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…

Miko Flohr is a lecturer in Ancient History studying the social and economic history of the Greco-Roman world, with a special interest in urban commerce and everyday work in Roman Italy, particularly in Pompeii, Ostia and Rome. Educated as a classicist, and with a Ph.D. in archaeology, he teaches on…

Cornelis van Tilburg is an education and research assistant at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Maarja Seire is a PhD student at the Institute for Area Studies.

Ben Haring is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Jürgen Zangenberg is professor for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University with a main interest in contemporary Arabic visual culture and literature. She has worked mainly on cities & urban imaginaries and memory & temporality.

Cisca Hoogendijk is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Rens Tacoma is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

My research revolves around philosophy, intellectual history and Islamic studies, and broad subjects surrounding the humanities i.e., philosophy of religions and worldviews, religious studies, hermeneutics, and ethics.

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

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

Irene Vikatou is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

An international team of astronomers, including Leiden PhD student Elia Pizzati, has observed several ancient quasars that, surprisingly, appear to be floating alone in the early universe (less than a billion years after the Big Bang). Until now, astronomers, based on models, assumed that quasars are…

Dr Michael Kerschner is Senior Guest Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology. Parallel to this position he is a research associate at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and responsible for the research focus “Cult and Sanctuary” there. His main field…

Dr Marike van Aerde is Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department. Her research focuses on trade routes and exchange networks spanning from ancient Egypt to the 1st-millennium Indian Ocean. Her work includes ceramics and glass analyses, petroglyphic documentation, and methodological applications…

Luuk de Ligt is a professor at the Institute for History.

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

Jonathan Stökl is assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.

I specialize in the field of modern Middle East studies, concentrating on the region's politics and international relations (history and theory), foreign policy analysis, and diplomatic history. As a historian of international relations I have developed special research interests in the Arab-Israeli…

Charlotte van der Voort is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests revolve around the interface between ancient and modern rhetoric, argumentation theory and philosophy (of language).

Titel research: Essay on Prudence: Hume, Kant and Aristotle on practical rationality.

Are magnetic fields older than the first light? And how did they influence the development of our universe right after the Big Bang? Cosmologists from Leiden, Groningen, and Utrecht are now collaborating to investigate this.

Her father is a miller, so it’s hardly surprising that Esther van der Ent is also fascinated by windmills. Alongside her work at the Centre for Environmental Sciences (CML) and the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus alliance, Esther is now training to become a miller herself. ‘This craft mustn’t be lost,’ she say…

Hylke Hettema is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

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…