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639 search results for “development biology” in the Staff website

• 
  Isaac Scarborough Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.m.scarborough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272655

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  Sanne van Luenen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.van.luenen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Geert-Jan Will Affiliate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  g.j.will@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alireza Mashaghi Tabari Associate professor

  a.mashaghi.tabari@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274425

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  Joost Broekens Associate professor

  d.j.broekens@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277139

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  Marco Spruit Professor

  m.r.spruit@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Kim de Jong accosiate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  kjong@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277995

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  Roeland Emaus PhD candidate

  r.emaus@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marieke Tollenaar Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.s.tollenaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273454

• 
  Somayah Elsayed Assistant professor

  s.elsayed@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271886

• The Power of Empathy in International Development Work: Beyond Policies and Numbers Event - 19 March 2025

  Lecture

• Mini organs-on-chips: an alternative to drug testing on animals News - 30 October 2025

  Mini organs-on-chips allow us to study how diseases develop and how drugs work. Although the technology is not new, it is becoming increasingly advanced. PhD candidate Bart Kramer hopes it will eliminate animal testing in the future.

• XR ERA Meetup: 'Developing Practical Virtual Field Trips for Engineering Students on Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing' Event - 12 March 2026

• ceremony master and master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Event - 6 October 2025

  Festival, Graduation Ceremony

• ceremony bachelor and master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Event - 3 March 2025

  Festival, Graduation Ceremony

• Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages Event - 16 September 2025

  Lecture

• Webinar: Ethical Review of Student Research – Best-practices and future development Event - 11 March 2025

  Webinar

• European Proof of Concept grants for two Leiden researchers News - 14 July 2025

  Two Leiden researchers have been awarded ERC Proof of Concept grants. These grants, each worth EUR 150,000, will help the grantees in their efforts to bridge the gap from basic science to real-life applications

• How do teachers learn in a work placement programme? News - 13 February 2023

  Na Zhou (PhD at ICLON) researched how vocational teachers’ learning takes place in a work placement programme and how their learning supports their teaching in school. Defence on 1 March.

• A future with tailored therapy for patients with atherosclerosis News - 11 September 2025

  The AtheroNeth consortium received €6 million from the Dutch Heart Foundation to gain a better understanding of the differences in disease progression among patients with atherosclerosis. The ultimate goal is to enable personalised treatment.

• Changin’: Multiple, Diverging, and Conjoining Temporalities in Sport for Development and Peace Event - 9 March 2026

  CADS Research Seminar

• Diplomatic Developments between Royal Houses in Java and the Dutch Royal Family in the 19th Century Event - 14 May 2025

  Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar

• unexplored functions of Toll-like receptor signaling: Immunometabolism, development and microbiome interactions Event - 17 March 2026

  PhD defence

• Back to the scanner: brain science in times of corona News - 16 May 2021

  For their research many neuropsychologists use the brain scanners at the LUMC. At the start of the pandemic, the rules for visiting the hospital became stricter and a large amount of psychology research looked as though it would fall through. Thanks to good protocols the researchers can now pick up…

• Self While Adapting: Chinese Foreign Language Teachers’ Identity Development in an Intercultural Context Event - 3 September 2025

  PhD defence

• Employing and Developing Operando Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Event - 16 January 2026

  PhD defence

• Stress-induced protein dynamics and growth arrest in C. elegans during development Event - 16 May 2025

  PhD defence

• The potential of multi-scale EE-MRIO to support sustainable development policies in Indonesia Event - 29 January 2025

  PhD defence

• Record number of registrations for PhD course microscopy News - 6 December 2021

  ‘Microscopy is by far the least understood, most inefficiently operated, and the most abused of all laboratory instruments,’ reads the quote on the office wall of microscopy unit supporters Joost Willemse en Gerda Lamers. It describes exactly why the two developed the microscopy course for starting…

• OSCoffee: A bird's eye view of Open Science Developments, Challenges and Future Directions at Naturalis Biodiversity Center Event - 7 May 2025

  Lecture

• Researchers debunk earlier study: babies may not be able to learn language rules after all News - 24 March 2022

  For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent research carried out by a consortium of four Dutch baby labs led by researchers from Leiden cast doubts on this certainty. We spoke to researchers Andreea…

• When you know how your brain works, you better understand who you are News - 4 October 2022

  On Sept. 29, Lara Wierenga, together with graphic designer Dirma Janse, presented their new book Atlas of our Brain. In the presence of fellow scientists and other interested parties, they shared some of the stunning illustrations and mind-boggling facts that can be found in the book.

• Leiden biologists get awarded 730k NWO grant News - 27 October 2021

  Salma Balazadeh, Víctor Carrión, and Jos Raaijmakers, biologists at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), have successfully applied for an NWO grant and got awarded 730.000 euros. The board of NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences awarded funding for their project within the Open Technology Programme…

• A New Age of Infrastructure Development? An Historical Comparison of Nested Dependency in Pakistan and Egypt Event - 2 December 2025

  Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar

• Taarique teaches career planning but doesn’t want students to plan their future too strictly: ‘Keep on experimenting’ News - 27 May 2024

  In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Taarique Debidin thinks making contact with one another is more important than cramming knowledge. ‘I’d get no energy at all from being a formal lecturer.’

• A unique defence: Bacteria lose cell wall in the presence of virus News - 8 June 2022

  Bacteria temporarily live without their cell wall if dangerous viruses are near. A remarkable feature, as the cell wall is a sturdy barrier against threats. Still, the discovery has a logical explanation ánd might be of a consequence for fighting pathogenic bacteria, according to Véronique Ongenae,…

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  Annemarie Samuels Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.samuels@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271724

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  Hans Slabbekoorn Professor

  h.w.slabbekoorn@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275049

• Evolutionary change in protective plant odours News - 23 June 2021

  Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.

• PADev as a method for effective participatory assessment of the development of higher education institutions Event - 11 December 2025

  PhD defence

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to an AI model (and rightly so) News - 24 October 2024

  Not experiments and lab coats, but computers and artificial intelligence: this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the groundbreaking AI model, AlphaFold. This programme accurately predicts protein structures based on their genetic code—a crucial step in understanding biological…

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  Mitch van Geel Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mgeel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276711

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  Vivian Kraaij Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  kraaij@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273736

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  Nadira Saab Professor

  ICLON

  n.saab@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275726

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Nadia Garnefski Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  garnefski@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273774

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  Annelieke Hagen Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.hagen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eric Storm Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272721

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  Veronique de Gucht Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  degucht@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273863

• Are tropical forests threatened by democracy? News - 6 February 2023

  Democracy may lead to more deforestation in the tropics. So write environmental scientist Joeri Morpurgo and his colleagues in the prominent scientific journal Biological conservation. They found that competitive elections are associated with more loss of tropical rainforest than elections without competition.…