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• In Memoriam - Bente Hilde Bakker News - 1 October 2024

  Recently, our respected and talented former colleague Bente Hilde Bakker passed away after a long and brave fight with illness. She received her mathematical training at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and also obtained her PhD there under the supervision of Jan Bouwe van den Berg and Robert van…

• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 24 November 2025

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  Berend Gagestein Mass spectrometry specialist

  b.gagestein@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274410

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  Roderick Bouman Postdoc

  r.w.bouman@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272180

• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 25 November 2025

• Afstudeerceremonie MSc Biologie Event - 27 October 2025

• Graduation Ceremony MSc Biology Event - 19 June 2025

  Graduation Ceremony

• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 27 February 2026

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  Reinout Heijungs Researcher

  heijungs@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277461

• Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants News - 4 April 2024

  Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…

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  Frank van der Duijn Schouten Professor emeritus

  f.a.van.der.duijn.schouten.1@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan Vonk Professor

  j.b.vonk@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277149

• New statistical method brings together studies at an early stage News - 4 April 2022

  During the coronavirus pandemic, scientists were in a hurry to find drugs that would help fight the disease. To combine the research that was being carried out around the world, PhD candidate Judith ter Schure developed a new statistical method: ALL-IN meta-analysis. This helps determine sooner whether…

• Hermen Overkleeft

  Chemical Biology is the discipline in which fundamental biological processes are studied by approaches intrinsically rooted in chemistry. The research of Herman Overkleeft is characterized by the design, synthesis and application of chemical probes in glycobiology and immunology.

• Maite Wilhelm

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  Olga Lukina Assistant professor

  o.lukina@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277121

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  Moritz Otto Assistant professor

  m.f.p.otto@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michel Mandjes Professor

  m.r.h.mandjes@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277130

• Dalia Terhesiu

  Dalia Terhesiu is an associate professor at the Mathematical Institute.

• Laura van Kempen-Helmsing

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  Chantal van den Berge Student affairs staff member

  c.m.van.den.berge@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277137

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  Rajat Hazra Associate professor

  r.s.hazra@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Marianne van Batenburg-Visser

• Anja Verduijn-Koenekoop

• Jaime Gomez Ortiz

• Kees Boot

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  Alexander Dürre Assistant professor

  a.m.durre@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277040

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  Hanneke Langeveld-Groenewegen Management/office-assistent

  h.langeveld@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277111

• Odysseas Kanavetas

• ‘Most students are convinced that statistics is not for them. I am here to convince them otherwise’ News - 7 December 2023

  'Frans Rodenburg is an excellent teacher who is able to convey difficult information,' say his students. In his statistics classes, he wants to make students enthusiastic for his beloved subject. 'Most students are convinced that statistics is not for them. I am here to convince them otherwise.' Rodenburg…

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  Pedro Rocha Peixoto Capitao PhD candidate / self funded

  p.rocha.peixoto.capitao@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Aron van Baarsen PhD candidate / Self Funded

  a.n.van.baarsen@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Consensus, bias and polarisation: How mathematicians study opinions News - 25 November 2025

  How do opinions form and change in large groups of people? That's not just a sociological question, it's a mathematical one. PhD candidate Federico Capannoli studied opinion dynamics. He defended his thesis on November 19.

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  Neeltje Blankenstein Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.e.blankenstein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Arthur Ram Professor

  a.f.j.ram@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274914

• Mathematical models for mechanically induced morphogenetic pattern formation Event - 11 March 2026

  PhD defence

• Daan van der Vliet

• 
  Ewa Snaar-Jagalska Professor emeritus

  b.e.snaar-jagalska@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• In Memoriam - Professor Bert Peletier News - 5 January 2024

  On December 16, 2023, our respected and beloved former colleague prof.dr.ir. Bert Peletier passed away.

• Triturus newts reveal a genetic balancing act News - 9 December 2025

  An evolutionary 'trap' that has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise – yet persists all the same. How is that possible? PhD candidate James France found new clues.

• Food for Thought “Generation of the Future” Event - 19 May 2026

  Lecture, Food for Thought

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  Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski Assistant professor

  l.schada.von.borzyskowski@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274278

• How ‘sleeping’ microorganisms can determine the fate of a population News - 12 December 2023

  Microorganisms that temporarily ‘go to sleep’ play an important role in the evolution and survival of a population. Mathematician Shubhamoy Nandan conducted research on the effect of this characteristic called ‘dormancy’ in a novel mathematical model.

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  Pablo Lummerzheim PhD candidate

  p.lummerzheim@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Valentina Masarotto

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  Haowen Zhang Postdoc

  h.zhang@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Emre Sertöz Assistant professor

  e.c.sertoz@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274839

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  Léo Ducas Professor

  l.ducas@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Dimitris Gerontogiannis