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• A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’ News - 7 February 2025

  Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights and robots in surgery, for example. The children get to do activities. And ask questions: ‘How do you become a professor?’

• Leiden archaeologists repatriate human remains to St. Eustatius News - 30 March 2023

  Representatives of the Faculty of Archaeology recently traveled to the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius to repatriate human remains. The remains, originally excavated in the 1980s, will eventually be reinterred on the island.

• Lorentz workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology News - 20 December 2023

  From November 13 to 17 2023, a workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology was organized at the Lorentz Center in Leiden by Eduardo Herrera Malatesta (Aarhus University), Felicia J. Fricke (University of Copenhagen) and Maaike de Waal (Leiden University).

• Developing methods on remote sensing detection of archaeological features in Colombia with LDE grant News - 18 January 2024

  A Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research team has been awarded a LDE Global Support Grant to develop reusable algorithms in the remote detection of non-orthogonal architectural features, taking place in the archaeological context of the northern extremities of the Andean, part of the Istmo-Colombian Area.

• Hoe gaan we om met oplopende spanningen? ‘De keuze is: vechten of praten’ News - 12 February 2024

  ‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s Hooglandse Kerk. They discussed the rising tensions since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. ‘Dare to ask each other questions.’

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  Martin Berger Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.e.berger@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Soledad Valdivia Rivera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.valdivia.rivera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2947

• OCW-survey on codetermination in higher education News - 22 March 2021

  The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has started a survey to identify the success factors of a strong codetermination culture within higher education institutes. All members of a codetermination council in higher education can participate in this survey until 2 April.

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  Shekhar Kolipaka Visiting Scholar

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  s.s.kolipaka@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451

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  Brendan Carroll Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  b.j.carroll@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9389

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  Caelesta Braun Professor Public Governance and Civil Society

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  c.h.j.m.braun@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9977

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  Arco Timmermans Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  a.timmermans@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500

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  Maximilian König PhD candidate / guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  m.konig@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  David Ehrhardt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  d.w.l.ehrhardt@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9313

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  Brandon Zicha Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  b.c.zicha@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9354

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  Tanachia Ashikali Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  t.s.ashikali@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500

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  Hannelore Braeken PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.braeken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271348

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  Stefaan Van den Bogaert Professor European Law

  Faculty of Law

  s.c.g.van.den.bogaert@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7373

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  Johan Christensen Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.christensen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500

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  Rahmatan Idul PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.idul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Caspar van den Berg Guest Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  c.f.van.den.berg@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Elise Seip Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  e.c.seip@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274085

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  Gert-Jan Lelieveld Associate Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  lelieveldgj@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6615

• Alex Geurds receives NWO Vici grant for investigating human-environmental engagement across Central America & Colombia News - 2 March 2023

  During pre-Columbian times, the Central American isthmus was marked by dynamic exchange and human mobility. Despite this, indigenous communities were archaeologically stable between AD 300 and the 16th-century Spanish colonisation, contrasting with the cycles of florescence and decline of neighbouring…

• Trends in museums: ‘A lot of museums have a dormant collection of pre-colonial art’ News - 29 November 2021

  What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in his research within the Museums, Collections and Society project, which asks ethical questions about the origin of collections.

• Apply for a PhD scholarship for a candidate with a migration background (Mosaic 2.0) Announcement - 22 March 2024

• From the griffon vulture to Physcia biziana: record number of rare species in campus BioBlitz News - 22 September 2025

  What a result! The Higher Education BioBlitz recorded 3,155 species, smashing our target of 2,500. Thanks to your efforts, Leiden University made an impressive eight ‘very rare’ finds. A result that gives hope for our biodiversity.

• In memoriam: Dr Andrzej Antczak (1956-2024) News - 5 March 2024

  On February 28th of this year Dr. Andrzej Tadeusz Antczak died of cancer after a long battle. Until his retirement in 2023 Andrzej was attached to the Faculty of Archaeology as an Associate Professor in Caribbean Archaeology. From 2017 until 2020 he was the Head of the Department of World Archaeology,…

• Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers News - 23 February 2023

  Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applications are from researchers at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden Observatory, the LUMC and the Faculty of Archaeology.

• Call for Papers symposium on experimentation and innovation in human-environmental links across the Americas Announcement - 5 June 2024

  Research

• A conversation with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Event - 8 December 2023

  Lecture

• The long-awaited UN Summit of the Future has ended − what are the results? News - 24 September 2024

  Many saw the UN Summit of the Future as the moment of truth for the United Nations and its plans for the world. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law, explains the results.

• Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant News - 23 October 2025

  The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.

• Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America News - 26 August 2024

  In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…

• Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories News - 19 December 2022

  Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the University and our researchers are working on solutions. The nitrogen crisis, problems with young people’s services and an increasingly urgent climate crisis:…

• Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor News - 9 July 2024

  Lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor.

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  Somayeh Djafari External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  somie.djafari@gmail.com | 071 5275200

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  Oliver Tuazon External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  o.m.tuazon@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Lianne Otten PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Law

  c.a.otten@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Helena Vrabec Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Law

  h.u.vrabec@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838

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  Marina den Houdijker External Chairman Board of Appeal for Examinations and External Chairman Committee for Appeals and Objections

  Administration and Central Services

  f.m.j.den.houdijker@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8118

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  Inga van Doornmalen External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  i.t.e.h.van.doornmalen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Danny Mekic External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  d.mekic@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hanneke Lankveld External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  h.a.lankveld@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Christine Tremblay Dual PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  c.m.g.tremblay@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589

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  Camille Lefebvre External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  c.l.lefebvre@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Vera Wheni Setijawati External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  v.w.setijawati@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Skylar Joseph PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Law

  a.s.joseph@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Isotta Rossoni External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  i.rossoni@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Mies Grijns Guest postdoc

  Faculty of Law

  m.grijns@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727