Frank Schaftenaar (M.Sc.) is a PhD student at the Division of Biopharmaceutics.

Erik Danen (Ph.D) is Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety.

Joanne van der Leun is Professor of Criminology.

Caroline S. Archambault (Anthropology PhD, Brown University, 2007) is an Assistant Professor at LUC. Her current research focuses on human rights, international development, and demography in sub-Saharan Africa. Topics of interest include: natural resource management, education, pastoralism, urban informal…

Joost Beltman is assistant professor at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety.

Tessa Vergroesen is a PhD student at the Institute of Biology Leiden. In the Mathematical Biology group she is working on the experimental side of the research projects on angiogenesis, investigating effects of modifications of the extracellular matrix on in vitro and in vivo structures of new blood…

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad.

Judi Mesman (1974) has been a professor at Leiden University since 2009 and focuses on the study of social (in)justice with special attention to intergenerational issues at individual and institutional levels. Since 2024, she has also been appointed Distinguished Professor of Social Responsibility and…

Floris Keehnen is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

My research is focused on the host-pathogen interplay during infection in Mycobacterium avium and comparing with better studied mycobacterial pathogens like M. tuberculosis and M. marinum. My work addresses two crucial processes in mycobacterial pathogenesis: the intracellular trafficking inside macrophages…

Our research is aimed at understanding the factors involved in creating cell wall-deficient cells. We investigate the bacterial stress responses to identify the mechanism and genomic alterations behind switching between the walled to wall-less state. With this project, we contribute towards novel treatment…

I am associate professor Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology at the Institute of Biology (IBL). I am interested in the several aspects related to the growth and development of the filamentous fungi. These include elucidation of molecular mechanisms related to the transcriptional regulation of…

Serkan Aslan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Division of Drug Discovery and Safety (DDS) since November 2022. I obtained my BSc degree from Bogazici University in Molecular Biology & Genetics, then had my MSc degree from Ludwig Maximilian University in Cellular & Molecular Biology with a specialization…

Moritz Jesse holds a Jean Monnet Chair at the Europa Institute Leiden.

Dr.(mult.) Andrew DJ Shield is Assistant Professor of Migration History, and affiliated with the interdisciplinary research project “Social Citizenship and Migration.” He is the chair of Leiden’s LGBT+ Network. Shield specializes in sexuality, race, and diversity in Europe since 1945. He holds two…

Francesco Walker has a Masters Degree in cognitive neuropsychology from VU Amsterdam. In 2015, he developed a proposal to study the link between eye-movement behaviour and visitor perceptions of art in a museum setting. The resulting collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam produced the first…

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…

Mette is currently a PhD researcher in the ERC project Rural Riches, The bottom-up development of Post-Roman Northwestern Europe (450-640).

I am associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. I work on a variety of cyber security topics, ranging from security risk management and threat modeling to mobile security and secure software development. My main goal is to make organisations more secure by improving their…

Nadia Bouras is a historian with a specialization in the history of Moroccan migration. Holding a PhD in history from Leiden University, she serves as an assistent professor in social and migration history at the same institution. Bouras is closely affiliated with NIMAR, the Netherlands Institute in…

Karwan Fatah-Black (1981) is assistant professor at the department of Social and Economic History of Leiden University. His project, titled ‘Paths through slavery’ runs from the spring of 2016 to the fall of 2019.

My research focusses on the development and application of genetically engineered model systems, including mouse models of (BRCA1-associated) breast cancer and human induced pluripotent stem cell models for chemical hazard characterization. In my current position, I combine these research interests…

Bas ter Braak is postdoctoral researcher at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety.

Azra Say-Ötün is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Samatar (Sam) Ahmed Botan is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Walter Gam Nkwi is Assistant Professor at the Institute for History.

Marie Kolbenstetter is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.