Eight Leiden University research teams recently received €15,000 each to take their research to the next level through Una Europa. Dario Fazzi, one of the selected researchers and professor of Transatlantic Environmental History, shares how Una Europa helps him expand a Leiden-based project into a international…

Fancy seeing how your job is done at a university abroad? Project Managers Christina Schlüpen and Jeannette de Wolf from the Leiden Institute of Chemistry did just that. They both spent a week shadowing a European colleague: one in Bologna and the other in Berlin. This was through the Una Europe alliance,…

On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Professor Saskia Jaszoltowski, the new Visiting Professor for Central European Studies at Leiden University joined students, colleagues and friends of Austrian Studies at Leiden for a lunch-time talk that introduced her exciting research to our community.

Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.

On December 3, 2024, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey delivered a Cleveringa Lecture in Vienna. Cramsey was the special guest of the Dutch Ambassador to Austria, Mr. Peter Potman.

Marlisa den Hartog is university lecturer at the Institute for History

Yusra Abdullahi is a PhD Candidate researching the roles Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, and Rwenzururian activists played at the United Nations.

Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe is a guest researcher at the Institute for History.

Dennie Oude Nijhuis is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

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On Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, Mr. Seán Ivory (VU) presented part of his prize-winning research in a lunch talk entitled Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: The Politics of Emotion in the Pamphlets of the De Hondt Affair During the Small Brabant Revolution (1787).

Anthony Brown has a Master of Science degree in Astronomy from the University of Leiden and obtained his PhD there as well. He held positions as PostDoc at the Leiden Observatory, Instituto de Astronomía in Ensenada and at the European Southern Observatory. Currently he is working at the Leiden Observatory…

Caspar van den Berg is Guest Professor at the Institute of Public Administration. For further information, including his research fields and activities, please see www.casparvandenberg.com.

Tijmen Pronk is Assistant Professor and Director of Education at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Lasse van den Dikkenberg is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Until September 2024 Marie-Leen Ryckaert was Senior Lecturer Design History & Theory and Research Fellow at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Department of Interior Architecture) for fifteen years. She is currently conducting research on Film and Architecture (Faculty of Humanities).

Carolina Lenarduzzi is a visiting staff member at the Institute for History.

Lukas Milevski is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Dennis Worst is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Maha Ali is a doctoral researcher exploring the role of Asian states at the United Nations, within the European Research Council (ERC) funded project -

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Wouter Wagemakers is a specialist in Italian renaissance art and architecture, and lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. At Leiden University, he teaches a survey course on European renaissance art and architecture, 1300-1550; and co-teaches seminars about Rome, the Global Renaissance, and…

On Sunday, November 9 2025, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey presented a film at the “Eastern Neighbors” Film Festival in The Hague.

Joost Augusteijn is Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History and Programme Chair of the BA International Studies and the Joint MA European Politics and Society.

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad.

André Gerrits is Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Global Politics.

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