Thijs Bosker is an Associate Professor in Environmental Science. He uses laboratory and field techniques to study the impacts of contaminants on ecosystem health, with a focus on stress-on-stress scenarios. His research has taken him to Canada, the US, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, where he quantifies…

Esther Kentin is lecturer at the Department Moot Court and Advocacy of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2004. She also runs the Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic.

This February, Leiden University honors two scholars who have responded to the challenges of modern society in important, innovative and exemplary ways. Catherine Malabou and Safiya Umoja Noble will receive honorary doctorates for their ground breaking research in philosophy and internet/media studies…

Are you curious about how the human skeleton works? Discover this and more on 3 October in Leiden and on 4 October in The Hague.

How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.