Op 3 september 2019 verdedigde Ilektra Antonaki haar proefschrift 'Privatisations and golden shares: Bridging the gap between the State and the market in the area of free movement of capital in the EU'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. S.C.G. Van den Bogaert.

Protonentherapie is een nieuwe manier om kanker te behandelen waarbij de bestralingsdoses preciezer worden afgegeven. Dit zorgt voor minder schade aan omliggend weefsel en minder bijwerkingen. Prof. dr. Marco van Vulpen is medisch directeur van HollandPTC in Delft waar wordt onderzocht wat de maatschappelijke…

Yearly, the LIBC organizes a public event to share scientific research in the field of brain & cognition These public days are organized in collaboration with the municipality of leiden in the City Auditorium.

Webinar with Q&A

Humans share meaning through language. Over time, repeated interactions have shaped languages into forms that match our cognitive preferences, making them structured, expressive, easy to learn, and ultimately, meaningful.

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

Dr. Irma Mosquera Valderrama onderzoekt in haar ERC-project de rol van de OESO (Organisatie voor Economische Samenwerking en Ontwikkeling) en de EU bij de totstandkoming van internationale fiscale wetgeving en streeft ernaar voorwaarden te scheppen waaronder zowel ontwikkelde landen als ontwikkelingslanden…

The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

Metal production is not only energy-intensive and a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but is also associated with other impacts affecting human health and ecosystems.

Het Europa Instituut van de Universiteit Leiden is één van de oudste academische instellingen gespecialiseerd in het recht van de Europese Unie en het Europees Verdrag inzake de Rechten van de Mens.

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

The solar system was formed approximately 4.56 billion years ago. Despite the numerous theories that have been developed over the years, the formation and evolution of the solar system still remain unclear.

De staf van het Europa Instituut bezit een uitgebreide expertise omtrent het recht van de Europese Unie en de Europese bescherming van de mensenrechten in het algemeen.

eLaw onderzoekt de rol van het recht in de informatiemaatschappij: hoe kan het recht bijdragen aan een goede werking van informatie- en communicatietechnologie, en het gebruik ervan door burgers, bedrijven en overheden?

Despite substantial progress in understanding tuberculosis (TB), the eradication of the TB epidemic is still far from reach.

The Academic Language Center is online and expanding!

Grensverleggend geschiedenis leren.

The Belgian-Dutch Bookbindings Society and the Consortium for European Research Libraries cordially invite anyone with an interest in bookbindings to attend.

Read all about the experiences of our students who followed one of the Academic Language Center's (online) courses in the past semester.

Dit was het programma van De Kennisboomgaard 2025:

Recently, a new edition of the ELS bulletin was sent out. Furthermore, we are thrilled to share the Midterm Report of the ELS lab @Leiden with you!

The space between the stars isn't simply a void; it also contains substances such as methanol and carbon dioxide. So far, chemical theories have been unable to explain how these substances originate under circumstances that should make it impossible. Fedor Goumans has been awarded a Veni subsidy to…

In 2025 verzocht het Ministerie van Economische Zaken SEO Economisch Onderzoek en de Universiteit Leiden (Afdeling Ondernemingsrecht en Financieel recht), met betrokkenheid van het Europa Instituut, om een evaluatie van de Wet ongewenste zeggenschap telecommunicatie en een tussentijdse hoofdlijnenevaluatie…

On April 14 we will celebrate the launch of our Faculty action plan ‘diversity and inclusivity’ with a symposium. We will present the action plan and our colleague Professor Tomas Brage will be keynote speaker. He is the Director of Education at the Physics Institute of Lund University in Sweden and…

This one-day conference, organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), invites you to share your research ideas and results in practices of comparative medievalism in arts and culture. We therefore invite contributions of papers that analyse cultural representations of the…

This workshop aims at fostering and promoting the exchange of ideas on how to edit late antique and early medieval texts (mostly Latin texts, but without excluding possible extensions to the Greek field). Young scholars in particular are encouraged to present case-studies and share the editorial problems…

Van onderwijs tot een verrijkende ervaring

We are very excited to announce our Sustainability Series for 2023-2024. Each month an interactive workshop will be organised that discusses a specific theme of sustainability. Interested about sustainability? Do not hesitate to sign up to our events !

Kijk regelmatig op deze pagina voor meer informatie over het vergroten van de biodiversiteit aan de Universiteit Leiden.

A small insight into the annual study trip to Brussels of the advanced master programme Law and Digital Technologies.

The Fryske Akademy, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, the Professorship Multilingualism and Literacy of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the department of Frisian Studies of the University of Groningen, and the department Language, Technology…

Sinds de oprichting is LUC een college voor onderwijsontwikkeling en experimentatie. In de missie van het college wordt LUC beschreven als "een plek van innovatie op het gebied van didactiek, curriculumontwerp en studentwelzijn." Deze visie wordt toegepast via een studentgerichte benadering in het onderwijs…

The project

Participants in this course will learn to support student teachers and new colleagues in their professional development as teachers, with particular emphasis on the context of bilingual or international education, as in the ICLON World Teachers Programme (WTP).

What kinds of pan-European connections linked communities across early medieval Europe, and what social infrastructures allowed these networks to function beyond political, cultural and geographic boundaries?

Technology can drive peace and justice. Innovative solutions increasingly make use of new types of data, mobile technologies and social media. Big or small (data), high-tech or low-tech: the challenge is to maximise the benefits while minimising the risks that come with the so-called data revolution…

Join us in Canterbury and online on the 13th and 14th June for the eleventh annual MEMS Festival at the University of Kent. We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference. Deadline for abstracts, 4th of April.

De Nederlandse universiteiten geven open access vanaf 2019 een extra impuls door de pilot ‘You share, we take care’ te starten om in samenwerking met onderzoekers publicaties na zes maanden beschikbaar te maken.

De rectoren van de Nederlandse universiteiten stellen hun recente wetenschappelijke werk wereldwijd gratis online beschikbaar. Zo willen zij het goede voorbeeld geven aan alle onderzoekers in Nederland. Ook de Leidse rector Carel Stolker doet mee.

Op de LION/Sterrewacht nieuwjaarsborrel heeft prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp de 2016 Hendrik Casimir Prize uitgereikt aan natuurkundestudenten Andrea Peña (Leiden) en Jorrit Hortensius (Delft). The Casimir Research School deelt jaarlijks de Hendrik Casimir Prize uit aan de beste masterstudenten in (technische)…

Congres/symposium

Lees hoe je je aanmeldt voor de MSc International Organisation aan Universiteit Leiden – inclusief stappen via Studielink, documenten indienen en vervolgstappen.

For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

What is leadership? Can it be taught, and if so, how? The International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP) helps students find their own style, say ILLP graduate Marko Simovski and his former coach Annah Neve in an interview: 'It’s about you, discovering you.'

The combination of data science and sports is a hot topic. In a talk during the opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science, Professor Joost Kok explained what data analytics can teach us about sports.