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265 search results for “been age” in the Student website

• Import in the Stone Age? How object biographies shed new light on the Neolithic News - 17 April 2026

  On April 22, Lasse van den Dikkenberg defended his dissertation: Living with Flint. For this, he examined flint finds from the Rhine-Meuse Delta. These finds belong to the Vlaardingen culture, which existed here from 3400-2500 BC. His research revealed that import played a larger role in the Neolithic…

• Strong muscles start in the gut News - 12 March 2026

  Researchers from the LUMC and the Universities of Granada and Almería have found a gut bacterium that is associated with stronger muscles in people and mice. Their findings, published in the journal Gut, hint at the potential for new probiotics to support muscle strength and healthy ageing.

• What if you lose a parent at a young age? ‘Grief lasts a lifetime’ News - 13 March 2025

  Adults who lost a parent during childhood tend to experience greater attachment anxiety in romantic relationships, according to Carline van Heijningen’s doctoral research. However, this anxiety was less pronounced among those who recall having a strong bond with their deceased parent during childhoo…

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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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  Jill de Mol Postdoc

  j.de.mol@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276051

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271611

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  Mohammed Raiz Shaffique PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.r.shaffique@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Student Network is brimming with ideas about studying and testing in the age of AI News - 11 December 2025

  How should tests and assessments be organised now that students can use generative AI? This was the subject of one of the first meetings of the newly established AI Student Network. From their unique perspective, the students came up with some very interesting ideas.

• The paleo diet: Is it what our ancestors really ate? News - 31 March 2025

  The paleo diet: eating like people in the Stone Age did, because it is supposed to be healthier. But how accurate are the recipes in this diet?

• Health, Ageing and Society Student-for-a-day Event - 7 May 2026

  Study information, Student-for-a-day

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  Amanda Foks Associate professor

  a.c.foks@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276213

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  Tineke Abma Professor by Special Appointment

  t.a.abma@lumc.nl | 071 5268446

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  David van Bodegom Professor by special appointment

  d.van_bodegom@lumc.nl | 071 5266640

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  Arent Pol PhD candidate

  a.pol@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anna Witteveen PhD candidate

  a.witteveen@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277970

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  Roy Snijckers PhD Candidate

  r.p.m.snijckers@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271340

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  Danxia Zhao PhD candidate / guest

  d.zhao@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276038

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  Romy Dijkland PhD candidate

  r.c.dijkland@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277970

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  Sophieke Lems PhD candidate

  a.s.lems@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271340

• Symposium: The Bronze Age - Setting the Agenda Event - 27 January 2025

  Symposium

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  Pim Arntzen Postdoc

  j.w.arntzen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jacobine Melis PhD candidate

  j.melis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wilco Achterberg Professor

  w.p.achterberg@lumc.nl | 071 5268412

• International students explore the archaeology of Oss: ‘I was responsible for finding 50% of the pottery sherds’ News - 31 May 2024

  The Municipality of Oss is a household name in the world of Dutch archaeology. For fifty years, Leiden archaeologists, in collaboration with residents of Oss, have been uncovering the history of the municipality. 2024 is the archaeological year of Oss! In a series of interviews we look back on fifty…

• Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention News - 8 September 2023

  For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…

• Professor by special appointment Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’ News - 17 May 2022

  Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’

• NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from? News - 28 June 2022

  Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.

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  Thea Vliet Vlieland Professor

  t.p.m.vliet_vlieland@lumc.nl | 071 5263598

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  Laura Bosmans Assistant professor

  l.a.bosmans@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274378

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  Nina Jaspers PhD candidate

  n.l.jaspers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Martijn Defilet PhD candidate

  m.p.defilet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Johanneke Portielje Professor of

  j.e.a.portielje@lumc.nl | 071 5263464

• AnyAge.ai Hackathon: Addressing Age Bias and Fairness in AI-Driven Job Recruitment Event - 24 June 2025

  Hackathon

• These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’ News - 22 November 2023

  Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…

• The new faculty academic year has been opened News - 7 September 2023

  On Tuesday 5 September, the opening of the faculty year took place at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building. Staff and students gathered in the Cleveringa Room to take part in the interactive part of the programme.

• Lorentz Lecture: Working towards evidence-based care for aging transgender and non-binary people Event - 1 April 2025

  Lecture

• Higher Education Knowledge Café: Fair Educational Assessment in the Age of AI Event - 17 April 2026

  Conference, Kenniscafé

• Unfolding Finitudes: Current Ethnographies of Aging, Dying and End-of-Life Care | Online Webinar Series Event
• ‘History has long been written mainly from a male perspective’ News - 23 April 2026

  Historian Seran de Leede delved into the life of Lie Alma (1909–1990), the courageous woman from the Dutch province of Drenthe who spoke out against fascism in the 1930s and remains a source of inspiration to this day.

• Greeks, Persians, and Cilicians: Empire and Identity in the Iron Age Event - 22 April 2026

  Lecture, Byvanck Lecture

• Jim Been new PhD Dean - 'I hope to alleviate certain pressures that PhD candidates might feel' News - 25 October 2023

  The Associate Professor at the Institute of Tax Law and Economics is one of two PhD deans at Leiden Law School and started in this position on 1 October 2023.

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  Weishuo Li PhD candidate

  w.li@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jonathan Ouellet Education Officer

  j.m.ouellet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Johan Jukema Professor by special appointment

  j.w.jukema@lumc.nl | 071 5266695

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  Rolf Groenwold Professor

  r.h.h.groenwold@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Irini Sifogeorgakis PhD candidate / guest

  e.sifogeorgakis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Frank Staal Professor

  f.j.t.staal@lumc.nl | 071 5263800

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  Marloes van Oosterhout PhD candidate

  l.p.j.van.oosterhout@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271031

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  Roderick Geerts PhD candidate

  r.c.a.geerts@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273500

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  Hildo Lamb Professor

  h.j.lamb@lumc.nl | 071 5269111