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933 search results for “africa in the world” in the Staff website

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  Ionica Smeets Professor

  i.smeets@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271119

• Webb detects icy ingredients for making potential habitable worlds News - 13 March 2024

  An international team of astronomers, led by Will Rocha of Leiden Observatory, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that the key ingredients for making potentially habitable worlds are present in early-stage protostars, where planets have not yet formed.

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  Corinne Hofman Professor of Caribbean Archaeology

  c.l.hofman@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272449

• ‘It’s a great motivator if your research can be life-changing in the real world’ News - 21 January 2025

  Our university labs are bursting with cutting-edge research, but how do you commercialise these inventions and discoveries or translate them into outcomes that benefit society? Professor of biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin started a spin-off company with his team. ‘When it comes to valorisation…

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  Alberto Sarcina Guest researcher

  a.sarcina@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  William Michael Schmidli Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272341

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  Femke Fakkeldij PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.k.fakkeldij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.mamadjibeye@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Jorge Blake PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Corrie Bakels Emeritus professor

  c.c.bakels@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272393

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  Frans Theuws Professor

  f.theuws@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0715272033

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  Bionda Kijk in de Vegte Management assistant

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  b.kijk.in.de.vegte@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275373

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  Ralph Kijk in de Vegte Staff member Servicedesk HR

  ASSC

  r.kijk.in.de.vegte@assc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jos Schaeken Interim Vice-dean / Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and cultural history

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.schaeken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277772

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  Susanna de Beer Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671

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  Karolina Pomorska Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  k.m.pomorska@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275180

• ESOF2022 Online mini-symposium: The effect of the online world on adolescents News - 6 July 2022

  How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with increasing rates of online crimes among adolescents? During the mini-symposium ‘The effect of the online world on adolescents’, presented by the interdisciplinary…

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  Ann Brysbaert Guest researcher

  a.n.brysbaert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• From sovereignty at sea to self-determination: the geopolitics of Greenland News - 22 January 2026

  Who holds rights to Greenland’s surrounding waters and natural resources? Which interests are at stake and for whose benefit? We put these questions to Hilde Woker, who specialises in the law of the sea in the Arctic.

• World Heritage Status for Letters from Indonesian Women's Rights Advocate Kartini News - 11 April 2025

  UNESCO has recognized a large collection of handwritten letters and the archive of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904) as documentary world heritage. Kartini opposed gender inequality in feudal Javanese society, including forced marriages, polygamy and lack of education for women.

• 'With Urban Studies in Practice, we bring the outside world inside' News - 1 April 2021

  Working for a social client during your studies: this is what happens at Urban Studies. For the course Urban Studies in Practice, third-year students carry out projects for public clients, such as the municipality of The Hague.

• A world first at the microscopic scale: metamaterials that can shrink and expand on their own News - 25 February 2026

  Soft structures that can take on different shapes without any external drive. Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio created them in their lab. They present their groundbreaking research on microscale metamaterials in Nature - a breakthrough that opens the door to smart, reconfigurable materials…

• Luris turns 20: ‘Our research drives real-world impact and innovations’ News - 9 December 2025

  It’s been exactly 20 years since Luris first began working with Leiden’s researchers and students to create an impact on society. To celebrate this anniversary, staff look back on their most memorable projects. Spoiler: they all had difficulty choosing one single project.

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  Johan Christensen Associate professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  j.christensen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Giles Scott-Smith Dean LUC/Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  g.p.scott-smith@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009503

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  Mirjam van Reisen Professor

  m.e.h.van_reisen@lumc.nl | 071 5265062

• New professor Vedran Dunjko finds real-world problems that a quantum computer can solve News - 2 November 2023

  Vedran Dunjko appointed to full professor of quantum computing at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

• ‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models News - 24 January 2025

  What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’

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  Marie Kolbenstetter PhD candidate

  m.m.kolbenstetter@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Cushla Donaldson PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.j.donaldson@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Maikel Kuijpers Assistant Professor

  m.h.g.kuijpers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272386

• Turning the tide: global biodiversity research gets time and funding News - 24 January 2025

  How do you compare the living environment of Dutch dairy cows with that of Masai cattle in East Africa? And how can we reverse biodiversity loss? These questions are central to CurveBend, an international research consortium in which ecologist Michiel Veldhuis plays a key role.

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  Eric Olijdam Guest Staff Member

  e.olijdam@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jac Aarts Researcher/Guest

  j.m.m.j.g.aarts@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ilone de Vries-Lemaire Asministrator FEZ / HR advisor

  a.t.j.m.de.vries@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alexander Mohns PhD candidate

  a.d.l.mohns@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gabi Perhaj Open Access and Project Manager / Policy Officer Graduate School & Open Access

  g.perhaj@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276451

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  Arent Pol PhD candidate

  a.pol@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants News - 4 April 2024

  Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…

• Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives News - 20 September 2022

  In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…

• Researchers and members of the public bring a sustainable world a little closer News - 1 October 2024

  Researchers, civil servants and local residents met on 27 September to talk about partnering for sustainability. What were the results? In a green ‘city oasis’ in the centre of The Hague they spoke about the energy transition, bottom-up initiatives and citizen science.

• Academia in Motion Festival: ‘We’re in a changing world of academia’ News - 7 November 2023

  How can we continue to work on an open university culture where everyone’s contribution is recognised and rewarded? Over 120 university staff spoke about breaking academic barriers at the first Academia in Motion Festival in PLNT.

• Leiden: ‘helping young researchers focus in a fast moving academic world’ News - 23 September 2025

  Young Academy Leiden (YAL) will change its board this month and welcome six new members. Outgoing chair Rachel Plak and incoming chair Ahmed Mahfouz talk about what the platform has achieved for young academics over the past year and what the plans are for the future.

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  Jelle Kaastra Professor emeritus

  kaastra@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ellora Basu Research analyst

  e.basu@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274835

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  Frans van Lunteren Lecturer

  vlunteren@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Vincent Icke Professor emeritus

  icke@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275843

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  Jacqueline Hodge Associate Professor

  hodge@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278450

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  Rychard Bouwens Associate professor

  bouwens@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278456