Dr van Oostrum is an Assistant Professor of Company Law at the Department of Company Law and Financial Law (Institute of Private Law).

Jacques J.M. van Dongen is professor of Medical Immunology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Based on his 35-year experience in Medical Immunology at Erasmus MC, he was recruited to LUMC in 2016 to build an LUMC-wide immune monitoring program. He coordinated 7 European research networks in…

Swantje Völler is assistant professor at the Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology and the Division of BioTherapeutics

Prof. Dr. Micha Drukker is a professor of Stem Cell Biology, Models and Regenerative medicine at the Division Cell Systems and Drug Safety.

Skip Thijssen is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Leiden University, specializing in energy-efficient GPU computing. His research focuses on analyzing and optimizing power consumption in high-performance computing applications. He obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Amsterdam (UvA)…

Michael Lew is the co-head of the LIACS Computer Systems, Imagery and Media Research cluster, which is one of the two main research groups at the Computer Science department at Leiden University.

Julie Reynders has worked as a PhD candidate at the Institute of Private Law since 1 September 2021.

Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have successfully used stem cell gene therapy to treat a baby with the severe congenital immune disorder SCID. An important milestone: it is the first time stem cell gene therapy of Dutch origin has been administered to a patient, and also…

He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, community support officer Dennis Perdok (49) is leaving this role. Last week he bid farewell to the police and to his job in Leiden’s city centre.

The university is responsible for the safety of over 40,000 people who work, study and visit around 50 buildings in Leiden and The Hague. Find out which security measures are changing and what this means for you.

Ariëlle Reitsema is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. In the NWO-funded project

Matthijs Westera is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Prof. Dr. Miranda van Eck is professor of Cardiovascular and metabolic therapeutics at the Division of BioTherapeutics, and Programme Director for the MSc programme of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Bob van de Water is head of the Cancer Therapeutics and Drug Safety group at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety.

Vanessa Mak has been Professor of Civil Law at the Institute of Private law since 1 October 2020.

Yiya Chen is a Professor of Phonetics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She studies the sounds of languages with an interdisciplinary approach. The broad goal of her research is to understand the language structures and cognitive mechanisms that underlie speech and speech communication.…

Michael Richardson is a British citizen who carries out research in developmental biology. He was appointed in 2000 to the van der Leeuw chair of evolutionary developmental biology at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His active research focus is: fundamental developmental biology (the evolutionary…

Soils house an overwhelming abundance and diversity of living (micro)organisms. In our research we examine how plants influence the soil they grow in, and how these changes influence other plants that grow later in the soil, and the insects on those plants. We study the mechanisms of these aboveground-belowground…

Prof. Elizabeth de Lange has been trained as a chemist, with a specialization in Biophysical Chemistry (Groningen University, The Netherlands). She obtained her PhD in Pharmacology (Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research (LACDR), Leiden University, The Netherlands). She currently is the Principal…

Frans Willem Korsten is a Professor Literature, Culture and Law at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

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Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies / Global History at the Leiden University Institute for History.

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Latin America matters! With its rich history, culture, its impressive resilience and creative innovation in the face of such a diverse array of challenges, Latin America can indeed show the way forward inspiring for positive change. Working together with Latin American institutions, our researchers…

How do you deal with bullying? How can you motivate young people? At the NeurolabNL symposium a multidisciplinary research team launched an interactive book for teachers and youth workers. This digital book offers the latest insights and plenty of useful tips and advice. Children’s Ombudsman Margrite…

From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.