Until December 2017 Professor and Head of the Department Molecular Cell Biology, member board LUMC Division 4, coordinator research profile Biomedical Imaging. Additional professorship Science Faculty Leiden (since 2012), Medical Delta professor at TU Delft (2013) and member of the executive board of…

Jan Crijns (1978) is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University. From 15 February 2024, he holds the position of Vice Dean of Leiden Law School.

Hilde Wermink is Associate Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University. She is also the PhD dean of Leiden Law School.

Piet van der Graaf was appointed as Professor of Systems Pharmacology in 2012. He is also Vice President and Head of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) at Certara.

Silvère M. van der Maarel is professor of Medical Epigenetics and Chair of the department of human genetics. He is coordinator of the LUMC medical research profile Translational Neuroscience and coordinator of the Leiden University research focus area Bioscience: the science base of health. He is also…

Steffie van Gompel is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Elena Maria Rossi obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge with her thesis “Structure and energy content of gamma-ray burst jets”. She held a Chandra Fellowship at University of Colorado and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently, she is Full Professor at the…

Ewine van Dishoeck researches molecules in space. She has gained world fame with her pioneering work. Her current passion is the hunt for water and the water cycle in space. This will provide answers to questions such as: where does the water in our rivers come from? And: could there be life on other…

PhD, Staff

The thermostat in Leiden University’s buildings will be turned down by two degrees. The temperature will also be adjusted in rooms that are cooled. This is the University’s response to the government’s call to use less energy.

Amy Eaglestone is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science.

No more smelly lorries disposing of building waste or delivering building materials to the centre of Leiden. That’s Leiden University’s ambition for its future renovation or construction projects in the city centre. Electric boats should make the process cleaner and less inconvenient for the people…

Bachelor, Master

PhD, Staff

Anthony Brown has a Master of Science degree in Astronomy from the University of Leiden and obtained his PhD there as well. He held positions as PostDoc at the Leiden Observatory, Instituto de Astronomía in Ensenada and at the European Southern Observatory. Currently he is working at the Leiden Observatory…

Adam Cohen in Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and was until 2018 CEO of the Foundation Centre for Human Drug Research (www.chdr.nl). CHDR is a leading institute involved in early drug research in collaboration with LUMC and Leiden University. He is a physician at the department of Nephrology of L…

Joni Reef is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and a Research Fellow at the Department of Criminology, Leiden University.

Roxanne Kieltyka focuses her research on the design, synthesis and use of supramolecular biomaterials. Her goal is to synthetically replicate cell-specific microenvironments within them to instruct cellular behaviour in development and disease.

Ivo Smits is a professor of Arts and Cultures of Japan at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

Lionel Laborie is assistant professor at the Institute for History.

The Claessen lab studies morphogenesis and phenotypic heterogeneity in filamentous actinomycetes, which are prolific antibiotic producers. We pursue several research projects that span areas of multicellular growth and development, stress-adaptation and microbial evolution. By using multidisciplinary…

Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University and Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Bernhard Brandl's research focuses on two main areas: starbursts and instrumentation. He is interested in new instrument concepts, near- and mid-IR instruments, adaptive optics, properties of starbust galaxies and infrared spectroscopy. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the METIS instrument…

Eduard Pop is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.