Onur Ada is a lecturer at International Studies.

Ugur Derin is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Teylers professor dr. Eric Jorink holds the special chair ‘Enlightenment and religion in historical perspective'. He is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute (KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in Amsterdam. The focus of his research and teaching is the interaction of science,…

Prof.dr. Maurits S. Berger, LLM (1964) is a lawyer and Arabist. He is professor of Islam and the West and holds the Sultan of Oman Chair for Oriental Studies at Leiden University, and is a senior research associate with the Clingendael Institute for International Relations in The Hague. He has worked…

Gina van Ling is a lecturer at the BA International Studies and is affiliated with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). She has a background in Sinology and Law.

Marc Buijnsters is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Prof. Owada can't be reached at the university. Please email to: h.owada@icj-cij.org

Gabe van Beijeren teaches courses in Classical Chinese and assists in teaching courses in Chinese history and Chinese philosophy and religion.

Dr. Bareez Majid is an Alfred Landecker Lecturer and researcher at LUCAS, specialized in Memory Studies with the focus on the Kurdistan Region. Her background in Literary Studies and Middle Eastern Studies informs her research. Dr. Majid earned her PhD from Leiden University in 2022 and published her…

For each university unit, the ICT Shared Service Centre (ISSC) has an appointed ICT contact person responsible for applying for ICT facilities for research, teaching and operational management.

James McAllister is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute for Philosophy.

Lukas Milevski is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Lucas da Costa Maciel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Anoma van der Veere is a researcher within the Leiden Asia Centre at Leiden University. He is based at the University of Osaka in Japan and writes about international collaboration and public policy in the fields of technology, education and sport. His research focuses on sport and education through…

Carina van den Hoven is Research Fellow at The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), Leiden University and Collaborateur Scientifique at Research Unit UMR 8546 AOrOc « Archéologie et philologie d’Orient et d’Occident » at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE/PSL), École Normale Supérieure…

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Max Lenssen is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University with a main interest in contemporary Arabic visual culture and literature. She has worked mainly on cities & urban imaginaries and memory & temporality.

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Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University.

Casper Wits is a University Lecturer in the Institute for Area Studies. His research focuses on postwar diplomatic and international history in East Asia, with a special interest in the development of Chinese and Japanse foreign policy and Sino-Japanese relations in this period. He also takes an interest…

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Hossam Ahmed is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and coordinator of the Arabic language courses in Leiden University. His research interests include (Arabic) computational linguistics, Minimalist Syntax, Digital Humanities, and Teaching Arabic as a foreign Language.…

Emi Yamamoto is skills lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Professor Saskia Jaszoltowski, the new Visiting Professor for Central European Studies at Leiden University joined students, colleagues and friends of Austrian Studies at Leiden for a lunch-time talk that introduced her exciting research to our community.

Simon van der Straten is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Jacqueline Hylkema is Assistant Professor of Cultural History at Leiden University College and Senior Scaliger Fellow at Leiden University Libraries’ Scaliger Institute. Her research focuses on forgery in early modern print culture, particularly in the Dutch Republic and Britain. Hylkema is currently…

Michaël Opgenhaffen is an assistant professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

Ae Ree Nam is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.