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  Manfred Horstmanshoff Professor Emeritus History of medicine

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.f.j.horstmanshoff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Interviews with over 100 civil servants under Trump reveal worrying picture News - 23 January 2025

  It was challenging to get civil servants from the first Trump administration to speak about their work experiences, but sociologist Jaime Lee Kucinskas succeeded. The picture that emerged from her findings, she says, is far from positive. 'The more I spoke with them, the more emotions I saw. They were…

• Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy News - 29 February 2024

  Western civil servants openly struggle with their government’s policies on the war in Gaza. During a meeting at Campus The Hague, three former civil servants told their stories.

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  Floor Veldhuis PhD candidate / PhD fellow

  Faculty of Law

  a.f.veldhuis@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5310

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  Ellen van Beukering-Rosmuller Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Law

  e.j.m.van.beukering@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7400

• Dissertation: The strategic role of ceasefires in civil wars News - 10 May 2021

  The impact of a ceasefire shifts over the course of a conflict, as conflict party leaders learn more about each other’s military and political aspirations and adapt their use of ceasefires accordingly. That’s the key message of the dissertation of Valerie Sticher, PhD-candidate at the Faculty of Governance…

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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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  Ludo Waltman Scientific Director / Professor Quantitative Science studies

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  l.r.waltman@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5806

• 'Civil servants seem to have relatively more power than the minister' News - 15 May 2023

  Marlinde Kapteijn studied Public Administration at Leiden University and decided to apply for an internship after her bachelor. While she enjoyed the internship and was able to learn a lot, she also had to get used to it: 'I had not expected the ministry to be so hierarchical.'

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  Marleen Waaijer-Linders PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Law

  m.u.m.a.waaijer@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jelle Nijland Guest lecturer

  Faculty of Law

  j.nijland@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Silvia D'Amato Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  s.damato@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

• Civility, not opinions, was the real surprise in student debate News - 24 October 2025

  The student debate in Leiden’s Stadsgehoorzaal promised to be ‘the key to your vote’. That may sound hyperbolic, but what this well-attended debate did achieve was increased trust in politics. ‘They even let each other finish their sentences’, the flabbergasted students concluded at the end.

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  Martin Berger Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.e.berger@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Wilco van Dijk Professor Economic Psychology and Its Applications

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  dijkwvan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 31 6 4 3446432

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  Hoko Horii Assistant professor

  Faculty of Law

  h.horii@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7260

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  Maaike van der Plas External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.c.van.der.plas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Caelesta Braun Professor Public Governance and Civil Society

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  c.h.j.m.braun@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9977

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  Merlijn Veltman Guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.veltman@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michiel Westenberg Professor emeritus Development Psychology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  westenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Experiment in Leiden labs: a peek inside a civil servant's head News - 4 June 2024

  Specially for an experiment conducted by Leiden University, public administration experts and water authority officials came together in a laboratory.

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  Casper de Jonge Professor Greek Language and Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2678

• ‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’ News - 21 June 2024

  Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to contend with. Is so much going wrong nowadays? Not at all, says Professor by Special Appointment Sjoerd Keulen. ‘It’s one of the methods that makes democracy…

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  Ruurd Halbertsma Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.b.halbertsma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bert van den Berg University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.m.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272680

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  Anne-Laura van Harmelen Professor Brain, Safety and Resilience

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.van.harmelen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6186

• Video: Leiden staff and external partners reap the fruits of the Knowledge Orchard News - 3 December 2025

  Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration can be tricky. We don’t all speak the same ‘language’ or know how to find each other. At the Knowledge Orchard anniversary event on 28 November, academics made and strengthened connections.

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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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  Jonathan Price Guest Staff Member

  Faculty of Law

  j.d.price@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7548

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  Frits van der Meer Professor emeritus Comparative Public Sector and Civil Service Reform

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  f.m.van.der.meer@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tycho de Graaf Professor Civil Law

  Faculty of Law

  t.j.de.graaf@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4989

• Volume on Internet Governance published News - 1 March 2021

  In March 2021, Prof. dr. Jan Aart Scholte, Professor Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, co-edited with Dr. Blayne Haggart and Dr. Natasha Tusikov the volume Power and Authority in Internet Governance.

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  Sam Hendrikse Lecturer

  Faculty of Law

  s.hendrikse@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Dissertation: Is it One Nile? The complexity and diversity of the world's longest river News - 19 April 2021

  Abeer Abazeed, PhD-student at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, will defend her thesis on Wednesday april 21st. Four questions about her PhD-research ‘Is it One Nile? Civic engagement and hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin’.

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  Diederik Meijer Associate Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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

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  Stephan Raaijmakers Professor Communicative AI

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.raaijmakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278332

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  Jan Spanjaard External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  j.h.m.spanjaard.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lisa Schreuders Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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

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  Sandra van Dijk Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  sdijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3913

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  Karishma Chafekar Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  k.chafekar@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500

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  Corinna Jentzsch Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  c.jentzsch@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273456

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  Cornelis van Tilburg Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.r.van.tilburg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sandra Karten Teaching methodologist for Classical Languages

  ICLON

  s.m.karten@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276547

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  Leonie Henkes PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.c.f.henkes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sybille Lammes Professor New Media and Digital Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.lammes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2754

• Unique collaboration between knowledge institutions and municipality of Leiden News - 8 November 2022

  The city of Leiden has a unique combination of knowledge institutions. To ensure this knowledge flourishes and the city gains the maximum benefit from it, the Leiden City of Knowledge partnership was launched five years ago. A new partnership agreement will be signed on 11 November.

• ‘Value to society has our full attention’ News - 7 February 2022

  Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl can see dilemmas but above all opportunities in the search to increase the societal value of research in Leiden.

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  Frans de Haas Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.a.j.de.haas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272010

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  Ineke van der Ham Professor Technological innovations in Neuropsychology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  c.j.m.van.der.ham@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6746

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  Shelley van der Veek Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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