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Student Assistant for the Intelligence Research Group at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs Announcement - 19 June 2024
Human resources

Three Student mentors – MSc Crisis and Security Management (main, Intelligence and Cyber) Announcement - 3 June 2024
Organisation, Human resources

Should intelligence services have a ‘licence to kill’? News - 19 May 2022
The ‘University of the Netherlands’ is a series of lectures in which academics address topics based on their expertise. In the latest instalment, cultural historian Simon Willmetts discusses how intelligence services operate and what has changed since 9/11.

Hybrid Intelligence: Making the unknown visible for Humans and AI News - 16 May 2022
A consortium made up of Leiden University (Institute of Public Administration/Digitalisation & Public Policy, Bram Klievink, Sarah Giest, Bart Schermer), VU (Professor Fabio Massacci), TU Delft, TNO, and Thales has been awarded a NWO grant of 1.5 million euros. This research project looks into the ‘metadata…

Questions for Willemijn Aerdts about the Minor Intelligence Studies News - 13 April 2021
You’re about to start your minor at Leiden University. Make sure you are well prepared and get your studies off to a good start.

Kluitersprijs for excellent students Minor Intelligence Studies News - 17 July 2021
Every year, the ‘Kluitersprijs’ is awarded to students who achieve excellent results in the minor Intelligence Studies.

CLAIRE wins prestigious Artificial Intelligence prize News - 7 October 2021
AI networks CLAIRE and ELLIS have jointly won the prestigious German Artificial Intelligence prize. The WELT newspaper awarded the prize, worth 100,000 euros, last week in Berlin. The AI Prize is an innovation award for pioneering achievements in AI research and development.

Artificial intelligence helps in the search for new antibiotics News - 14 January 2021
With the search for new antibiotics becoming increasingly urgent, artificial intelligence offers valuable help. Smart software developed by Leiden PhD candidate Alexander Kloosterman searched genomes of bacteria and found clusters of DNA that code for proteins that have an antibiotic effect. ‘This new…

Mark de Rooij Professor Artificial Intelligence and Data Theory
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery News - 23 May 2023
There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those molecules? Professor of AI and Medicinal Chemistry, Gerard van Westen: ‘I’m going to use artificial intelligence as the co-pilot to make an automated search.’…

Hague TIX ‘To build a European threat intelligence community’ News - 24 May 2023
The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) is happening on 12 June 2023. Monica Kaminska, Assistant Professor of International Security and Technology at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, is one of the organisers of this unique conference ‘which brings together cyber threat intelligence…

Kluitersprijs for excellent students Minor Intelligence Studies 2021- 2022 News - 18 May 2022
The ‘Kluitersprijs’ is awarded to students who achieve excellent results in the minor Intelligence Studies every year.

Call for volunteers: Artificial intelligence and Art exhibition Announcement - 6 September 2022
Education

Director of the MIVD General Swillens visits ISGA to talk about intelligence cooperation News - 11 January 2023
On 15 December, Director of the MIVD General Jan Swillens, visited the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) to give a lecture on international intelligence cooperation together with ISGA/NLDA researcher Pepijn Tuinier. This event, co-organised by the Intelligence and Security Group and the…

Artificial intelligence and clay tablets: not yet a perfect match News - 10 October 2023
Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are popping up more and more often about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for researching documents in the oldest scripts. Are we better off leaving the deciphering of ancient texts to computers from now…

LUMC uses artificial intelligence to calculate lung damage in coronavirus patients News - 8 March 2021
With the aid of artificial intelligence (AI), care professionals at the LUMC (Leiden University Medical Center) are able to calculate quickly and accurately whether a coronavirus patient has suffered serious lung damage. They do this by putting a CT scan through the AI software of the CAD4COVID-CT p…

Turning senses into media: can we teach artificial intelligence to perceive? News - 22 June 2022
Humans perceive the world through different senses: we see, feel, hear, taste and smell. The different senses with which we perceive are multiple channels of information, also known as multimodal. Does this mean that what we perceive can be seen as multimedia?

New Special Chair Bas Rietjens with focus on intelligence in conflict situations News - 1 February 2022
Prof. dr. ir. Bas Rietjens of the Dutch Defense Academy (NLDA) has been appointed Professor by special appointment Intelligence in War and Conflict at Leiden University’s Institute for Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). The appointment of Rietjens is the result of a more intensive collaboration between…

3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’ News - 4 October 2022
‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3 October University lecture in the Van der Werfpark. In the full marquee, he gets a laugh with this suggestion that artificial intelligence is comparable…