Egbert Jongen is Professor of Economics and Socio-Economic Policy in the Department of Economics at Leiden University.

On Monday 28 March a ‘pen test’ will be carried out to check the security of the classroom scanners. These people counters in University buildings were temporarily switched off in December after there was growing disquiet about privacy aspects of the devices. The pen test will be carried out in the…

Chemical Biology is the discipline in which fundamental biological processes are studied by approaches intrinsically rooted in chemistry. The research of Herman Overkleeft is characterized by the design, synthesis and application of chemical probes in glycobiology and immunology.

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…

Leiden University has recently received various petitions from students and staff concerning our ties with Israeli universities. We have also held extensive discussions with the University Council in response to questions raised on the subject. We think it important that our partners and research projects…

Jackie Ashkin is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. She is part of the ERC project FluidKnowledge, led by Prof. Dr. Sarah de Rijcke, where she examines data and computing practices in ocean research, following the development and use of numerical…

Fijs van Leeuwen is professor of radiology and chair of ‘molecular imaging and image guided therapy’. He also co-directs the LUMC-wide image-guided surgery program. In addition to his appointments at the LUMC he has guest-appointments at the Bionanotechnology group of Wageningen University, the departments…

Until December 2017 Professor and Head of the Department Molecular Cell Biology, member board LUMC Division 4, coordinator research profile Biomedical Imaging. Additional professorship Science Faculty Leiden (since 2012), Medical Delta professor at TU Delft (2013) and member of the executive board of…

Renate is a PhD Candidate at CWTS. She uses a Science and Technology Studies’ lens to study public-private (research) partnerships in the deep sea mining context. Her main research interests are on science-society interfaces and transdisciplinary research related to the ocean, particularly those contexts…

Jerry Braun is Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery, in particular Pulmonary Surgery, and acting department head of the department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In addition, het is president of the Dutch Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery and member of the…

Mark Somers focuses his research on the role of surface atoms in the reactive scattering and diffraction of hydrogen from metal surfaces. He hopes to achieve 'quantum supremacy': taking all relevant dynamical surface effects into account at a quantum dynamics level.

Johan H.M. Frijns is an ENT consultant and professor of Otology and Auditory Physics, head of the Center for Audiology and Hearing Implants Leiden (CAHIL) and of the LUMC Expertise Center for Rare Ear Diseases. From 2005 to 2023 he was also a trainer of the ENT residents in the Leiden OOR. He is also…

Corrie Marijnen started her training as radiation-oncologist in 1994 in the Academic Hospital Leiden. During her residency, she started with her PhD, which she achieved with honors in 2002 . After working for 4 years in the Antoni van Leeuwenhoekhospital/National Cancer Institute, she became chair of…

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…

Alexander Kros uses supramolecular approaches in a biological environment. His main interest is in understanding the underlying fundamentals of membrane fusion in Nature using model systems and utilize the obtained knowledge to design new drug delivery tools.

PhD candidate and member of the QSS research group. His research focuses on machine learning and natural language processing of papers to improve literature searches.

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…

The universities of Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam are working together to show their students what artificial intelligence (AI) means for their own field. Three AI minors will start in the 2022 – 2023 academic year and will answer questions such as: ‘How best can you use AI in your research discipline?’…

Hans Mol is Professor Emeritus by Special Appointment of Medieval Frisian History on behalf of the Fryske Akademy at the Leiden University Institute for History.

Annelies Schulte Nordholt is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Hester Ruigendijk studies the effects of financial scarcity for the Knowledge Centre for Psychology and Economic Behaviour. Next to that, she has multiple teaching and coordinating roles within the department of Social, Economic, and Organisational Psychology.