With Sunday 28 January the annual European Data Protection Day, we are drawing attention to data protection and the right to privacy. Because it’s okay to stop and think before sharing our data or that of others, says privacy officer Eric van Hoof. ‘If you cross the road, you don’t do so without looking…

Ornately decorated head pieces and jewellery, images of imposing mosques and photos of local people. The 'Splendours of the Silk Roads' exhibition depicts life and different cultures along this important trade route.

P. Michiel Westenberg is Full Professor in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology at Leiden University.

Laura Pape is a PhD researcher at the unit of Clinical Psychology. She investigates digital sleep interventions and the role of improved sleep in the prevention of mental health problems.

I investigate how the brain transforms sensory information into useful decisions, and how such decisions change with experience and internal states. My research combines psychophysics and computational modeling of behavioral data with electrophysiological recordings in humans and rodents. I am a passionate…

Denise Groeneveld is a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title thesis: ‘Interventions leading to behavioral spillover. Goal activation through pro-environmental behaviors'.

Yung-Ting Tsou is an assistant professor at Early Childhood Education, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She is also a guest researcher in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the…

Arshad Muradin is a PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute and a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

Working title ‘De wisselwerking tussen kunst en wetenschap aan de Leidse universiteit in 1610’. Dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre.

Judith Frishman is professor emeritus of Judaism at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Franz is a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist who is interested in the neural mechanisms of human decision making and their interactions with the external world.

Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication.…

Dr. Olivier J. M. Béquignon is an Assistant Professor of the division of Medicinal Chemistry in Pr.dr. Van Westen's Computation Drug Discovery group. Olivier is specialized in the use of AI and structure-based drug discovery. He is dedicated to exploring novel cancer therapies using molecular dynamics,…

As a university employee, you probably work with personal data. That is not just names and telephone numbers – it can also include things like cookies. How can you make sure you are working in a privacy-proof way?

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Cleody van der Eijk recently started as the new study advisor and exchange coordinator at Archaeology. Aside from helping students out when they encounter issues during their studies, she will also focus on the process of studying abroad. ‘It is very valuable to get to know another culture, while you…

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Bleda Düring was interviewed alongside researchers working on ancient religions and primates, for an article in the Swiss magazine bref on the emergence of social inequalities. Although perspectives on the rise of social inequalities differ between these researchers they all agree more research on how…

While tens of thousands of visitors dance to deafening music, a team of Leiden psychologists are trying to collect data for their research at Lowlands. How do festivalgoers experience a virtual trip? And what role do factors such as too little sleep and whether they have experience with psychedelics…

Het zal niemand ontgaan zijn dat de digitale dreigingen blijven toenemen. Uit monitoring door onze cybersecurity-experts blijkt dat er continu wordt geprobeerd om ook onze systemen binnen te dringen. Wat doen wij daartegen en hoe kan jij als medewerker bijdragen aan onze cyberveiligheid?