As a PhD candidate, your research demands precision, creativity, and intense focus. Yet, navigating people—supervisors, promotors, co-authors, committee members—can feel more complex than navigating your dataset or experiment. Maybe you’ve held back from raising a concern in a meeting. Or avoided negotiating…

Three Leiden researchers have been awarded a Vici grant by the Dutch Research Council. The funding of up to 1.5 million euros supports ‘talented, adventurous and pioneering researchers’. A total of 39 projects at Dutch institutions will receive a grant.

Emma Devereux is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Liesbeth works as of 2019 as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. Before joining the Department, she worked as a Researcher/Research Fellow at Nivel (2008-2012 & 2015-2018); UMC Utrecht (2016); OLVG (2017-2018); and King’s College London, Dept of Palliative…

Martin is part of the ecotoxicology group, where he is working on the implementation of eDNA in ecotoxicological research as both a tool to study community effects, as well as a predictive tool to gain insight in the state of a community.

Michael F. Meffert is a lecturer in Political Psychology and Political Communication at the Institute of Political Science.

Josh Robison is assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science.

Vincent Niochet is a PhD candidate in Human Origins funded by an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant.