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• ‘A good teacher always has multiple ways to explain the same concept’ News - 29 November 2024

  Assistant professor Joost Willemse firmly believes that as a teacher, you’re never done learning. ‘Students ask questions about things you’ve never thought of yourself. Ultimately, that makes you better at your job.’ That’s why he always encourages his students to ask questions. And it’s appreciated:…

• Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast News - 26 September 2024

  Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…

• Mathematical Instruments and their Use: Circulation of Knowledge and Imperial Appropriation in Early and Mid-Qing China Event - 4 March 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

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  Ekaterina Kosarevskaia PhD candidate

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  Dean Wardell PhD candidate

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  Tristan Wiegers PhD candidate

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  Sanskar Agrawal PhD candidate

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  Jialing Yu PhD candidate / contract

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  Paolo Bordignon PhD candidate

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  Niels Kolenbrander PhD candidate

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  Jorre The PhD candidate

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  Abed Razawy PhD candidate

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  Camiel Koopmans PhD candidate

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  James Harpur PhD candidate / self funded

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  Stef Nomden PhD candidate

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• Leiden University honours Lex van der Eb with University Medal News - 13 December 2024

  Leiden University has awarded its prestigious University Medal to Emeritus Professor Lex van der Eb. As a pioneer in genetics and molecular biology, he received this honour for his services to science and his key role in the development of the Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP).

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  Ariane Briegel Senior researcher/guest

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  Eveline de Boer Knowledge valorization staff member

  ICLON

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• ‘To truly understand the brain, we must understand the chemistry’ News - 27 November 2025

  How do fats and enzymes in the brain contribute to multiple sclerosis? In his PhD research, Daan van der Vliet combined chemistry and neuroscience to gain new insights into how brain disorders develop.

• Simulation of infant gut makes predictions about optimal milk News - 25 April 2024

  David Versluis successfully simulated an infant gut virtually. This is crucial for research on improvements in formula milk. Currently, such research primarily relies on diaper contents, which is not optimal. Versluis defended his doctoral thesis on April 23.

• Noise at sea: research on how wind farms affect fish News - 9 March 2026

  PhD candidate Fien Demuynck researched how wind farms affect fish and how to minimise any negative impact.

• Research project into environmental tipping points receives €10 million News - 25 October 2022

  Arjen Doelman (Leiden University), Max Rietkerk (Utrecht University), Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Isla Myers-Smith (University of Edinburgh) received an ERC Synergy grant of 10 million euros with their RESILIENCE project. The researchers will investigate whether and how tipping…

• Unique ‘penis plant’ flowers at Hortus News - 22 October 2021

  Amorphophallus decus-silvae, or the ‘penis plant’ as it is known, has just flowered at the Hortus botanicus. It flowered for two days, and then the pollen, which the male flowers produced was collected. As far as the plant experts at the Hortus can tell, this was just the third time that this species…

• 300 million euros for new international stem cell consortium News - 17 December 2021

  The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Danstem Institute from the University of Copenhagen and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne have received 300m euros from the Novo Nordisk foundation. The aim of this new international consortium is to bring stem-cell based therapies…

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  Tommaso Lamma PhD candidate

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  Rens Blaauwendraad PhD candidate

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  Jolien Kamphuis PhD candidate

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  Alexander Molyakov PhD candidate

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  Sven van Dijk PhD candidate

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  Mark van den Bosch PhD candidate

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  Emma Cappenberg PhD candidate

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  Amira Tlemsani PhD candidate

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  Dock Staal PhD candidate

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  Victor de Vries PhD candidate

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  Zhelun Chen PhD candidate / contract

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  Daniël Rutgers PhD candidate

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  Yilin Jiang Self Funded PhD Candidate / Guest

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  Antigona Pajaziti Self Funded PhD Candidate / Guest

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  Xiao Yang PhD candidate

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• Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University News - 30 June 2022

  An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them to develop their own line of research over the next five years.

• A chemical biology approach to explore lipid metabolism in neurological disorders Event - 24 June 2025

  PhD defence

• Students work on bacterium that makes sustainable plastic News - 7 September 2023

  A group of biology students are working on a solution to the world’s plastics problem by getting bacteria to make biodegradable plastic.

• What DNA in droppings can reveal about an animal’s diet News - 24 October 2024

  Imagine scanning lion dung or a mouse dropping and instantly knowing exactly what and how much the animal has eaten. Thanks to new DNA techniques, this is becoming increasingly feasible. PhD student Kevin Groen tested how effective these techniques are at unraveling the diets of wild animals.

• Introduction to Network Theory Using Gephi Event - 9 June 2026

  Workshop

• Tropical Tensor Networks and Bell Inequalities: From Multipartite Nonlocality to Quantum Device Certification Event - 5 June 2026

  PhD defence

• Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers News - 25 March 2024

  The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on important electrochemical processes for energy transition. An additional four consortia with members from Leiden have also been awarded funding.