475 search results for “adaptive” in the Staff website
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How Armed Groups Adapt: Illicit Financing and Counterterrorism Sanctions
Lecture
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Adapt or perish – traits identified that help plants survive
PhD candidate Jianhong Zhou aimed to better understand whether and how plant species adapt to environmental changes. She developed two databases that she used to analyze how easily or difficultly plants adapt to changing conditions. Zhou defended her PhD thesis on 4 September.
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Coffee with Gert & Niels: 'Growth and adaptability in challenging times'
Twice a year, Gert Renkema, Head of Financial and Economic Affairs at FGGA, provides us with an update on the faculty’s finances. This time, he sits down with Niels Laurens, Director of Operations, over a cup of coffee and tea to share the results of the past year and the financial outlook.
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How can we adapt our laws to new technology?
There were no bitcoins or artificial intelligence when our civil code was compiled. This could cause problems.
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Blog - Stress, anxiety and adapting to uncertainty in everyday life
Our world may seem unpredictable and uncertain, especially when others are involved. When interacting with others, we cannot know for sure what they may be thinking or planning to do, but we do a good job guessing. This may not be so easy for everyone…
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Charlotte BoinFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Dineke TigelaarICLON
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Manel van KesselICLON
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Adapting to climate change: mutation enables flour beetles to speed up their development
Leiden biologists have found a mutation in flour beetles that allows them to speed up their development. The study has been published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
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Shelly BieselFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Adapting to salinity: Dutch mosquitos do take it with a grain of salt
Dutch mosquitos are more resilient to saltwater than previously thought. Environmental scientist Sam Boerlijst discovered this during his PhD research at the Hortus botanicus. This knowledge is crucial for understanding how mosquito-borne disease transmission might change in the future.
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…
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Heritage expert Gül Aktürk Hauser investigates climate change adaptation of cultural heritage
Recently, Dr Gül Aktürk Hauser took up the position as Assistant Professor at the department of Heritage and Society. Originally an architect, she got caught up in the study of historical vernacular buildings in northeastern Turkey. Now her focus lies on the impact of climate change on cultural heri…
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Education Programmes evaluated very highly by students, despite COVID-19 Adaptations
Evaluations of a most challenging year to both staff and students in terms of teaching and education support have turned out remarkably well. Although we had to switch to online education almost overnight, we pulled it off!
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Tessa MearnsICLON
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Navigating a New Culture as a PhD candidate
Personal development, Study support
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Maintaining Self While Adapting: Chinese Foreign Language Teachers’ Identity Development in an Intercultural Context
PhD defence
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Anouk RoelingFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Can intelligence services remain secret in democratic societies?
Damien Van Puyvelde discusses his new book on France’s foreign intelligence service, the DGSE, and explores secrecy, cyber threats and democratic accountability in international media.
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Bob van de Water - Active learning spaces
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Nadira SaabICLON
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Roeland van der RijstICLON
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Bernardo Reis dos SantosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Helena Landwehr
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series
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King Willem-Alexander and Emperor Naruhito of Japan to visit Leiden University
Emperor Naruhito and King Willem-Alexander will visit Leiden University on Thursday 18 June.
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Shaping the future of international relations and diplomacy
From peace missions and military intervention to climate adaptation and geopolitical competition, students of the Advanced MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) showcased the results of two years of intensive research at the annual Thesis Symposium on 22 May 2026.
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Formative & summative assessments
Depending on its purpose, assessment can support ongoing learning, provide final evaluations, or help students reflect on their own progress.
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Werkplek
Leiden University ensures a pleasant and safe working environment, whether you are on campus or working from home. Here you will find practical information about accommodation and facilities, as well as answers to questions such as: How do I arrange an ergonomically responsible workplace at home? Where…
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‘Rejection is part of the process, what matters is what you do with it’
On Monday, 15 June, the session ‘Failing Forward – Turning Rejection into Future Opportunities’ will take place, focusing on open conversations about rejection, resilience, and learning in academic life. Ahead of the session, organiser Billy Tsagkroni and speaker Eveline Crone share their perspectives…
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Esther de VrindICLON
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Roberto ArcieroFaculty of Archaeology
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Grants for AI in healthcare, computing with light and climate-resilient cities
Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognised through grants, prizes and other awards. We highlight some of these achievements below.
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Career planning for PhD Candidates and Postdocs
Career development, Transferable skills
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Planning an event
If you’re planning to organise an event within the university, the information on this page will help you get started.
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Boxing for Researchers
Personal development
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Planning an event
If you’re planning to organise an event within the university, the information on this page will help you get started.
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The PhD Presentation Skills Lab
Communication, Research, Transferable skills
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Vision on education
With the Learning@LeidenUniversity vision, Leiden University leads the way in education, training students to become academic professionals and engaged citizens. Here you will find information on the eight ambitions that form the basis of the curriculum, as well as answers to questions such as: How…
- Artist-in-residence Stefan Hoffmann working on screen print in C0 corridor
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Registration now open for the Basic University Didactics (BUD) trajectory
Education
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CWTS and OpenAIRE strengthen collaboration
CWTS and OpenAIRE are delighted to announce the next steps we have agreed to take to deepen our relationship and strengthen our collaboration.
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Three PhD defences in one day on religious coexistence in Ghana
Last Tuesday was a special day: three researchers defended their PhD dissertations in succession as part of the same project. Martin Luther Darko, Kauthar Khamis and Rashida Adum-Atta investigated how people of different religions coexist in Madina in Ghana.
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Leiden Leadership Lunch: COVID-crisis or COVID-opportunity?
Building on the idea to “never waste a good crisis” the Leiden Leadership Centre reflected on what we can learn from the COVID-crisis and what kind of leadership opportunities we can identify during the Leiden Leadership Lunch of Friday 12 March. The luncht was the first of a three-part series of events…