Bacteria caught red-handed, deeply frozen just as they were about to cause Lyme’s disease. Ariane Briegel is wildly enthusiastic about the wonders she observes thanks to three elements: a freezing technique, a camera-equipped microscope, and AI. ‘It’s fascinating. Every single cell is different.’

For the first time in the 441-year history of Leiden University, students will be the keynote speakers at the opening of the new academic year. Their talks will focus on refugees.

The Dutch universities are conducting a joint campaign to promote open access: free access to academic and scientific publications. Many Leiden researchers support open access. Given that it involves a shift in the financing from the reader to the author, they point out the need for effective agreements…

Leiden University offers a wide range of English-taught bachelor's programmes. That's why our Open Day attracts many prospective students from abroad.

The Dutch universities will give Open Access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take care’ to make publications available after six months in collaboration with researchers.

On 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open science is the approach to science aimed at making scientific research accessible, reproducible, and freely available to people within and outside the academic…

Making sensitive data reusable through synthetic data generation

Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam is an assistant professor at the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She is also affiliated with the department of Psychiatry (Leiden University Medical Center) and part of the Knowledge Center for Anxiety & Stress…

Lange tijd wisten we ons thuis in een wereld die we meenden te hebben. Het bestaan in deze vertrouwde wereld vormde onze existentie, die we op een eigenlijke wijze op ons namen. Thans is de wereld echter niet meer wat hij was, en zijn we ook zelf niet meer wie we waren. ‘De wereld is weg’, zo dichtte…

Pam’s research focuses on the fundamental psychological processes involved in health behavior and health behavior change. She has specific interest in temporal dynamics of health behavior, habits, and sedentary behavior. In her current position, Pam focuses on interdisciplinary research, collaborating…

As a result of the current corona measures, attendance at the Opening of the Academic Year on 6 September will be restricted to a maximum of 75 persons. The ceremony can, however, be viewed online by taking part in a video wall.

Workshops, lectures

The Dutch universities, university medical centres and Research Council have reached an agreement with Elsevier Publishing on a national open science partnership. The partnership includes open access publishing and reading services for Elsevier journals and open science services for disseminating and…

The treasure houses of Leiden's University Library and Naturalis house wonderful historical collections with dried plants and botanical drawings. Tinde van Andel, extraordinary professor of History of botany and gardens, studies these collections.

On 14 May 2020, Pieter Rustenburg defended his thesis 'Een algemene normtheorie toegepast op open normen in het belastingrecht'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. A.O. Lubbers and Prof. J.L.M. Gribnau.

Leer meer over de Master Education and Child Studies tijdens de Online Master's Open Dagen van de Universiteit Leiden.

Dutch researchers will continue to have access to scientific articles published by Elsevier.

In a new report commissioned by Science Europe, CWTS and the Know Center review academic and grey literature to examine how open science practices contribute to research culture.

Two Leiden projects have been awarded Open Science NL funding to make science more accessible to academia and the world outside. The projects will strengthen the open science infrastructure.

Thousands of curious students and parents are visiting the Open Day on 5 March. How do they get a good idea of the study programmes and the city?

Open Science verandert de manier waarop onderzoek wordt gedeeld en wordt samengewerkt. Anna van ’t Veer won een award voor haar Open Science-activiteiten.

In de maanden maart, april en mei organiseerde het programma Transparantie in Informatie, van de ministeries van Economische Zaken en Klimaat (EZK) en Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit (LNV), gesprekken over de veranderopgave naar een Open Departement. De sessies hadden als doel om een eerlijk en…

On 25 February more than 6,500 prospective students will visit the Open Day to learn more about programmes in Leiden and The Hague and to get a taste of student life. Have you signed up yet? Five golden tips to make your Open Day a success.

Jan N. van Rijn works in the computer science department (LIACS) and co-leads the Automated Design of Algorithms group (ADA).

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands is being flooded with applications for information under the Dutch Public Access to Government Information Act (WOB) and according to Minister Hugo de Jonge is unable to provide the information on time. News programme Nieuwsuur has been waiting…

Research project ‘Quantification, Administrative Capacity, and Democracy (QUAD)’ has a vacancy for a postdoc.

The latest scientific articles by the Rectores Magnifici of Dutch universities will soon be freely available online. They aim to set a good example to researchers in the Netherlands. Carel Stolker from Leiden University is one such Rector.

Two books that recently appeared in the Debates on Islam and Society series at Leiden University Press are now available in Open Access through the Knowledge Unlatched initiative.

Dr. Andrea Bartolucci is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University, where he teaches Crisis and Risk Communication, the Case Study Fukushima, and the elective Humanitarian Response to Disaster and Emergencies (HRDE).

Gert-Jan Lelieveld graduated as a Research Master in Social and Organizational Psychology at Leiden University in 2008. In 2013, he successfully defended his dissertation on the interpersonal effects of emotions in negotiations. Currently, he works as an Associate Professor at the department of Social,…

Elise Dusseldorp is Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research.

Marret Noordewier is an Associate professor at the unit of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology. She’s also Head of Research at the Knowledge Centre Psychology and Economic Behaviour (KCPEG).

Julian Karch is Assistant Professor (UD) at the unit Methodology & Statistics of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. His main research interests are the adaptation and application of statistical learning methods to the challenges of psychological data analysis. He teaches statistical courses…

Crucial information about research, funding or how university rankings are created is often not freely accessible. The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information calls for such information to be made open. Professor Ludo Waltman is one of its initiators. What needs to change?