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243 search results for “behaviour biology” in the Staff website

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  Sandra Irmisch Assistant professor

  s.irmisch@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• LUF grant for Neeltje Blankenstein: 'I want to study online risk behaviour of young people in it's full depth' News - 19 October 2022

  Neeltje Blankenstein receives an LUF grant to conduct research on online risk behaviour among young people. What risks do young people take online and why? 'With this research, we not only want to help prevent serious risk behaviour, but also understand what drives young people to it.'

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  Suzanne van de Groep PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.w.van.de.groep@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Graduation Ceremony Biology MSc Event - 17 October 2025

• grant for Neeltje Blankenstein for research to promote healthy online behaviour in youth News - 17 July 2024

  Taking part in TikTok challenges, online gambling, and forwarding nudes. ‘Why do adolescents take online risks?’, psychologist Neeltje Blankenstein wonders. Her research on online risk taking has been awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). Read her answers to five questions.

• Sarah de Rijcke new dean Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences News - 24 May 2023

  Prof. Sarah de Rijcke will succeed Paul Wouters as dean of Leiden University's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW) from 1 January 2024. Paul Wouters will retire at the beginning of January.

• What does the Wadden Sea sound like? New research sheds light on porpoises and underwater noise News - 24 September 2025

  ‘Wadden Sea Sounds’ is the name of a new project launched by the Waddenvereniging in collaboration with researchers from Leiden University and the University of Groningen. The aim is to find out how underwater noise affects marine life in the Wadden Sea.

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  Marco Maiolini PhD candidate

  m.maiolini@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274910

• Leiden Law Cast: Victimisation of sexually transgressive behaviour with Maarten Kunst News - 10 May 2022

  Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.

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  Roderick Bouman Postdoc

  r.w.bouman@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272180

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  Berend Gagestein Mass spectrometry specialist

  b.gagestein@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274410

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  Roeland Merks Professor

  merksrmh@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277106

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  Tressia Chikodza PhD candidate - external affiliation

  t.chikodza@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Graduation Ceremony MSc Biology Event - 26 February 2025

  Graduation Ceremony

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  Wilco van Dijk Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  dijkwvan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 0 6 43446432

• Sugar chemistry – Wouter Remmerswaal’s unrelenting pursuit of understanding News - 25 November 2024

  The dark matter of biology: clumps of sugar molecules that, for example, form sugary webs around pathogens. We know very little about them. Wouter Remmerswaal threw all his talent into the challenge – both in the lab and as a modeller – and succeeded. He received his PhD on 12th September.

• Students discover chimpanzees make rhythmic sounds (despite limited sense of rhythm) News - 17 January 2025

  How can chimpanzees, so closely related to humans, have almost no sense of rhythm? ‘The best students ever’ and behavioural biologist Michelle Spierings demonstrated that chimps can actually drum and move rhythmically—each following their own unique beat.

• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 24 November 2025

• Afstudeerceremonie MSc Biologie Event - 27 October 2025

• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 22 June 2026

• Leiden students build smart antibodies with protein 'Velcro' News - 18 September 2025

  Nine students dove into a challenging iGEM project this summer. With their idea, they aim to make antibodies more efficient - and in the meantime learn at least as much about collaboration, creativity and their own future.

• Biology brothers write book about nature and adventure in Eastern Europe: 'I didn't know there live pelicans in Romania' News - 29 June 2022

  With a self-converted red camper van, biologists and twin brothers Kevin and Marvin Groen go on a nature adventure in Eastern Europe. Together, they search for wild animals, beautiful nature and places to sport. From a long search for a bear in the Slovakian wilderness to the discovery that pelicans…

• Graduation ceremony MSc Biology Event - 25 November 2025

• Graduation Ceremony MSc Biology Event - 19 June 2025

  Graduation Ceremony

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  Josh Robison Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.a.robison@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8005071

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  Anouk van Vliet Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.l.van.vliet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Neeltje Blankenstein Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.e.blankenstein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• How to keep a forest happy? A study on singing behaviour in BaYaka hunter gatherers in Congo News - 7 November 2023

  For the first time, a group of international and interdisciplinary researchers led by Karline Janmaat and her former MSc Student Chirag Chittar, have tested the several hypotheses on music simultaneously in a modern foraging society during their daily search for tubers – their staple food.

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  Arthur Ram Professor

  a.f.j.ram@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274914

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  Frans Jacobs Lecturer

  f.j.a.jacobs@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275000

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  Dani Crowley PhD candidate

  d.crowley@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274759

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  Duygu Uysal Dincol Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  d.m.uysal.dincol@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laurens van Gestel Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.c.van.gestel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Daan van der Vliet Postdoc

  d.van.der.vliet@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ewa Snaar-Jagalska Professor emeritus

  b.e.snaar-jagalska@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rachel O'Connor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.a.oconnor@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Katja Cardol Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.k.cardol@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275697

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  Winifred Gebhardt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  gebhardt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274084

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  Coen Wirtz Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.wirtz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273731

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  Kia Radovanovic PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  k.radovanovic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sebastiaan Grosscurt PhD candidate

  s.grosscurt@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hermen Overkleeft Professor

  h.s.overkleeft@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275037

• Getting people on board with the energy transition: ‘Times of crisis can help’ News - 29 August 2022

  The gas prices now exceed 300 euros per megawatt hour – a record. The transition from fossil (natural gas, coal, oil) to renewable energy is needed and soon. But how do you get a society (and its citizens) to switch to sustainable energy?

• Triturus newts reveal a genetic balancing act News - 9 December 2025

  An evolutionary 'trap' that has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise – yet persists all the same. How is that possible? PhD candidate James France found new clues.

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  Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski Assistant professor

  l.schada.von.borzyskowski@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274278

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  Marijn Nagtzaam Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.a.m.nagtzaam@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Simon Otjes Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.p.otjes@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273946

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  Joop van Holsteijn Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  holsteyn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Paul Kessler Prefect / professor by special appointment of Botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia

  Faculty of Science

  p.j.a.kessler@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5235

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  Yvette Dijkxhoorn Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  dijkx@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273822