PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

Olaf van Vliet is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University. He is also Head of the Department of Economics.

NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.

Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”

We talk with Michiel van Elk, about his research into mapping what effects psychedelics have on the human brain and what this means for the possible clinical application of these drugs. The cognitive psychologist shares his findings with a sober view, bringing critics and fanatics closer together for…

PhD defence

From idea to tangible ‘pretotype’: during two new workshops, psychology students brought their innovative concepts to life. Using simple materials and plenty of creativity, they presented solutions at the intersection of neuropsychology and entrepreneurship.

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…

Adam Cohen in Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and was until 2018 CEO of the Foundation Centre for Human Drug Research (www.chdr.nl). CHDR is a leading institute involved in early drug research in collaboration with LUMC and Leiden University. He is a physician at the department of Nephrology of L…

Joni Reef is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and a Research Fellow at the Department of Criminology, Leiden University.

Roxanne Kieltyka focuses her research on the design, synthesis and use of supramolecular biomaterials. Her goal is to synthetically replicate cell-specific microenvironments within them to instruct cellular behaviour in development and disease.

Ivo Smits is a professor of Arts and Cultures of Japan at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

Lionel Laborie is assistant professor at the Institute for History.

The Claessen lab studies morphogenesis and phenotypic heterogeneity in filamentous actinomycetes, which are prolific antibiotic producers. We pursue several research projects that span areas of multicellular growth and development, stress-adaptation and microbial evolution. By using multidisciplinary…

Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University and Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Bernhard Brandl's research focuses on two main areas: starbursts and instrumentation. He is interested in new instrument concepts, near- and mid-IR instruments, adaptive optics, properties of starbust galaxies and infrared spectroscopy. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the METIS instrument…

Eduard Pop is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Ben Haring is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Dr. Nikki Ikani is Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security. Her key interests are European Security and processes of warning and anticipation of international crises. Her work connects the fields of International Relations, Public Administration and Intelligence Studies. In 2023, Nikki won a NWO…

Frank Pieke is a Professor Emeritus of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies.

Greta Noordenbos became assistant professor of the Department Clinical Psychology of the Faculty Social Sciences of Leiden University in 2001. She is supervisor of Bachelor and Masterthesis about eating disorders and is coördinator of the Elective ‘Transdiagnostic Approach to Eating Disorders’. Her…

Michaël Peyrot’s research focuses on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, in particular the verbal system, and on language contact and prehistory, especially in the Tocharian, Iranian and Indic branches. The leading question is how language contact can be used to draw conclusions about linguistic…

Hannelore Braeken is a PhD candidate at the Economic and Social History section of Leiden University. She is researching loneliness with individuals with mild intellectual disabilities. Hannelore studied history at KU Leuven and the Universidad de Cádiz, and obtained her master's degree in 2024 with…

Maria Yazdanbakhsh is professor in cellular immunology of parasitic infections and is the head of the department of Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID) at LUMC. She engages in basic and clinical research to understand host-pathogen interactions at the molecular, cellular and population…

Marcellus Ubbink studies the relation between evolution, structure, dynamics and function of enzymes, with a particular interest in beta-lactamases. He uses a range of biophysical techniques for this purpose.

Annemieke Verbaas is an education and research staff member at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Henk-Jan Guchelaar is professor Clinical Pharmacy at both the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the faculty of Math & Natural Sciences of the University of Leiden (LACDR). He is head of the department of Clinical Pharmacy & Toxicology of the LUMC and program leader of the research program…

Rint Sybesma is a professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

Miranda Boone is Professor of Criminology and Comparative Penology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Maghiel van Crevel is a professor of Chinese language and literature at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

A geographer and an Indonesianist by training, I have a broad range of research interests spanning the politics, history, geography and sociology of Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. Within Indonesia I have a special interest the island of Sulawesi. I have published on the subjects of nationalism,…

Ferry A. Ossendorp is Professor Molecular Vaccin Biology and head of the Tumor Immunology group in the department Immunology of the Leiden University Medical Centre. He is also member of the Scientific Board of the Dutch Cancer Society KWF.