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Our main research interest is to understand the underlying mechanisms of plant protection against (a)biotic stresses mediated by microorganisms. Our group is specialized in the development of new multidisciplinary approaches to systematically correlate microbial genes and biosynthetic gene clusters…

Rint Sybesma is a professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

Jos Raaijmakers is Head of Department of the Microbial Ecology Department at NIOO KNAW and collaborates on various projects with the Institute of Biology Leiden.

My main research interest is to understand how species interactions influence the structure and functioning of plant-microbial communities. I got my PhD from Leiden University in the Institute of Environmental Sciences. My previous work has focused on symbiosis between plants and mycorrhizal fungi,…

Jan N. van Rijn holds a tenured position as assistant professor at Leiden University, where he works in the computer science department (LIACS) and Automated Design of Algorithms cluster (ADA). His research interests include trustworthy artificial intelligence, automated machine learning (AutoML) and…

Leiden University, along with other Dutch universities, it taking legal action against the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in response to its decision to cut funding for starter and incentive grants.

The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.

Kathleen Brown is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Maartje van Diest is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Michael Meyer is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Yee Man is a PhD candidate at the Translational Data Science & AI Lab (TDS Lab) that tackles both practical problems in healthcare practices and fundamental challenges in data science & AI.

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Elise Dusseldorp is Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research.

From global warming to the decolonisation of knowledge. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Leiden over 500 speakers from 60 countries have come together to discuss the big themes of our times. Why have the delegates come?

Prof. Sarah de Rijcke is Rector Magnificus on the Executive Board of Leiden University. Her responsibilities include teaching, research, student affairs and academic HR policy.

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The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.

Leticia Rettore Micheli is an Assistant Professor at the unit of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology. In her research she investigates how situations of inequality, unfairness and scarcity influence our psychology as well as our behavior when interacting with others.

The Russian military assault on Ukraine has profoundly shocked knowledge institutions in the Netherlands, as represented by Universities of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Dutch Research Council,…

It was the Night of Discoveries on Saturday 16 September: a summer encounter between art and science. Leiden researchers from various disciplines inspired the public with their quest to understand our world.

Ana Cristina Arcos is PhD candidate at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) working in zebrafish imaging and deep learning algorithms with Dr. Fons Verbeek in collaboration with Institute Biology Leiden (IBL). Experience in healthcare, life sciences and software development. Master's…

Chengyi started as a PhD researcher at the Environmental Biology department of CML in September 2022.

Oscar investigates Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) solutions at CML’s Industrial Ecology department since October 2019.

Anniek started as a PhD researcher at the Industrial Ecology department of CML in September 2021.

Faizal Rianto is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Glorious sunshine, dozens of enthusiastic academics and huge numbers of Leiden residents ensured that this year’s special jubilee version of 3 October University was a great success.

Glyn Muitjens is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Yih-Jye Hwang (PhD, Aberystwyth) is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University. His research focuses on culture and identity politics in East Asia, East Asian approaches to human security, China’s strategic and just war thinking, post-Western IR, post-structuralism, and theories…

Marie Schwed Shenker M.A. is a PhD candidate at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies. She is conducting research on Law and Robotics (Social Assistive Robots) as part of the ERC StG SAFE & Sound project.

Natália Kubalová is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?

Agnes Schneider is a PhD candidate at the department of Archaeological Sciences.