Paul van Els is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Marcello Bonsangue is scientific director, coordinator for the international students and relationships and member of the Scientific Council of LIACS.

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

Patrick Degryse is a guest staff member at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, as well as full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Dennis Bos is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

Willem van Wijk is a PhD-candidate and lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Fitri Murfianti is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Sara Polak is a University Lecturer in American Studies and Modern English Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She is PI of the ERC Project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028.

Kiana is a PhD candidate at the Translational Data Science & AI Lab (TDS Lab). Her research focuses on developing NLP- and LLM-based data mining tools and contributing to an AI observatory platform to support federated access to health research data and to improve cross-border collaboration in cancer…

Kitty Zijlmans is a Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Art History and Theory/World Art Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Arthur Crucq is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He lectures about topics such as art and anthropology, art theory, representation and style, regarding fields as diverse as architecture, ornament, painting, sculpture and textiles. In recent years he published…

Peter Webb is University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Arabic Literature and Culture at Leiden University. He specialises in early Arabic poetry and prose, combining philology, literary analysis, and anthropological approaches to examine how poetic, narrative, and historiographical traditions shaped…

Susana Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. With a PhD in medical translation, her research intersects machine translation, AI, health communication, and migration.…

Ariëlle Reitsema is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. In the NWO-funded project

Chuang Liu is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Yuyang Wei is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Angelo Romano is an Assistant Professor at the unit Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology at the Institute of Psychology. He is interested in understanding the psychology of conflict and cooperation among people, groups, and nations.

Peter Burger is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Sara Petrollino is a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She is an anthropological linguist specialised in languages and cultures of East Africa. She studies the relationship between language, culture and cognition, so how do the languages we speak…

As a sociolinguist, I am interested in how people use language in daily situations to achieve a variety of goals. As people do this, two things become immediately obvious. First, people routinely mean more than their words mean, so we always need to read between the lines of each other's (spoken or…

Lucien van Beek is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research focuses on Comparative Indo-European linguistics (morphology, semantics, lexicography, etymology) and philology, especially regarding the oldest sources of Greek. He conducted a VENI project 'Unraveling…

Nicky Schreuder is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Sophie Starrenburg is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. Her work broadly focuses on the intersections between public international law and cultural heritage. Currently, her research concentrates on cultural heritages…

Leonor Jonker (1987) is a historian, author, and artist. She was the scientific curator of an exhibition on the Namibian genocide at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (25 November 2016 - 12 March 2017).

Around seven per cent of children have difficulty learning their mother tongue because they have some form of developmental language disorder (DLD). World DLD Day on 15 October called attention to this disorder. Development psychologist Neeltje van den Bedem explains why this is important.

Alessandro Aleo is a PhD candidate at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology.

Nurul Huda Rashid is a postdoctoral researcher with the Project One Among Zeroes |0100|: Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam, at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) at Leiden University.

Leticia Pablos Robles is an associate professor within the track language and cognition in Experimental Linguistics. She is specialized in sentence comprehension and she has a special interest in topics such as: prediction in the brain, processing of long-distance dependencies and the use of prosodic/semantic/syntactic…

Elizabeth den Hartog holds a post as associate professor at Leiden University (since 1986), teaching art and architecture until 1600. From 2001-2012 she was also director of the Castle Foundation Holland and Zeeland. Her main research interest is in medieval art and architecture, a subject on which…