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• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 24 November 2025

• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 25 November 2025

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  Berber de Jong Postdoctoral researcher

  ICLON

  b.de.jong@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4015

• How chemist Marc Tijhuis left business to change the world News - 15 September 2022

  Halfway through his career alumnus Marc Tijhuis made a radical change: he left the corporate world to join the global battle against waste with the International Solid Waste Association.

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  Kevin Groen Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  k.groen@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6822

• Professor by special appointment Jeroen van Zon joins the Institute of Biology News - 3 September 2025

  As of 1 September, Jeroen van Zon started as professor by special appointment in Quantitative Developmental Biology at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). Van Zon is also group leader of Quantitative Developmental Biology at the physics research institute AMOLF. Three questions about his new role…

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  Kunal Chaudhary PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  k.chaudhary@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Chemist Marc Koper receives Spinoza Prize for research on electrolysis News - 3 September 2021

  Professor Marc Koper researches how you can use electrical energy to make or break chemical bonds. He has just been awarded a Spinoza Prize, the Netherlands’ highest personal science award, for his fundamental research into how this form of electrolysis works.

• Leiden biology student finalist UN youth delegate News - 22 October 2021

  Roel Wouters (24), a biology student at Leiden University, is a finalist in the election for UN youth delegate for Biodiversity and Food. The digital polls open for a week on Friday 22 October. Under-30s can vote for Roel at www.stemroel.nl.

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  Chengyi Liu PhD candidate external

  Faculty of Science

  c.liu@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Louie Krol PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Science

  l.krol@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Christine Mummery Professor Developmental Biology

  Faculteit Geneeskunde

  c.l.mummery@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 9300

• Leiden chemists discover new ways in which single-celled organisms organise their DNA News - 23 September 2024

  It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that structure DNA. Now, Leiden PhD candidate Samuel Schwab has found that the histones in these organisms are much more diverse than previously thought. Schwab and his colleagues describe…

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  Edi Gittenberger Professor emeritus of Systematic zoology

  Faculty of Science

  e.gittenberger.1@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 568 4881

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  August Martin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.w.martin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272031

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  Bregje Brinkmann Guest postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  b.w.brinkmann@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maarten Lubbers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  m.lubbers@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Women’s Day for Biology students News - 9 March 2022

  ‘It was not always accepted, but I just wanted to be a researcher. Now, I am as happy as can be.’ It is one of the quotes from the International Women’s Day presentation for Biology students. Seven women, working as researchers and teachers at the CML, IBL, and Naturalis, shared their experiences with…

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  Pieter Baas Professor emeritus Botany

  Faculty of Science

  baas@nhn.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Down-to-earth biology student wins Young Talent Award News - 8 December 2021

  Gijs van der Velden has one of the best study results in his first college year of all science studies. With that, he won the Young Talent Incentive award and received 500 euros of the Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW). The biology student remains quite nonchalantly. ‘Of course,…

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  Caitlin Black Lecturer

  Faculty of Science

  c.e.black@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Sam Boerlijst PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Science

  s.p.boerlijst@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kees Musters Researcher / guest

  Faculty of Science

  musters@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277461

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  Vincent Merckx Postdoc guest

  Faculty of Science

  merckx@nhn.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3570

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  Lina Bayona Maldonado Education and research technician

  Faculty of Science

  l.m.bayona.maldonado@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4791

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  Anagnostis Theodoropoulos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  a.theodoropoulos@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4882

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  Niels Raes Postdoc / guest

  Faculty of Science

  niels.raes@naturalis.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Geert de Snoo Professor Conservation Biology

  Faculty of Science

  g.r.de.snoo@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Hans de Iongh Associate professor / guest

  Faculty of Science

  h.h.de.iongh@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7461

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  Peter van Welzen Professor emeritus Biology

  Faculty of Science

  peter.vanwelzen@naturalis.nl | 071 5272727

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  Fien Demuynck PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  j.m.demuynck@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275045

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  Daniel Zumel Gete PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  d.zumel.gete@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• What makes a caring parent? The biology of parenting News - 25 March 2025

  What happens in our bodies when we care for children? And why are some people more caring than others?

• Biology students expose exotic amphibians in the dunes News - 1 December 2022

  During the spring of 2021, a group of eight biology students from Leiden set out into the dunes in search of amphibians. Using DNA, they determined the geographic origin of the animals. And guess what? In many cases they discovered exotic populations of animals that do not naturally belong in The Netherlands.…

• Sugar chemistry – Wouter Remmerswaal’s unrelenting pursuit of understanding News - 25 November 2024

  The dark matter of biology: clumps of sugar molecules that, for example, form sugary webs around pathogens. We know very little about them. Wouter Remmerswaal threw all his talent into the challenge – both in the lab and as a modeller – and succeeded. He received his PhD on 12th September.

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  Marjolein Crooijmans PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  m.e.crooijmans@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5075

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  Emily Strange Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  e.f.strange@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Madeline Kavanagh Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  m.e.kavanagh@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Two new Directors of Education at the Institute of Biology Leiden News - 28 September 2022

  From 1 October, two new Directors of Education will start at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). Dennis Claessen as the new director for the master's programme of Biology and Marcel Schaaf as director for the Biology bachelor's programme. Claessen and Schaaf have been appointed for a period of four…

• Biology student Martijn Verkuilen wins Unilever Research Prize News - 29 November 2022

  Martijn Verkuilen is the winner of the Unilever Research Prize 2022. By transferring DNA from a plant into yeast, he made the first move to produce a new drug for type 2 diabetes. He collected his prize in Wageningen on 24 November.

• video on Leiden student city feature Archaeology student Azra and Biology student Floris News - 11 October 2024

  In Leiden University's video series on Leiden and The Hague as student cities, students interview each other at their favorite spots. In the fifth video of this series, archaeology student Azra spoke with Biology student Floris in Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

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  Han de Winde Professor Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology

  Faculty of Science

  j.h.de.winde@science.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1036

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  Han van Konijnenburg Professor emeritus Prequatarnary paleobotany

  Faculty of Science

  j.h.a.van.konijnenburg-van.cittert@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Niels van der Windt PhD candidate / Self Funded

  Faculty of Science

  n.van.der.windt@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jitske van Welsen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  j.van.welsen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Karline Janmaat Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  k.r.l.janmaat@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michael Richardson Professor of Evolutionary developmental zoology

  Faculty of Science

  m.k.richardson@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5215

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  Sandra Irmisch Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  s.irmisch@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Meindert Lamers Co-director NeCEN & Associate professor (LUMC)

  Faculty of Science

  m.h.lamers@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anthe Janssen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  a.p.a.janssen@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727