Anne-Charlotte Dubbelman studied Chemical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, and obtained her BSc degree in 2005 with honor. Later in 2005 she started the master program of Medical Engineering, which was a collaboration study between Eindhoven University of Technology and the University…

I am associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. I work on a variety of cyber security topics, ranging from security risk management and threat modeling to mobile security and secure software development. My main goal is to make organisations more secure by improving their…

I am a PhD student at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). I received both my BSc and MSc degrees in Applied Mathematics at the Technical University Delft specialising in discrete mathematics and optimization. My current research at LIACS focusses on the use of finite field arithmetic…

My research focusses on the development and application of genetically engineered model systems, including mouse models of (BRCA1-associated) breast cancer and human induced pluripotent stem cell models for chemical hazard characterization. In my current position, I combine these research interests…

Nivja de Jong is Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. She holds a dual position at the Centre for Linguistics and the Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON). She supervises MA and PhD students on diverse topics in the field of L2 learning and…

Free cinema tickets or a step tracker paid for by your health insurance. Some insurers offer rewards to promote healthy behaviour. But does the threat of losing something like a deposit work better? And what do patients think? This is what PhD candidate David de Buisonjé researched.

Not experiments and lab coats, but computers and artificial intelligence: this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the groundbreaking AI model, AlphaFold. This programme accurately predicts protein structures based on their genetic code—a crucial step in understanding biological…

PhD defence

Leiden physicists Alexandre Morin and Samadarshi Maity study self-organisation and flocking phenomena. They shed light on flocking, which helps to understand how it is possible that birds in a flock don't collide. With plastic microbeads, they create an experimental setup and they developed a mathematical…

PhD defence

PhD defence

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

The Dutch Development Bank's new SDG loan fund for green energy in the global south may not be as positive as it seems. Anthropology professor Marja Spierenburg raises concerns about its potential impact on local communities.

Carolien Rieffe leads the Focus On Emotions research lab at the Developmental and Educational Psychology section of the Institute of Psychology and University of Twente. She is Professor of Social Interaction Technology at the University of Twente and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Education…

Jorrit Rijpma is professor of European Law, specialisation Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, at the Europa Institute of Leiden Law School. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair on Security and Mobility in Europe (MOSE). Since January 2024, Jorrit Rijpma has been employed by the European Commission, Directorate-General…

Rob van Wijk is Principal Investigator “Translational Immuno-Pharmacology” at the Division of Systems Pharmacology & Pharmacy.

Ed J. Kuijper is currently the head of the Experimental Microbiology and the Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile at the Leiden University Medical Centre and the Centre for Infectious Disease Control of the National Institute of Public Health. Since 2015, his department also hosts the 'National…

Lucy Ataro Opoka is since 1st September 2021, connected to Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School as a PhD Research Candidate.

I’m a molecular geneticist with a foundation in biology, having obtained my BSc in Biology here in Leiden, where I was first introduced to the fascinating world of life sciences. My undergraduate studies sparked a deep interest in cell biology, cancer research, cell signalling, molecular genetics, and…

Professor Arjan Lankester is professor in Pediatrics and Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation. He is also head of the JACIE-accrediated pediatric stem cell transplantation program, chair of the Working Party Inborn Errors of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) and chair of…

Adam Fairclough is Professor Emeritus of American History at the Leiden University Institute for History (Leiden University Chair of the History and Culture of North America, from 2005 to 2016).

Jacques J.M. van Dongen is professor of Medical Immunology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Based on his 35-year experience in Medical Immunology at Erasmus MC, he was recruited to LUMC in 2016 to build an LUMC-wide immune monitoring program. He coordinated 7 European research networks in…

Henk-Jan Guchelaar is professor Clinical Pharmacy at both the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the faculty of Math & Natural Sciences of the University of Leiden (LACDR). He is head of the department of Clinical Pharmacy & Toxicology of the LUMC and program leader of the research program…