Marieke Adriaanse is Professor Behavioural Interventions in Population Health. This is a combined chair of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW), which is part of the interdisciplinary Population Health programme. She works at the department…

Inge van der Weijden is a senior researcher and PhD coordinator at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. She is a coordinator of the Evaluation & Culture focal area.

Wilco van Dijk is professor Economic Psychology and its applications and chair of the unit Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology. He is also director of the Knowledge Centre Psychology and Economic Behaviour.

Judi Mesman (1974) has been a professor at Leiden University since 2009 and focuses on the study of social (in)justice with special attention to intergenerational issues at individual and institutional levels. Since 2024, she has also been appointed Distinguished Professor of Social Responsibility and…

Renske Janssen is a postdoctoral researcher in Classics and Ancient History. She has a particular interest in Roman law and administration, as well as religion in the Roman world.

Diederik Meijer is a retired associate professor in Archaeology of the Near East.

Sandra van Dijk is Assistant Professor at the unit Health, Medical and Neuropsychology of the Institute of Psychology. Her research focuses predominantly on chronic diseases and how individuals cope with such a condition.

Adriaan Bedner is Professor of Law and Society in Indonesia at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society. He is also Head of Department of the Van Vollenhoven Institute and honorary fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).

The American Chemical Society’s Publications Division (ACS) and VSNU, in its role representing Dutch universities and participating research institutions, have reached an agreement whereby open access publishing arrangements will be a part of the subscription licensing contract between the US-based…

Tsolin Nalbantian (MA NYU, 2003; PhD Columbia, 2011) is an Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History. She focuses on diasporas, minorities, and the modern political and social history of Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the Caucasus.

P. Michiel Westenberg is Full Professor in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology at Leiden University.

As of 1 May 2019, McGonagle holds the chair in Media Law & Information Society. The chair is financed by the A.W. Hins Fund, administered by the Leiden University Fund. Tarlach specializes in a range of issues relating to media law and the information society: freedom of expression; the interface between…

Paul Wouters is Emeritus professor of scientometrics. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences from January 2019 through December 2023.

From academic freedom to security and medical breakthroughs: during Leiden University’s 451st Dies Natalis, the speakers reflected on the role of universities in a world of social and geopolitical tensions.

Anke Klein is an Associate Professor in the department of Developmental and Educational Psychology. She develops and studies the treatment of anxiety, mood problems, and related problems in children and adolescents, with a particular emphasis on parent–child mechanisms and intervention innovation. She…

Afshin Ellian is Professor of Jurisprudence.

Femke E. Bakker is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science.

Wouter Wagemakers is a specialist in Italian renaissance art and architecture, and lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. At Leiden University, he teaches a survey course on European renaissance art and architecture, 1300-1550; and co-teaches seminars about Rome, the Global Renaissance, and…

Jan Sleutels is a Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

Elisabeth Schreuders is an assistant professor in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

Mies Grijns is a Guest Researcher at the Van Vollenhoven Institute.

Annemarie Samuels is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Prof.dr. Maurits S. Berger, LLM (1964) is a lawyer and Arabist. He is professor of Islam and the West and holds the Sultan of Oman Chair for Oriental Studies at Leiden University, and is a senior research associate with the Clingendael Institute for International Relations in The Hague. He has worked…

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