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• ceramic production in the Lesser Antilles during the Ceramic Age and Early Colonial Period Event - 20 February 2025

  PhD defence

• ‘Archaeology is rooting around between the artefact and the person’ News - 8 April 2019

  ‘Archeologists don’t dig up explanations, let alone certainties,’ says Joanita Vroom, Professor of Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia. ‘Their job is to bridge the gap between the sherds that they find and people’s everyday lives. What do ceramics from the past say about people’s eating…

• Homo erectus from the sea: new discoveries from the Sunda Shelf Event - 16 May 2025

  Lecture

• [CANCELLED] Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire Event - 8 April 2025

  Middle East Studies Lecture

• Gut Microbial Metabolomics to Understand Allergies in Early Life Event - 17 March 2026

  PhD defence

• Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2025: History of Emotions (5 ECTS) Event - 24 March 2025
• Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy News - 31 August 2021

  This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

• MS/MS-Based Bone CHIP Species Identification Event - 15 May 2025

  PhD defence

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  Geert Warnar Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Mink van IJzendoorn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.w.van.ijzendoorn@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Willem Adelaar Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.f.h.adelaar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Suzanne Klare PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.h.klare@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bart Verheijen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.j.verheijen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271743

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  Christoph Pieper University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272673

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  Casper de Jonge Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272678

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  Marlieke Ernst Strategic knowledge broker

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.ernst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272583

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  Carlotta Rieble PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.l.rieble@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ricarda Proppert PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.k.k.proppert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wouter Wagemakers Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.a.wagemakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272505

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  Nuranisa Nuranisa PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.nuranisa@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Song Tan Contract PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.tan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Evelien Urbanus Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.l.urbanus@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Stefanie van Goozen Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  goozenshmvan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lucas Gahrmann PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.p.j.gahrmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Andrea Reyes Elizondo Researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.e.reyes.elizondo@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273909

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  Robbert Striekwold External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.j.striekwold@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Simon van der Straten PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  s.van.der.straten@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Elizabeth den Hartog University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272686

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  Marianne van Dijken Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mdijken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eiko Fried Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.i.fried@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zahra Azhar PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Letty ten Harkel Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.t.ten.harkel@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272631

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  Brian Shaev Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.shaev@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276658

• Gripped by ancient hands: Cora Leder awarded prestigious NWO Humanities PhD Grant News - 11 September 2025

  How did early humans use their hands, and what can that tell us about our shared past? Cora Leder, newly awarded recipient of the NWO PhD in the Humanities grant, is set to find out.

• A Universe aglow News - 1 October 2018

  Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE allowed for direct observations of dim clouds of hydrogen glowing with Lyman-alpha emission in the…

• Ethical guidelines to better regulate DNA research on human remains News - 20 October 2021

  Rapid developments in DNA techniques allow researchers to find out more and more about human genetics. An international group of scientists has drawn up five ethical guidelines to ensure that this DNA research is better regulated. Leiden archaeologist Marie Soressi – one of the signatories - explains…

• The future of experiencing the past News - 11 March 2020

  The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. 'It makes archaeological material more accessible. Especially when it comes to fragile materials, it allows nearly anybody to analyse them.'

• André Ramcharan’s Leiden experience: ‘When I started, I didn’t see this as a career path.’ News - 18 June 2020

  André Ramcharan has been a familiar face at the Faculty of Archaeology for decades. Joining our faculty without any knowledge on animal bones, he has become an expert on the matter, supervising the organisation and expansion of the faculty’s collection. ‘We expanded to include birds, fish, and shellfish.…

• Neanderthals could make fire – just like our modern ancestors News - 19 July 2018

  Neanderthals were able to make fire on a large scale with the aid of pyrite and hand-axes. This means they could decide when and where they wanted fire and were not dependent on natural fire, as was thought earlier. Archaeologist Andrew Sorensen has discovered the first material evidence for this. Publication…

• Walking among elephants: A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from Schöningen News - 10 June 2020

  Elephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, remains of at least ten elephants have been found at the Palaeolithic sites situated on the edges of the former opencast lignite mine. Now, a collaboration of archaeologists from University of Tübingen and the Lower…

• From the Solo to the Madura Strait Event - 22 January 2026

  PhD defence

• Keynote Address: The Kindness of Others: Jews, Christians and Early Childhood Care in Medieval Europe Event - 16 September 2025

  Lecture

• The Expansion of Sugar Plantations in Early Modern Java, c. 1740-1780 Event - 21 March 2025

  Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress

• The management of early and late stage melanoma in the modern era Event - 4 June 2025

  PhD defence

• Deep learning in the detection of early inflammatory signs in rheumatoid arthritis Event - 14 January 2026

  PhD defence

• Translating Preclinical Insights into Early Psychopharmacology Trials: Application of the IB-Derisk Analyser Tool Event - 4 December 2025

  PhD defence

• Extracellular Matrix Mechanics in the Regulation of the early steps of the Metastatic Cascade Event - 23 January 2026

  PhD defence

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272027

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  Marga Sikkema-de Jong Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  jongtm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273881

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  Anne-Isabelle Richard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.i.richard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271399