Catharine Diehl’s research concerns metaphysics and its relation to logic. Her dissertation, “Ontological Nihilism and Existential Commitment,” undertakes a systematic investigation of ontological nihilism, the view that it is not the case that individuals are part of the basic fabric of the world.…

Laura Migliori is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Thanja Lamberts is an assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Leiden Observatory. Her group focuses on computational astrochemistry to unravel which molecules can be formed efficiently in the dense regions of the interstellar medium. She is particularly interested in the chemistry…

The postdoc community committee represents the postdoctoral researchers at the Faculty of Archaeology. It serves as an interdisciplinary hub between the Faculty’s three Departments and the wider university, as well as with the national community of postdoc researchers in the Netherlands. The postdoc…

The Bachelor of Arts in International Studies provides students with the tools to investigate globalisation, and its regional effects, from a humanities perspective. They study these effects through the prism of four disciplinary perspectives: culture, history, politics and economics, coupled with in-depth…

From 2018-2025, researchers at our faculty conducted research within two themes of the Nederlands Sectorplan Rechtsgeleerdheid (information only available in Dutch): Institutions for Conflict Resolution and Empirical Legal Studies.

Sietse van Mierlo is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Philosophy.

Daniel Pantoja is a visiting PhD candidate at the Insitute for Philosophy.

Stephan Raaijmakers is a professor of Communicative AI at the Centre for Linguistics.

Zhaole Yang is a University Lecturer of Chinese language and language pedagogy at the Institute for Area Studies.

Marion Elenbaas is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Koenraad Schalm studies string theory and its connections to models of particle physics and cosmology in particular.

Jörg Meyer investigates energy conversion at interfaces at the atomic scale. Starting from the Schrödinger equation, he develops and employs computer simulation techniques.

External relations For external partners, collaboration with Leiden Law School offers a unique opportunity to jointly develop knowledge, address societal issues and support talented future legal scholars and professionals. The faculty has a rich academic tradition, a dynamic research climate and a network…

PhD candidate of ACPA/ docARTES programme.

Jannemieke Ouwerkerk is Professor of European Criminal Law at Leiden Law School's Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Siamak is a researcher at the Acadamy of Creative and Performing Arts.

Jelena Prokic is an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). Since September 2024, Jelena Prokic has also been the Head of the Digital Humanities and AI Lab at the Faculty of H…

Jenny Audring is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Alex Reuneker is an Assistant Professor (UD) in Linguistics at Leiden University. His PhD concerned conditionals ('if-then sentences') in Cognitive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics — topics he continues to research this day. He also studies factors in Dutch verb-spelling errors. He teaches courses…

Rint Sybesma is a professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

Jan Sleutels is a Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

Claartje Levelt is a Professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

The goal of Geert-Jan Kroes is to achieve the ability to predict the outcome of dissociative chemisorption reactions of small molecules on transition metal surfaces. This requires an accurate modeling of the molecule-metal surface interaction and of the reaction dynamics, including energy dissipatio…

Ronny Boogaart is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He is a Dutch language scholar and linguist. His expertise is the grammar of Dutch, as well as how people strategically use and misuse language to achieve their goals. Together with two colleagues, he recently published…

The central question of my research is: Which syntactic properties do all languages have in common, which properties are variable and which associations are there between these syntactic variables? The goal of this research is to contribute to a theory of natural language that explains the range and…

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

Yiya Chen is a Professor of Phonetics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She studies the sounds of languages with an interdisciplinary approach. The broad goal of her research is to understand the language structures and cognitive mechanisms that underlie speech and speech communication.…

Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of smaller, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia, and she studies the history and culture of the populations…