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  Joyce Snijdewint Guest Member

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  j.a.snijdewint@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University News - 26 September 2024

  Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discrimination, engaging students with the Debiaser demo.

• Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy News - 17 January 2024

  Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.

• Workshop on Sign Language Histories Event - 27 June 2024

  Workshop

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  Wessel Kraaij Professor of Applied data analytics

  Faculty of Science

  w.kraaij@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5778

• this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language News - 17 September 2024

  Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?

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  Rick Honings Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.a.m.honings@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272126

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  Peter Bisschop Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2980

• Regieorgaan Open Science officially launched as Open Science NL News - 29 March 2023

  Fifteen knowledge institutions and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science have signed the covenant for Open Science NL. Leiden University has also joined the covenant, via the Universities of the Netherlands. This marks the start of the Dutch Research Council’s and brings the transition to open…

• Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare News - 13 November 2024

  For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’

• Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’ News - 12 December 2025

  In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.

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  Olga Ceran Postdoc

  Faculty of Law

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

• European Days of Languages Event
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  Jelle Goeman Professor Analysis of high-dimensional medical data

  Faculteit Geneeskunde

  j.j.goeman@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 9700

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  Zeynep Anli Researcher

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  z.anli@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sarah de Rijcke Dean / Professor Science and Evaluation Studies

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  decaan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4003

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  Tamara Michaelis PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  t.michaelis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Driving skills: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá Event - 20 February 2026

  Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

• NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’ News - 26 September 2022

  Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.

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  Jian Wang Visiting researcher

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  j.wang@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• A podium for science News - 25 January 2021

  Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…

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  Göran Sundholm Professor emeritus Philosophy of Mathematics and of Logic

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.g.sundholm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  James McAllister Professor History and Philosophy of Science

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.w.mcallister@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2004

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  Florian Schneider Professor Modern China

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272544

• NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’ News - 2 October 2024

  A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.

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  Paul Wouters Professor Emeritus of Scientometrics

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  p.f.wouters@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  V. Nespeca Postdoc

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  v.n.nespeca@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500

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  Alysa Eijkelenboom PhD candidate

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  a.j.g.eijkelenboom@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Petra de Bruijn University Lecturer Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.de.bruijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2592

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  Johanneke Caspers University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.caspers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2157

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  Egbert Fortuin Professor Russian Language and Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.fortuin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2075

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  Amos van Baalen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.w.van.baalen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Olga Lundysheva PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.lundysheva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Matthew Sung PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125

• Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean News - 22 January 2025

  Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.

• grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language News - 17 July 2024

  'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.

• ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe' News - 22 November 2022

  On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.

• Celebrating science on our Faculty with sparkling Leiden Science Family Day News - 10 October 2023

  Elephant toothpaste, a trip among the stars or a lecture on mathematical juggling: on Sunday 8 October 2023, the Faculty of Science opened its doors for the third edition of the Leiden Science Family Day. A programme jam-packed with workshops, demonstrations, lectures and peeks behind the scenes for…

• European Day of Languages - Taalquizine Event - 26 September 2025

  Festival

• The power of citizen science News - 7 October 2025

  From monitoring pollution to tracking rainfall, citizen science comes in different shapes and sizes. But at its heart, it’s about the relationships between citizens, policymakers and researchers.

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  Wouter van Loon Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  w.s.van.loon@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Floris Mansvelt Beck Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  f.f.mansvelt.beck@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276789

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  Casper Wits University Lecturer East Asia Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.wits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6006

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  Akrati Saxena Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  a.saxena@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Emma Devereux PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  e.j.devereux@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Uncorking Language Event - 28 May 2025

  Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat

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  Ton van Raan Professor emeritus Quantitative science studies

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  vanraan@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Shruti Jain Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  s.jain@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gerhard Burger Data Steward

  Faculty of Science

  g.a.burger@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274285

• BAS InSite at the Faculty of Science: what you need to know Announcement - 16 December 2025