Quentin Bourgeois is an Associate Professor in European Prehistory at the Faculty of Archaeology. He is also Head of the Department of World Archaeology.

Johanna (Joke) Meijer is professor and head of the section Neurophysiology, within the department of Cell and Chemical Biology. Her research primarily focuses on unravelling the mechanisms that regulate and synchronise the biological clock, both through external and internal factors. Additionally, she…

Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor Film, Literary and Media Studies at Leiden University, and research fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Mink W. van IJzendoorn is a PhD candidate and is involved in teaching at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. He studies cycles of socioeconomic innovation and decline across the Mediterranean world. Mink’s research revolves around premodern pottery, most notably transport amphorae. Thematically, he…

Ernst van Alphen is a professor emeritus of of Literary Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Jet Bussemaker (1961) is professor Policy, science and societal Impact, in particular in health care, at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Faculty Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) at Leiden University. With her interdisciplinary education and research activities Jet Bussemaker addresses…

Ed J. Kuijper is currently the head of the Experimental Microbiology and the Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile at the Leiden University Medical Centre and the Centre for Infectious Disease Control of the National Institute of Public Health. Since 2015, his department also hosts the 'National…

Matthias van Osch is professor in Radiology, experimental cerebrovascular imaging and he is vice-director of the C.J. Gorter Center for high field MRI. in 2016 he was awarded with the innovational research incentives scheme VICI “Breaking through spatial, temporal and physiological boundaries in brain…

Olaf Dekkers is professor internal medicine, chair of the scientific board internal medicine at LUMC and visiting professor at the department clinical epidemiology in Aarhus, Denmark.

Ingrid Meulenbelt is professor of molecular biology of Osteoarthritis (OA) and head of the OA research group within the section Molecular Epidemiology and the department of Biomedical Data Sciences. She is vice-chair of the LUMC VENI committee and member of the executive body of education of the master…

Rik Lettany is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

Dr Marike van Aerde is Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department. Her research focuses on trade routes and exchange networks spanning from ancient Egypt to the 1st-millennium Indian Ocean. Her work includes ceramics and glass analyses, petroglyphic documentation, and methodological applications…

Robert J.M. Klautz, MD, PhD, is full professor and chair of the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center. Apart from that he is Member of the Supervisory Board of the ‘Westfries Gasthuis’ and ‘Waterland Ziekenhuis’, Chairman of the Consilium, member of the General Medical…

Marcel IJsselstijn is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Ton Rabelink is Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrologist at the LUMC. Here, he also heads the department of Internal Medicine. He is Leiden Node Director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW and figurehead of the theme Regenerative Medicine within the Dutch National Science…

Rudolf W. Poolman is professor of orthopaedic surgery by special appointment in Healthcare Evaluation in the LUMC and OLVG Amsterdam.

This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

I am an internist-endocrinologist in the Department of Internal Medicine and Professor of Diabetology, in particular the neuro-endocrine regulation of diabetes and overweight.

Sandra van Dijk is Assistant Professor at the unit Health, Medical and Neuropsychology of the Institute of Psychology. Her research focuses predominantly on chronic diseases and how individuals cope with such a condition.

I am a Professor at Leiden University, interested in the development of the human niche, with a research focus on Neanderthals and other (earlier) Eurasian hominins. Studying timescales of thousands to millions of years, prehistoric archaeology has the potential to provide a long-term perspective on…

Frans Theuws is Professor of Medieval Archaeology of Europe. He is the Principle investigator of the ERC funded project Rural Riches.

Arts and culture

The organ in the Academy Building is 25 years old. University organist Jan Verschuren and tuner Bert Crama talk about the long history of university organs, improvising with short cortèges and their love for this organ.

Alp Yenen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He works primarily on the political history of modern Turkey and the Middle East. He is specialized on the turn of the 20th century, First World War, Interwar period, and the Cold War period. He also comments and…

Roos van Oosten is an assistant professor in Medieval and Urban Archaeology at Leiden University. She has a broad research interest reflected in numerous publications on diverse topics: sanitation management, the textile industry, cemeteries and burial practices, historical cooking, ceramics and environmental…

Henk te Velde is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Dutch History. As professor he focuses on Dutch (and Western European) History from the late 18th century to the present, in particular political history and its spillover into contemporary politics. His books cover the history of liberalism…

Marga Sikkema-de Jong is Professor of Digital Education and Child Development at Leiden University. Marga combines academic expertise in education and child development with practical experience in (special) primary education. She earned her master’s degree in Education and Child Studies at Leiden University…