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580 search results for “discovered of the year” in the Student website

• Discover Brussels with Career Service Course

  Career and apply for jobs

• Vote for Brons as Exhibition of the Year! Announcement - 28 August 2025

  Organisation

• Koos Biesmeijer and Claire van Megen nominated for Person of the Year News - 9 January 2024

  Koos Biesmeijer, Professor of Natural Capital, and Claire van Megen, an Educational and Child Studies student, are in with a chance of winning Leiden’s Person of the Year title.

• Discover 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal News - 20 September 2024

  The exhibition Leiden celebrates – 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal shows how parades and society have changed through the centuries. Alumnus and historian Danielle van Goethem worked on the exhibition. She gives a preview.

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  Jo-Hannah Plug Guest Staff Member

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.plug@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mick Remmerswaal PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  m.g.d.remmerswaal@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• How did we discover fire? News - 2 March 2022

  Controlling fire was a turning point in the development of human civilisation. But how did fire become part of the human toolkit? The BBC radio show CrowdScience discusses the topic with Leiden archaeologists Andrew Sorensen and Kathy MacDonald.

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  Gerrit van der Kooij Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  g.van.der.kooij@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Jorre The PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  j.c.the@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp in Discover Magazine on Neanderthal extinction News - 15 December 2021

  Scientists have long assumed Neanderthals simply lost the evolutionary race against humans. But their disappearance may be a bit more complex. In Discover Magazine, Gerrit Dusseldorp sheds light on this illusive question.

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  Turaj Atabaki Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.atabaki@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Merel Brüning Guest Staff Member

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.l.bruning@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Jan van Dijkhuizen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.f.van.dijkhuizen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2147

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  Diederik Meijer Associate Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  d.j.w.meijer@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2444

• Citizen scientists discover more than 1,000 new burial mounds News - 24 January 2023

  Over the past few years, citizen scientists from the Heritage Quest project have scoured the entire Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas for unknown archaeological heritage. One of the results of this research is that the number of known burial mounds in this area has doubled.

• 125,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘fat factory’ discovered in Germany News - 10 July 2025

  The Neumark-Nord 2 site in central Germany, dates back to 125,000 years ago. During an interglacial period with temperatures similar to those today, Neanderthals where doing something we previously thought happened only tens of thousands of years later.

• 15 years Leiden University College

  Leiden University College (LUC), an institute of Leiden University in The Hague – the international city of peace, justice, and security – offers the English-taught Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges since 2010. Inspired by the American university college model, LUC combines…

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  Kristof Gombeer Lecturer/researcher

  Faculty of Law

  k.c.n.gombeer@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Tijm Lanjouw Guest Staff Member

  Faculty of Archaeology

  t.j.r.lanjouw@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Olaf Kaper Professor of Egyptology

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.e.kaper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2041

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  Sam Botan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  s.a.botan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2943

• Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week Announcement - 4 March 2024

  Facility

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  Brian McGarry Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Law

  b.k.mcgarry@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Thea Coventry External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Law

  t.a.c.coventry@law.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Nancy Kula Professor African Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.c.kula@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125

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  Hilde Woker Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Law

  h.j.woker@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Sea of Possibilities (NL/EN): map your next year Course

  Career and apply for jobs, Study support

• Plant-based party on campus: discover and enjoy during Meat and Dairy-Free Week Announcement - 25 February 2025

  Facility, Organisation

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  Joanne Stolk University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.v.stolk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2906

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  Carmen van den Bergh University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.van.den.bergh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2067

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  Roberto Arciero PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  r.arciero@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Leiden archaeologists discover an early form of money from Prehistoric Central Europe News - 20 January 2021

  People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catalin Popa in a PLOS ONE article published on 20 January.

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  Martina Vijver Scientific director/Professor of Ecotoxicology

  Faculty of Science

  vijver@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1487

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  Keiko Yoshioka Lecturer and Head of the Japanese language programme.

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.yoshioka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2553

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  Bleda Düring Professor Archaeology of West Asia

  Faculty of Archaeology

  b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6449

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  Victor Klinkenberg Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.v.klinkenberg@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Jonathan Ouellet PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.m.ouellet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Archaeologists discover worrying signs of axe addiction in Dutch prehistory: 'It set the Netherlands back for at least two millennia' News - 1 April 2025

  Are you worried about your smartphone addiction? Trust us, it could have been far worse… A shocking discovery, by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from Leiden University, revealed that Neolithic people were heavily addicted to stone axes. The axes were produced under horrific circumstances in…

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  Jennifer Swerida Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.l.swerida@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276048

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  Christoph Pieper University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.h.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2673

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  Elena Rossi Professor Theoretical astrophysics

  Faculty of Science

  emr@strw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5877

• Archaeology Student Assessor Imen el Idrissi reflects on the upcoming academic year Announcement - 25 August 2023

  Education, Organisation

• Faculty of Archaeology kicks off celebratory lustrum year News - 13 September 2022

  25 years ago the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University was founded. In the academic year of 2022-2023 several lustrum activities will be organised to celebrate this happy occasion. The year was kicked off with a vibrant party on September 8, inviting staff, students, and alumni.

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  Peter Akkermans Emeritus hoogleraar Near Eastern Archaeology

  Faculty of Archaeology

  p.m.m.g.akkermans@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Throwback: a festive end of the Faculty of Archaeology’s celebratory year News - 25 May 2023

  On Tuesday, the 16th of May, the Faculty of Archaeology put a festive end to the 25th year celebrations. The programme included a dedication of our largest meeting room, the sealing and burying of a time capsule, and a BBQ.

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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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  Egbert Fortuin Professor Russian Language and Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Jan Sleutels Senior University Lecturer Philosophy of Mind and Media Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.j.m.sleutels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2007

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  Lauren Lauret Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.b.lauret@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772