure of states to institutionalize and operationalize human security in their domestic policy and implementation…

Alies Jansen is a PhD candidate in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at the Institute for History at Leiden University. In 2025, she is a visiting researcher in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Henrike Jansen is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

Dennis Braekmans is Associate Professor in Archaeological Materials Analysis in the Department of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Archaeology.

Jan Adriaanse is Professor of Turnaround Management at Leiden Law School. He is engaged in research projects in the interdisciplinary field of financial distress, turnaround management and insolvency law. He is an author on these subjects and a regular speaker at international conferences.

Ian Simpson is Assistant Professor in Heritage Practices in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University.

Elmer Veldkamp is an anthropologist of Korea and Japan, who focuses on the collective and individual processes by means of which people make sense of changes and developments in their everyday lives.

Vincent K.L. Chang is a university lecturer in history and international relations and a senior fellow at the Leiden Asia Centre. He focuses on historical experiences and contemporary approaches to nation building, conflict, diplomacy and law in the East Asian and Indo-Pacific contexts. His main areas…

Festival, Study trip Greek and Roman History 2026

Lecture, Global Questions Seminar

Dr. Silvia D’Amato is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), part of the research groups Terrorism and Political Violence and War, Peace and Justice. Silvia is also Secretary General of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS).

Dr Csilla Ariese is temporarily filling in for Dr Mariana Françoco as leader of the ERC Starting Grant BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).

On Wednesday 31 August 2022, the graduation ceremony of the BSc Security Studies took place. The ceremony was opened by programme director Daan Weggemans.

PhD defence

PhD defence

On August 18, 2022, Henk Bodewitz, distinguished Indologist and emeritus professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University, passed away in his hometown of Utrecht.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established principal investigators for ground-breaking, high-risk research.

Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.

Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann is a scholarship PhD candidate at the History and International Studies Section, Institute for History, Leiden University. Her research focus is on Southeast Asian state’s foreign policy behavior in the contemporary American-Chinese great power rivalry. She researches foreign…

Gitta Veldt has been a member of the Civil Law Department of the Institute for Private Law since December 2012, first as PhD-fellow and assistant professor, and currently as associate professor.

Dick Smakman is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

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).

Hanneke Palmen is Associate Professor (ius promovendi) at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.