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• More than motor skills: study of cognitive and psychological symptoms of Parkinson’s News - 7 October 2025

  Cognitive decline and anxiety in Parkinson’s disease are often only recognised at a late stage, in spite of their great impact. Research by Marit Ruitenberg focuses on new tests and methods to show up these symptoms earlier and make them more specific.

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  Moji Aghajani Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.aghajani@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276030

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  Julia Folz Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.folz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Henk van Steenbergen Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  hsteenbergen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273655

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  Katharina Riebel Associate professor

  k.riebel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275149

• Archaeologist Sarah Schrader receives a grant to explore the evolution of stress News - 13 February 2023

  Stress and overwork are massive problems today, but relatively little is known about stress factors in the past. With a look at the deep history of stress, Sarah Schrader hopes to get a better understanding of the human stress experience. Her project application received an NWO XS grant.

• Veni grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language News - 17 July 2024

  'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.

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  Isabelle Kaiko Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  i.r.kaiko@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Vincent Niochet PhD candidate

  v.niochet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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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

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  Ineke van der Ham Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.j.m.van.der.ham@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276746

• Psychology-colleagues are raising money for MS-research: ‘Most of us take their cognitive skills for granted.’ News - 11 May 2023

  Running, walking or horseback riding: colleagues from the Health, Medical and Neuropsychology unit are each working up a sweat this month to raise money for research on Multiple Sclerosis. How much have they collected so far?

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  Merijn de Bakker Education and research staff member

  m.a.g.de.bakker@biology.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Kees van Putten

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  putten@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marco Maiolini PhD candidate

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

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  Carel ten Cate Professor emeritus

  c.j.ten.cate@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275040

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  Steven Miletić Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.miletic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Julian Steinke PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.steinke@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eveline Crone Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  ecrone@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laura Steenbergen Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.steenbergen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273875

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  Kim Stroet Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  k.f.a.stroet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273955

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  Marloes van Moort PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.l.van.moort@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Linda van Leijenhorst Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  lleijenhorst@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273750

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  Tim Laméris University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.j.lameris@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275634

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  Fenying Zang PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.zang@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hüseyin Beyköylü PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  h.beykoylu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Guillermo Guerrero PhD candidate

  g.guerrero@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Psychology Connected on ChatGPT: How can we use AI without losing our own cognitive skills? News - 21 June 2023

  Writing essays, refining grant applications, or creating a new course curriculum—ChatGPT assists students and researchers in these endeavours. What this new technology means for working in academia, was discussion at the fourth Psychology Connected event.

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  Gerrit Dusseldorp Associate professor

  g.l.dusseldorp@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272428

• Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research News - 18 February 2021

  Four green research institutes in Leiden are joining forces to integrate evolution and biodiversity research, at local and at the national level. Pivot in this collaboration is Frederic Lens.

• Tropical bananaquits lose song quality in the city News - 21 September 2021

  I think we should go this way. This way! THIS! WAY!! Making yourself heard in a city can be difficult. That is not only the case for humans, but birds seem to be hindered by urban noise as well. Researcher Hans Slabbekoorn of Leiden University already showed that great tits in Leiden communicate differently…

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  Harriet Vermeer Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vermeer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273491

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  Simon Portegies Zwart Professor

  spz@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278429

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  Cora Tabea Leder PhD candidate

  c.t.leder@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sebastian Fajardo Bernal Postdoc

  s.d.fajardo.bernal@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Leiden archaeologists uncover earliest evidence of plant food processing News - 7 January 2025

  A new study carried out by Leiden archaeologists Hadar Ahituv and Amanda Henry, together with international colleagues, reports the identification and analysis of 650 starch grains preserved on basalt percussive tools (anvils and hammerstones) found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These…

• Supergenes make bizarre traits possible News - 13 June 2022

  Within the same species of butterfly many different wing patterns can occur. How is this possible? According to researchers Ben Wielstra and Emma Berdan, of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), the answer lies within supergenes. A supergene is a part of a chromosome that contains many strongly linked…

• Veni-grant for Michelle Spierings: ‘Do birds hear tick-tock too, or tock-tick?’ News - 22 December 2021

  ‘I did not expect to receive the grant, but it will make an amazing research possible,’ Michelle Spierings says. The researcher of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) got awarded a Veni-grant of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

• NWO grant of 350.000 for Wielstra lab News - 30 September 2021

  Ben Wielstra and his team have received a ENW-M-1 grant. This grant of 354.000 euros is awarded by NWO, and will enable the researchers of the Institute of Biology Leiden and Naturalis to continue their evolutionary newt research.

• As new Professor of Social Cognition and Decision, Lotte van Dillen studies how we make choices in an information-overloaded world News - 23 September 2024

  Due to technological and societal developments, we are being flooded with more information than our brains can process. How does this affect our decision-making, both as individuals and as a society? And can we learn to make better choices? This is what Lotte van Dillen will explore with her profess…

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  Marie Soressi Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology

  m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275355

• Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research News - 5 February 2024

  Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). The prize consists of a sum of 1m euros.

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  Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski Assistant professor

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

• Workshop Generative AI & Embodied Cognition Event - 22 May 2025

  Lecture

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  Paul van den Broek Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  p.vandenbroek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bianca Boyer Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  b.e.boyer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’ News - 11 May 2022

  In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particularly curious about how language is processed in the brain.

• Generative AI and Embodied Cognition Event - 25 November 2025

  Conference, workshop

• What does ‘human’ really mean? When Philosophy and archaeology join forces News - 30 June 2025

  Archaeology is the only science that allows us to study the material traces left by most of human evolution. But what happens when we bring philosophy into the picture? A new series of papers demonstrates how philosophical reflection can enrich archaeological research - especially when grappling with…

• Mariska Kret receives Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2025 News - 20 November 2025

  Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mariska Kret has been awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for her pioneering research into emotions. Kret: ‘This prize offers a wonderful opportunity to give a boost to emotion research.’