Vanessa Mak has been Professor of Civil Law at the Institute of Private law since 1 October 2020.

How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.

Governments are increasingly cracking down on tech companies like X, Telegram and Clearview that flout the law, with a fine, ban or criminal prosecution. In practice, however, this has little effect. A tougher stance is needed, argues Bart Custers, Professor of Law and Data Science at eLaw – Center…

Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…

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Ann Brysbaert is Professor in Ancient technology, crafts and materials at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Matthijs Westera is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enables talented early-career scholars to start their own pioneer project, lead a research team, and implement their best ideas at the frontiers of their…

Did you know that research and education in the field of digital innovation are key pillars of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs? Over the next seven days, we are organising Cyberweek on our social media channels to showcase what we have to offer.

The ERC consolidator project "Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale" will organise a winter school on visual and collaborative methods in anthropological research at Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development…

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René Olsthoorn studies the role of RNA structures in viral infections and genetic disorders.

Dmitri Filippov was born on November 21, 1966 in Moscow and studied chemistry at Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology. After the graduation he learned the ABCs of synthetic bioorganic chemistry under the supervision of Dr. B.I. Mitsner. In 1992 he moved to Leiden and after a short period was…

Chinese State-backed entities have taken tiny stakes in parts of two Alibaba subsidiaries that oversee a video platform and web browser. Professor Rogier Creemers argues on CNBC this move is part of a larger plan for tech regulation.

Corine Gerritsen is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH).

Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) has had a new director since 1 February. Associate Professor Angus Mol wants to connect people and knowledge in his new role.

Gert Renkema, Head of Financial Economic Affairs/Business Controller of FGGA, tells us how the faculty is doing

Ruth Alison Clemens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her current research project is titled 'Posthuman Music Machines: Literature in the Age of the Pianola' and is part of the NWO Startersbeurs project 'Tracing Players Playing Traces: Non/Human Music…

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Augusto Clemente is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS | Leiden University) and a professor at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR, Brazil). His research focuses on the internationalization of higher education in Latin America.

Francielle Franco is a PhD from UNESP (Brazil). At CWTS, she will work in the Focal Area Engagement & Inclusion. Her research focuses on altmetrics, facilitating the visualization of altmetric impact indicators.

Uta Wehn is a professor by special appointment of the chair ‘ Citizen Science and Sustainability’.

Ting Cong is a full professor at the College of Publishing, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. His research interest includes academic publishing, open science and social media…

PhD candidate and member of the Science and Evaluation Studies (SES) research group. She studies new tools used in research evaluation, particularly those which aim to capture wider notions of research quality, excellence and impact.

Marie Curie Research Fellow. His research focuses on how the production of visual data on public and private oceanographic vessels and their impact on ocean sciences research practices.

External PhD candidate. Alexander Schniedermann works on standardization in biomedical research.

Narmin Rzayeva is an external PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. She is also a trainer in Research Data Management and Digital Skills at Delft University of Technology.

Louise Bezuidenhout is a social science researcher who specializes on issues relating to Open Science, data sharing and access. Her research is broadly oriented around themes such as justice and access, inclusion and marginalization and equity.