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• PhD Candidates: Get more success with less stress Course

  Personal development, Working effectively

• Advancing Learned Algorithms for 2D X-ray Computed Tomography Event - 7 November 2025

  PhD defence

• Enhancing Autonomy and Efficiency in Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning Event - 26 February 2025

  PhD defence

• Deep Learning Solutions for Domain-Specific Image Segmentation Event - 8 October 2025

  PhD defence

• Hybrid Quantum-Classical Metaheuristics for Automated Machine Learning Applications Event - 18 November 2025

  PhD defence

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  Mitra Baratchi Associate professor

  m.baratchi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277492

• method, History as prevention Decentering the history of measles (to better control the disease?) Event - 16 April 2026

  Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

• AI recognizes anxious youth based on their brain structure News - 18 March 2024

  A unique multicenter study, including about 3,500 youth between 10 and 25 years old from across the globe, shows that artificial intelligence - specifically machine learning - is able to identify individuals with anxiety disorders based on their unique brain structure.

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  Michiel Westenberg Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  westenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship News - 3 June 2021

  André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-creation of an international multidisciplinary online learning environment around Frugal Innovation'. André is academic coordinator of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus…

• Next quantum computer comes to the Netherlands News - 22 October 2024

  Europe's latest quantum computer is set to arrive in the Netherlands. The Dutch IT cooperative, SURF, which supports education and research institutions, has secured funding from the European EuroHPC programme to make this possible. Researchers from Leiden University will play a key role in the project,…

• of Linguistic Universals in Neural Agents via Artificial Language Learning and Communication Event - 12 December 2025

  PhD defence

• Two ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers News - 23 November 2023

  Research on quantum computers and Islamic charities: two Leiden researchers have received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.

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  Maartje van der Woude Professor of Law and Society

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.a.h.vanderwoude@law.leidenuniv.nl | 31642123066

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  Maurits Berger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.s.berger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271684

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  Marlou Schrover Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272786

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  Nadia Bouras Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.bouras@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272088

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  Karwan Fatah-Black Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272666

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  Luuk de Ligt Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.de.ligt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272669

• Felienne Hermans explains why you should talk to your computer News - 11 January 2021

  Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In this lecture for the University of the Netherlands, Felienne Hermans (Leiden University) explains how speaking a computer code out loud can help children…

• Master’s students create Graduate Journal: ‘It represents the development we’ve achieved’ News - 28 June 2021

  A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal where Humanities master’s students can prepare for an academic career by publishing articles themselves.

• eLaw hosts second BIAS capacity-building session on AI in the workplace News - 1 December 2025

  On 20 November 2025, eLaw hosted the second capacity-building session of the BIAS project, coinciding with the city’s first snowfall of the year. The training brought together HR practitioners, scholars, consultants, and policymakers to discuss the opportunities and challenges of using AI systems in…

• How infants learn about language within their social context - experimental and observational evidence Event - 27 February 2026

  Lecture, LUCL Colloquium

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  Tessa Verhoef Assistant professor

  t.verhoef@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277903

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  Liesbeth van der Heide Assistant professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  e.j.van.der.heide@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

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  Olga Nozdracheva PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.nozdracheva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272081

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  Tanja Ahlin Research Fellow

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.ahlin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Catherijne Knibbe Professor

  c.knibbe@antoniusziekenhuis.nl | 071 5276329

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  Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart Postdoc / guest

  w.b.verschoof@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Thomas Moerland Assistant professor

  t.m.moerland@liacs.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Femke Stad Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.e.stad@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276790

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  Geert Warnar Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.warnar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272158

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  Marnix Medema Professor

  m.h.medema@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275672

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  Erik Danen Professor

  e.danen@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274486

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  Wim van Anrooij Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.van.anrooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gerhard Burger Data Steward

  g.a.burger@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274285

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  Lars Jeuken Professor

  l.j.c.jeuken@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274755

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  Jelle van Buuren Associate professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  g.m.van.buuren@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Hazel Doughty Assistant professor

  h.r.doughty@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hannelore Braeken PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.braeken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271348

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  Marc Molendijk Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.l.molendijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276674

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  Bram Slütter Associate Professor

  b.a.slutter@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276208

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  Jos Brosschot Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  brosschot@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laura Heitman Professor

  l.h.heitman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274558

• Faculty of Science appoints three new professors News - 1 April 2026

  The Leiden Faculty of Science has appointed three new professors. Daniel Rozen, Frank Takes and Matthijs van Leeuwen were appointed on 1 April.

• One-off elective ‘Policy Evaluation in Practice’ great success at Masters CSM News - 14 December 2021

  Last academic year, Johan van Wilsem, strategist researcher at the Netherlands Court of Audit, taught the one-off elective ‘Policy Evaluation in Practice’ to students of the Master Crises and Security Management (CSM). A great success, for both students as lecturer Van Wilsem. The course scored 8.8…

• Example: Fear Transmission from Parents to Children via Social Fear Learning Pathways Event - 24 January 2025

  PhD defence

• Great expectations: inhibitory learning and change processes in exposure therapy for PTSD Event - 12 March 2026

  PhD defence

• Real-life data ask for strong algorithms: Mitra Baratchi designs them News - 26 July 2024

  How do we deal with large sources of greenhouse gases? Do schools provide a socially-inclusive environment for all children? And how can we protect Earth’s nature? These questions have two things in common: they are complex global challenges, and data can help answer them. Mitra Baratchi is computer…

• Algorithms descend into our sewers to improve inspections News - 1 November 2023

  They never cross our minds until, that is, they become damaged and then they’re a huge problem: our sewers. Their maintenance could be much faster and more accurate, PhD candidate Dirk Meijer has discovered. Algorithms are also proving to be a godsend deep underground.