Are you curious about how the human skeleton works? Discover this and more on 3 October in Leiden and on 4 October in The Hague.

Workshops, lectures

Jan N. van Rijn works in the computer science department (LIACS) and co-leads the Automated Design of Algorithms group (ADA).

Kathleen Brown is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

In consultation with the Executive Board of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and having heard the views of the Faculty Council, the Executive Board has appointed Bart Barendregt as Dean of the Faculty until 1 April 2027.

Jinhui started as a PhD researcher at the Industrial Ecology Department of CML in September 2019.

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…

Glorious sunshine, dozens of enthusiastic academics and huge numbers of Leiden residents ensured that this year’s special jubilee version of 3 October University was a great success.

Leiden University has taken eighth place in this year’s SustainaBul, the sustainability ranking for universities and universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. It was in 18th place last year.

Elise Dusseldorp is Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research.

Festival

My name is Kostas Georgopoulos and I come from Athens, Greece. I am currently working in Leiden University as part of the Above-Belowground interactions group where my research focuses on the use of soil inoculation as a way to assist the process of afforestation.

Prof. Sarah de Rijcke is Rector Magnificus on the Executive Board of Leiden University. Her responsibilities include teaching, research, student affairs and academic HR policy.

Research

Leiden University is taking a major step forward in the energy transition with the expansion of the thermal energy storage (TES) in the Gorlaeus Building. This expansion is needed to be able to heat and cool all the new and renovated buildings on the Campus Square of the Faculty of Science sustainably.…

Organisation

The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) alliance signed a collaboration agreement with the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology on 23 September.

3 October University has become something of a tradition: a bit of science among the Leidens Ontzet celebrations. During the new and improved edition, the WetenschapsWarenMarkt (Science Market), visitors spoke to researchers about the nitrogen problem, making organs and the city’s connections with A…

If universities and research institutions want to tackle unacceptable behaviour in academia, they must shift their focus from dealing with complaints to preventing such behaviour in the first place. This is what the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has concluded. It has therefore…

Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…

The Executive Board is visiting the university’s institutes to find out what is going on. On 8 July 2025, it was the turn of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), one of the fastest-growing institutes at Leiden University. ‘Our main aim is to preserve our planet for future generations.’

Faizal Rianto is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Julia Folz is a PhD Candidate at the Cognitive Psychology unit under the supervision of Dr. Mariska Kret. Complying with her great interest in both Social and Affective Neuroscience, her PhD project in the CoPAN lab now allows Julia to look at mimicry of subtle emotional expressions in social interactions…

Oscar investigates Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) solutions at CML’s Industrial Ecology department since October 2019.

Organisation, Social

Teylers professor dr. Eric Jorink holds the special chair ‘Enlightenment and religion in historical perspective'. He is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute (KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in Amsterdam. The focus of his research and teaching is the interaction of science,…

Festival

We want to be an engaged community where we feel heard and enjoy working together. But how do we have an open conversation about difficult topics?