igraph, an important open source network analysis library, will receive two grants of $400,000 (approximately €340,000) over the course of the next two years.

Amie obtained her BSc Honours in Geography at the University of Regina (Regina, SK) in 2011, doing her project on using remote sensing as a monitoring tool for remote glacial lake sediment quantification and study.

Glenn is a researcher from Costa Rica that has developed his career in the sustainability field. He holds a bachelor degree in Chemistry from the University of Costa Rica and a master of Sustainability from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Irene Vikatou is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

From 1 August, Hermen Jan Hupkes has been appointed Professor of Non-Linear Analysis at the Mathematical Institute. 'Initially I don't think that much will change,' Hupkes says. 'My research and supervising future researchers will continue as before.'

BPS MSc student Guus Ruiter: This year I followed this new course called Design, Analysis, and Practical Use of Biologicals at the LUMC given by Rawi Ramautar and developed for both BPS MSc and Pharmacy students. During this course, there were many different speakers, in particular from biotech companies…

Stefano Cucurachi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology.

Dr Michael Kerschner is Senior Guest Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology. Parallel to this position he is a research associate at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and responsible for the research focus “Cult and Sanctuary” there. His main field…

Erik Kroon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Patrick Degryse is a guest staff member at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, as well as full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Annemieke Verbaas is an education and research staff member at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Mark Roelofsen is a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title thesis: 'Is het mogelijk een consistent Technisch Analysesysteem te ontwerpen, toepasbaar op aandelenmarkten, dat aantoonbaar succesvol is?'

Koen Caminada (1966) is Professor of Empirical Analysis of Tax and Social Policy at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is Dean at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs.

Jurriaan Witteman is a Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. He is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the neural basis of speech perception. He uses neuro-imaging and meta-science methods (meta-analysis, replication) to study these topics and adopts an Open Science approach.

Arnold Tukker is Professor of Industrial Ecology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University.

Anoma van der Veere is a researcher within the Leiden Asia Centre at Leiden University. He is based at the University of Osaka in Japan and writes about international collaboration and public policy in the fields of technology, education and sport. His research focuses on sport and education through…

Plants are extraordinary biochemists and produce a plethora of valuable specialized metabolites (i.e. natural products), including some of our most important medicines. In my lab we want to understand specialized metabolite biosynthesis on a molecular level to improve cultivated plant systems and advance…

Stefano started as a researcher at the Industrial Ecology department of CML in August 2019.

Robert is an environmental engineer whose research lies at the intersection of sustainable resource management and decarbonization, assessing the environmental and economic benefits and trade-offs of natural resource use and waste valorization in industrial decarbonization. His work is grounded in the…

Yali Si is an ecologist who tries to 1) understand spatiotemporal ecological patterns and processes, 2) quantify the environmental mechanisms and global change impact on bird distribution, movement and diversity, ecosystem functioning, and disease patterns, and 3) develop sustainable measures to safeguard…

Shashank is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and is working on the development and operationalization of a Safe and Sustainable-by-Design framework for additive manufacturing-enabled repair and remanufacturing within the NWA ADD-reAM project.

Rutger Hoekstra is an associate professor at CML who is an expert on environmental input-output modelling and beyond-growth debates. He leads the WISE Horizons project which works on metrics and models for sustainable and inclusive wellbeing (brede welvaart in Dutch). In 2019, he published his latest…

Rita Pucci is assistant professor at LIACS.

Wimar Bolhuis, lecturer in economics, has become a member of the Central Planning Committee (CPC), the independent supervisory committee which audits the work of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB).

Whether a microbe is beneficial or harmful to a plant can now be predicted with high accuracy thanks to bacLIFE. This bioinformatic tool with an intuitive interface makes it much easier to unlock the secrets of bacterial genomes. A group of Leiden biologists presented it in Nature Communications.

Marco Cinelli from Leiden University College (LUC) and the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) was awarded the 2024 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper at the European Conference on Operational Research in Copenhagen.