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• ‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ News - 11 January 2024

  Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…

• From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery News - 28 May 2024

  Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.

• Leiden student Lucas Pistorius wins Moot Court competition on day of Thorbecke Lecture News - 25 April 2024

  The 2024 Thorbecke Lecture was held on Friday 19 April, with the theme of ‘The role of the Court of Justice in protecting the consumer’. Before the lecture, students from Leiden Law School and Ghent University’s Faculty of Law competed in a Moot Court competition based on the same topic.

• Leiden University 2nd Best in the 2021 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition News - 20 April 2021

  The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world’s largest moot court competition. The Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice. This year more than 570 law schools from across the world participated.

• Launching new CPL course Academie voor de Rechtsstaat: focus on developing ‘a constitutional antenna’ News - 4 July 2023

  Leiden University's Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) and the Montesquieu Institute are jointly launching the ‘Academie voor de Rechtsstaat’ (Academy for the Rule of Law). With this initiative, they intend to offer a course providing in-depth knowledge and insight into the basic principles of the…

• The rocking researcher: Marjolein Fokkema connects disciplines with algorithms and pop songs News - 16 October 2023

  From predicting Alzheimer’s to the growth of organisms: psychologist Marjolein Fokkema’s algorithms can be used in many disciplines. They also provide inspiration for her songs, theatre shows and life lessons. What drives this rocking researcher?

• ‘If you understand the risks, AI is an incredible tool’ News - 16 October 2025

  Thomas Moerland studied medicine and mathematics in Leiden and has a lifelong fascination with the origins and workings of intelligence. He brought all that together in his popular science book Van IQ naar AI (From IQ to AI).

• Providing information in palliative care: what if patients don’t want to know everything? News - 17 September 2025

  How do you behave towards patients with life-threatening conditions who do not want to know all the details of the state of their health? This question brought psychologist Liesbeth van Vliet and anthropologist Annemarie Samuels together. It’s an unusual partnership, but their interdisciplinary approach…

• Vici grants for three Leiden researchers News - 15 March 2022

  Three Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced on Tuesday. Two of the researchers work at Leiden University and the third at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).

• New endowed chair brings astronomy and AI together. ‘AI can help improve our understanding of the Universe’ News - 2 December 2025

  ASTRON en de Universiteit Leiden beginnen samen een nieuwe leerstoel over sterrenkunde en AI. Bijzonder hoogleraar Joeri van Leeuwen gaat deze positie vullen.

• How does artificial intelligence influence democratic processes? News - 22 January 2026

  An international team of researchers, including scholars from Leiden University, has received a Seed Funding Grant within the Una Europa network. The project, Democracy and AI, focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence on the functioning of democratic systems.

• ‘An internship can be very enlightening in helping you figure out where your interests lie’ News - 28 September 2023

  Niels Broekman did an internship at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, where he worked on, among other things, biodiversity advocacy. After his internship, he decided to go in a different direction: ‘An internship can be very enlightening in helping you figure out where your interests…

• Introducing: Angus Mol News - 20 April 2018

  Sinds Februari, werkt Angus Mol als UD bij het Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH). Zijn aanstelling wordt gedeeld door het Instituut voor Geschiedenis en het Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). Hiervoor werkte hij voor het Prins Claus Fonds voor Cultuur en Ontwikkeling, deed NWO-Rubicon onderzoek…

• Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee' News - 6 December 2022

  It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

• Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant News - 23 October 2025

  The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.

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  Jorge Duran Solorzano PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.f.duran.solorzano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Thijs Witty University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.witty@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rob Nelissen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  r.g.h.h.nelissen@lumc.nl | 071 5263606

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  Frits Rosendaal Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  f.r.rosendaal@lumc.nl | 071 5264037

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  Ana Cardozo de Souza Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.p.cardozo.de.souza@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272139

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  David Ehrhardt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  d.w.l.ehrhardt@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009313

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  Ernst van Alphen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.van.alphen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Suzanne Klare PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.h.klare@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jet Bussemaker Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  m.bussemaker@lumc.nl | 070 8009047

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  Ratna Saptari Soetikno Slamet Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  rsaptari@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Adriana Churampi Ramirez University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.i.churampi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272064

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  Helen Westgeest Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.f.westgeest@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ali Shobeiri Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.shobeiri@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272752

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  Yasco Horsman University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.horsman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272777

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  Erik-jan Zurcher Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.zurcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272069

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  Alex Reuneker Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.reuneker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274184

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  Benedetto Neola Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.neola@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Cristiana Strava University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.strava@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274676

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  Serge Rombouts Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  romboutssarb@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5269111

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  Julia Rootenberg Ph.D. fellow

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.m.rootenberg@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.k.krakowska.rodrigues@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271806

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  Céline Zaepffel Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.v.zaepffel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ed Kuijper Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

  e.j.kuijper@lumc.nl |

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  Thijs van Osch Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  m.j.p.van_osch@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Jessica Kiefte-de Jong Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  j.c.kiefte@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Peter Verstraten University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.w.j.verstraten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272248

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  Olaf Dekkers Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  o.m.dekkers@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Joery Matthys Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.matthys@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009395

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  Douglas Berger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.l.berger@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276497

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  Christopher Green University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.k.green@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272327

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  Ingrid Meulenbelt Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  i.meulenbelt@lumc.nl | 071 5269734

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  Paul Hudson Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  p.f.hudson@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009330

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  Johan Christensen Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.christensen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Carmen van den Bergh University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.van.den.bergh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272067