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• ‘Science is always the foundation for finding the best treatment, but we should broaden our scope' News - 14 August 2024

  As of 1 August, Anika Bexkens has been appointed Professor of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Her research focuses on the optimal application of scientific knowledge in practice. ‘Scientists and practitioners often speak past each other.’

• Back to the scanner: brain science in times of corona News - 16 May 2021

  For their research many neuropsychologists use the brain scanners at the LUMC. At the start of the pandemic, the rules for visiting the hospital became stricter and a large amount of psychology research looked as though it would fall through. Thanks to good protocols the researchers can now pick up…

• Inequality in medical science: ‘We need to better understand the flexibility of the female brain’ News - 19 November 2025

  During a well-attended Studium Generale lecture at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Professor Ellen de Bruijn demonstrated how hormonal fluctuations influence the female brain. 'We urgently need more attention for the mental health of girls and women during transitional periods.'

• Between Power and Public Opinion: State Reform in Nepal News - 8 April 2025

  On 24 April 2025, political scientist Pawan Kumar Sen will defend his PhD dissertation, "Transforming Nepal’s Political System: Party Positions and Public Opinion (2004-2012)," at Leiden University. His research examines how Nepal’s major political parties navigated key state restructuring reforms—republicanism,…

• Interview Tom Theuns in IQ Magazine: “NATO Resembles a House of Cards” News - 1 April 2025

  The rise of authoritarianism, the strengthening of the radical right, and the role of the EU in defending democracy—these are just a few of the issues causing concern today. Is the EU capable of defending democratic values within the Union and beyond its borders? In an interview from the Lithuanian…

• Leïla Gfeller and Tobias van Brandwijk win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2021 News - 25 October 2021

  2021, again, sees a rich harvest of bachelor theses in Political Science. Students have been tackling fascinating subjects—ranging from European solidarity in the COVID-19 crisis to the representation of women in democratically elected parliaments—and crowning their research projects with interesting,…

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  Beibei Yuan Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  b.yuan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Vici grant for Anouk de Koning for research on Prototyping Welfare in Europe News - 15 March 2022

  Leiden's cultural anthropologist Anouk de Koning is receiving a Vici research grant for her project ‘Prototyping Welfare in Europe: Experiments in State and Society’ to study welfare experiments in four countries and to examine what they tell us about the futures of European welfare states.

• Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March 2023 News - 27 February 2023

  The Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March seeks to inspire conversations around new state-citizen relations in the social domain. At this conference, international researchers discuss core questions at the heart of the new NWA Crafting Resilience project.

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  Josh Robison Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.a.robison@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8005071

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  Constance Maly PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.f.m.maly@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anouk van Vliet Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.l.van.vliet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Faizal Rianto PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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

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  Neeltje Blankenstein Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.e.blankenstein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hannah Kuhn Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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

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  Hanjo Boekhout Visiting researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  h.d.boekhout@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bjørn Peare Bartholdy PhD candidate / guest

  b.p.bartholdy@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277843

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  Sabine van der Asdonk Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.van.der.asdonk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275438

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  Robert-Jan de Rooij Guestworker

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.j.b.de.rooij@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Chenxiao Zhao

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  Josi Marschall

• NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience News - 18 March 2022

  A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study social interventions in eight Dutch cities in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.

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  Vincent Niochet PhD candidate

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

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  Marie Schwed Shenker PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.schwed.shenker@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marijn Nagtzaam Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.a.m.nagtzaam@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Matthijs van Leeuwen Professor / Director of Education

  m.van.leeuwen@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277048

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  Joop van Holsteijn Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  holsteyn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Aske Plaat Professor

  a.plaat@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277065

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  Tycho Jongenelen PhD candidate

  t.jongenelen@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nicola Defour PhD candidate

  n.u.thome@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274395

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  Joost Visser Professor

  j.m.w.visser@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Science comes to life in children's books written by students News - 10 February 2026

  In the Honours College course 'From Research to Children's Books', students learned how to translate scientific insights into accessible language. This also included writing their own stories for children. After the solitary process of writing and editing, it was time to put their skills into practi…

• questionnaires: psychology students present their research at the Science Day 2025 News - 19 June 2025

  How do you measure over-protective parenting? Why are girls more likely to develop anxiety disorders? And do the social skills of therapists really make a difference in treatment outcomes?

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  Federico De Musso Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.de.musso@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• ERC Starting Grant for research on Climate citizenship News - 5 September 2024

  "Climate citizenship” explores how adapting environments to climate change can change the way people interact with each other and with government. It focuses on nature-based or 'green' climate infrastructure projects that make use of natural entities or dynamics. With an ERC grant, anthropologist Andrew…

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  Willem Otterspeer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.otterspeer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Just to be sure... At any cost? News - 1 May 2024

  Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as political philosopher Josette Daemen has done, you realise that security sometimes comes at the expense of other important goods, such as freedom and equality.…

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  Amy Verdun Guest professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.c.verdun@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Matthew di Giuseppe Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.r.di.giuseppe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Daniel Thomas Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  d.c.thomas@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271263

• Political scientist Juan Masullo awarded Elise Mathilde Fund/LUF grant for research on public attitudes towards the mafia News - 14 July 2022

  Juan Masullo (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) receives a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund/Leiden University Fund to conduct his research project ‘Forging an Anti-Mafia Culture: Observational and Experimental Evidence from Italy’. Masullo aims to find out what ordinary Italians think…

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  Luuk de Ligt Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.de.ligt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272669

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  Dirk van der Hoeven Assistant professor

  d.van.der.hoeven@math.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277146

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  Jonathan Phillips Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.p.phillips@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Stefan Cetkovic Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.cetkovic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Cor Veenman Postdoc / guest

  c.j.veenman@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275772

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  Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco Assistant professor

  f.m.plaza.del.arco@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Read the three most downloaded papers by CADS researchers News - 25 March 2024

  Three of our researchers have been awarded a certificate for receiving enough downloads to be in the top 10% of papers in 2022

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  Aleksandrina Skvortsova Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.skvortsova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727