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  Alain Wijffels Professor emeritus Legal History

  Faculty of Law

  a.a.wijffels@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Anna van 't Veer Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.e.van.t.veer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1822

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  Sander Nieuwenhuis Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience of Decision Making

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  snieuwenhuis@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3834

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  André Leliveld Senior Lecturer

  African Studies Centre

  a.h.m.leliveld@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 715272 727

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  Matana Ng'weli PhD candidate - contract

  Faculty of Science

  m.l.ngweli@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Leonardo Lenoci ICT Research and Security Advisor

  Faculty of Science

  l.lenoci@science.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8484

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  Kaya Peerdeman Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  k.j.peerdeman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273622

• Elena Maria Rossi continues her search for the origins of the largest black holes, but now as a professor News - 9 October 2023

  Elena Maria Rossi is fascinated by black holes. Her appointment as a professor was a long-held wish, partly because there are so few female professors in her field. ‘My appointment is also a milestone for the Leiden Observatory.’

• No exams or lectures, but building a radio telescope with empty paint cans News - 22 February 2022

  No more lectures and exams for the Radio Astronomy course taught by Michiel Brentjens. The corona crisis is a moment of reflection that has changed his whole way of teaching. Instead of being in front of the class, he lets his students build a radio telescope with paint cans.

• Communication about quantum technology offers many opportunities (but there are risks too) News - 21 April 2023

  Watching and analysing hundreds of TEDx talks, that too can be research. That becomes clear from the work of PhD student Aletta Meinsma, who is studying potential problems in popular communication about quantum technologies. She explains how she approaches this and why it is so important.

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  Melissa Hernandez Vindas PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

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

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  Rachel Plak Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  r.d.plak@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Shelley van der Veek Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  sveek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3767

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  Neeltje Blankenstein Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  n.e.blankenstein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Julia Folz Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  j.folz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Femke Reidsma Postdoc / guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  f.h.reidsma@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Miranda Boone Professor of Criminology and Comparative Penology

  Faculty of Law

  m.m.boone@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4907

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  Csilla Ariese Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.e.ariese@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• First ring-forming embedded planet discovered around a young sun-like star News - 26 August 2025

  Astronomers led by Leiden PhD candidate Richelle van Capelleveen have, for the first time, discovered an exoplanet that has carved a bright gap in the protoplanetary disc around its star. This rare observation provides new insights into how young planets shape their surroundings.

• ‘The sun is dying out’ as a wake-up call for better science communication News - 7 June 2024

  ‘Take science communication more seriously.’ This is the message that Ivo van Vulpen, professor by special appointment in Science Communication in Physics, wants to convey during his inaugural lecture. At the moment, a lot of researchers look down their noses at this while it is extremely important…

• Introducing... The Marketing & Communications department Announcement - 1 June 2023

  Organisation

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  Yuze Zhang PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  yuzezhang@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yunhao Zhang PhD / guest

  Faculty of Science

  yunhaozhang@strw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5737

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  Bin Jia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  jia@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 'There's nothing more we can do for you' - New publication on harmful communication in oncology News - 23 January 2024

  PhD student Janine Westendorp and her colleagues conducted literature research on what patients with cancer and their loved ones perceive as harmful communication from healthcare providers. The results were published in the journal Psycho-Oncology and are released as a poster to distribute to healthcare…

• Smeets and Alex Verkade coordinators of national centre for science communication News - 21 September 2022

  Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as coordinators of a new national centre for science communication. The centre will foster a dialogue between researches and society and will gather and share expertise to make science communication more…

• KNAW fund 'Science communication by scientists' awarded to Yvonne Erkens and Robert Heinsch News - 22 April 2021

  Two Leiden legal scholars have been awarded funding from the KNAW pilot fund 'Science communication by scientists: Appreciated!'. The fund supports scientists who have demonstrated a continued commitment to science communication.

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  Floor van Meer Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.f.van.meer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Brenda de Groot Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  b.de.groot@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Jeshua Tromp Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  j.j.tromp@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maarten Schrama Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

  m.j.j.schrama@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7483

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  Xiaochen Zheng Researcher

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  x.zheng@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Franz Wurm Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  f.r.wurm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Ruthie Pliskin Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  r.pliskin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6762

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  Verena Ly Senior policy adviser

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  v.ly@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Inocêncio Joao Raul Zandamela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.j.r.zandamela@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272307

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  Carel ten Cate Professor emeritus of Animal Behaviour

  Faculty of Science

  c.j.ten.cate@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5040

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  Ralph Rippe Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  rrippe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273889

• This is how astronomers found out how three stars were ejected from star cluster R136 News - 15 July 2025

  Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster R136, 60,000 years ago. The analysis reveals that five stars were involved in the event in the Tarantula Nebula.

• Funding for science communication on deaf community and on losing your way News - 1 August 2024

  Two Leiden University science communication projects have been awarded a WECOM grant through the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). One project is a study of the history of the deaf community in the Netherlands and the other is of a condition that causes people to lose their way.

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  Paul Wouters Professor Emeritus of Scientometrics

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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

• Call for proposals: NWA Science Communication 2023 Announcement - 8 May 2023

  Research

• Archaeologists receive funding for science communication: ‘We want to change the public image of archaeology’ News - 10 May 2021

  A diverse team of Leiden archaeologists applied for, and was awarded, the KNAW ‘Appreciated!’ grant, meant to further their science communication endeavours. We speak with Dr Maikel Kuijpers, who is the main contact person of the application.

• 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…

• Serving diverse communities organised its first tasting Announcement - 30 October 2023

  Social

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  Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni Senior assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  v.tsagkroni@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 715275 436

• The danger of unregulated online communications News - 8 July 2025

  Social media gives people a voice but also fuels online hate, especially against marginalised groups. PhD candidate Eva Nave: ‘While end-to-end encryption protects activists, it also enables criminal activity, creating a more accessible version of the Darkweb.’

• Include local communities in policymaking News - 9 May 2022

  Forest degradation has limited the Orang Rimba's access to forest resources. As a result, they've had to make significant cultural modifications and adaptations. Ekoningtyas Margu Wardani explains in her PhD dissertation these transformation processes among Contemporary Indonesian Hunter-Gatherers through…

• Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia News - 9 March 2022

  Erik de Maaker wrote a monograph on how Garo, an indigenous community of the extended eastern Himalayas, experience and negotiate such disparities. The book shows how relatedness is reinterpreted as religious practices change, and communally held land ends up being privately controlled. Erik de Maaker…

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  Fenying Zang PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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