Egbert Fortuin is Professor Russian Language and Linguistics.

Lisa Cheng is Professor of General Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests centre upon comparative syntax, and the interactions between syntax and semantics, syntax and prosody, as well as syntax and processing. She is a co-founder of the Leiden Institute…

The late 1960s: across Europe, students are demanding the right to more participation within their universities. In 1971 Leiden University was granted an elected University Council. It became quite powerful: the Council even had the right to dismiss the Chairman of the Board.

Minerva, which calls itself the oldest student association of the Netherlands, has the reputation of being an impenetrable bastion. A lustrum exhibition shows the turbulent history and points to a diversity of contacts: from close bonds with Leiden ‘coffee ladies’ to the visit of Sir Winston Churchi…

It was not until 1878 that the first female students enrolled at Leiden University, but the discussion on whether women were suited to study was by no means over. 8 March is International Women's Day. BBC correspondente Kim Ghattas will deliver a lecture on 6 March on the struggle by Arabic women for…

Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Tony Foster is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Dr. Mahmood Yenkimaleki is a guest researcher in LUCL at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Jenny Doetjes is a Professor of Semantics and Language Variation.

Suzan Verberne is professor of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University and a member of the interdisciplinary research programme Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS).

Ineke Sluiter is Distinguished Leiden Professor of Greek at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society). Her research focuses on ancient ideas on language, public debates, and the use of value discourse, and connections between classics and the modern world. She leads the Gravitation Grant…

Jonathan Stökl is assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.

Dr. Marjolein Hageman comes from Paris and has dual nationality (Dutch and French). She studied French language and literature at the Sorbonne where she did a master's thesis entitled: Voltaire, la Tolérance et les Pays-Bas. In 2010, she obtained her doctorate in French literature. Her PhD thesis is…

Paul van Els is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

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

Jörn Soerink is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Hugo Koning is a researcher in the field of Greek mythology, the archaic poet Hesiod and the reception of the classics. He combines his appointment at LUCAS with an appointment as a lecturer at the Stanislas College in Delft.

Jonathan Price has been PhD Fellow of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law since December 2011, where he teaches philosophy of law.

Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on historical multilingualism, the history of the language sector, and the intersection between language and migration. From 2022 to 2026, she conducted a Dutch Research Council Veni project titled ‘Languages…

Jürgen Zangenberg is professor for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Every year around 8 February, Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands, is celebrating its birthday. Why does the King still receive a telegram on the day of the Dies Natalis? 4 questions on the origins of Leiden University and its traditions for celebrating its foundation day.

Whether finding signals of dark matter or discovering hydrogen in the vicinity of exoplanets, Leiden astronomers are world players in their field, and they are part of a long tradition: Leiden was the first university in the world to have its own observatory.

Kiana is a PhD candidate at the Translational Data Science & AI Lab (TDS Lab). Her research focuses on developing NLP- and LLM-based data mining tools and contributing to an AI observatory platform to support federated access to health research data and to improve cross-border collaboration in cancer…

Daniël Bartelds is a researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.