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• ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe' News - 22 November 2022

  On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.

• European Day of Languages - Taalquizine Event - 26 September 2025

  Festival

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  Casper Wits University Lecturer East Asia Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.wits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6006

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  Ian Shen PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Science

  z.shen@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Projects 2025-2026

  For the academic year 2025-2026, nine (teams of) teachers will receive a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

• Projects 2023-2024

  In 2023-2024 seven (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

• Who are the winners of the Psychology Prizes of 2025? News - 17 December 2025

  Psychology teacher of the year is Laura Nawijn. The Master Thesis Awards are for Max Kalisvaart and David Hof. Lee Aldar wins the PhD Paper Prize. The PhD Wild Card Prize 'Resilient Scientist' is won by Anastasiia Myronenko, Anne Versluis, Annemarie ten Kate, Ashley Smit, Fabian Wolters, Gita Nadinda,…

• Uncorking Language Event - 28 May 2025

  Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat

• Science in the language of children’s books: Honours College students take up the challenge News - 9 October 2025

  How do you explain loss, social inequality or mental health to children without losing sight of the gravity of the subject? The new Honours course From Research to Children’s Book, taught by Annelies van Bentum, challenges students to make complex academic themes accessible through the medium of children’s…

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2069

• NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent' News - 23 October 2023

  When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…

• European Day of Languages Event - 26 September 2024

  Festival

• Sign language emergence and diachronic change Event - 5 November 2025

  Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures

• Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts Event - 24 March 2026

  Conference

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  Marianne van Dijken Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  m.j.van.dijken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marinus van IJzendoorn

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  m.h.van.ijzendoorn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence News - 19 May 2022

  It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…

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  Iris Kole Marketing communication staff member (maternity leave)

  Administration and Central Services

  j.n.kole@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy News - 17 January 2024

  Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.

• ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages News - 16 December 2022

  Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026

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  Enrico Odelli Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272188

• The language of internet memes Event - 14 November 2025

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

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  Sasha Lubotsky Professor emeritus of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• The usefulness of science: ‘Room for exchanging questions, values and ideas' News - 7 May 2021

  Is scientific research useful? In his dissertation, Jorrit Smit argues that in order to answer this question one should not look at, for example, prominent scholars or influential organisations, but at places where knowledge exchange and co-creation take place. Promotion 6 May.

• FSW Education Festival 2025

• LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers News - 18 October 2022

  Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at the Faculty of Humanities. They each receive a sum of 75,000 euros from the Leiden University Fund (LUF).

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  Noboru Yamashita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.yamashita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections News - 13 June 2023

  Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…

• The Values of Language(s) in the Ancient World Event - 12 June 2025

  Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII

• Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research Event - 12 December 2025

  Conference, workshop

• International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration Event - 30 October 2025

• How minority governments could benefit the Netherlands News - 22 September 2025

  Minority governments only become an option when attempts to form a government collapse. PhD candidate Corné Smit explored why such governments have become rare in the Netherlands and what advantages they might offer. ‘Broad majority coalitions often fail to make substantial progress on key issues.’

• Ainu Language Presentation Event - 30 June 2025

  Workshop & exhibition

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  Ahmad Rifai Staff Member Public Services 2

  Leiden University Library

  a.j.rifai@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Yiwen Zou Skills lecturer/Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.zou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mariëtte Groeneveld Administrative staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.p.groeneveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nanouk Sabel Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.n.sabel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Floris Meertens Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.f.meertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Roberta Schiralli Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.s.schiralli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Natalia Gofman Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.d.gofman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tracy Huang Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  q.huang@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Lucja Czort Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.b.czort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  René Wezel Skills lecturer / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.wezel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Florence Fabbricotti Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.f.fabbricotti@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rosa Versluis Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.c.m.versluis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zhibo Mu Skills lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.mu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Annabel Meester Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.meester@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kumiko Hirata Skills teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.hirata@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lidy Bont Administrative staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.c.m.bont@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727