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

How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.

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Ann Brysbaert is Professor in Ancient technology, crafts and materials at the Faculty of Archaeology.

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

During your studies you'll acquire a good theoretical basis. But what about practical experience? By doing an internship you can gain a clearer picture of a particular position or sector. For some study programmes an internship is a compulsory part of the curriculum.

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If you have a plan that could improve the education or the learning environment of the Faculty of Humanities in terms of diversity or inclusion, you can apply for a grant from the faculty’s JEDI Fund. This year, Nasreen has been helping to develop a new syllabus for the first-year Ancient History co…

René Olsthoorn studies the role of RNA structures in viral infections and genetic disorders.

Dmitri Filippov was born on November 21, 1966 in Moscow and studied chemistry at Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology. After the graduation he learned the ABCs of synthetic bioorganic chemistry under the supervision of Dr. B.I. Mitsner. In 1992 he moved to Leiden and after a short period was…

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A hidden disability can make studying a considerable challenge, partly because of the disability itself, but also because others may not realise that extra support is justified. To overcome this problem, the Faculty of Humanities is introducing the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower.

Chinese State-backed entities have taken tiny stakes in parts of two Alibaba subsidiaries that oversee a video platform and web browser. Professor Rogier Creemers argues on CNBC this move is part of a larger plan for tech regulation.

Ieke de Vries is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Richard Jansen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Kate Kirk is Programme Leader Diversity and Inclusion at the Leiden University Centre for Professional Learning (CPL). She has a PhD and more than a decade of experience in academic education and research. In her research she made use of multilevel analysis of migration and integration policies and…

Corine Gerritsen is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH).

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Ruth Alison Clemens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her current research project is titled 'Posthuman Music Machines: Literature in the Age of the Pianola' and is part of the NWO Startersbeurs project 'Tracing Players Playing Traces: Non/Human Music…

Öykü Kurtpınar is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University. Research Title: Innovative Air Mobility.

In March 2020, Kimia Heidary joined Leiden Law School's Department of Business Studies to begin her PhD research on online price discrimination. Before coming to Leiden University, Kimia obtained her bachelor's degree in Law at Utrecht University (2016), a master's degree in Persuasive Communication…

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Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently against people with a gender expression that does not match their birth sex. Why does this evoke such resistance? We asked Professor by special appointment…

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‘Jelena Prokic, university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, will be preparing students for the challenges and opportunities of the digital world. In September, six modules will start on subjects such as statistics and digitally searching through texts.…

Augusto Clemente is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS | Leiden University) and a professor at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR, Brazil). His research focuses on the internationalization of higher education in Latin America.

Francielle Franco is a PhD from UNESP (Brazil). At CWTS, she will work in the Focal Area Engagement & Inclusion. Her research focuses on altmetrics, facilitating the visualization of altmetric impact indicators.

Uta Wehn is a professor by special appointment of the chair ‘ Citizen Science and Sustainability’.

Ting Cong is a full professor at the College of Publishing, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. His research interest includes academic publishing, open science and social media…

PhD candidate and member of the Science and Evaluation Studies (SES) research group. She studies new tools used in research evaluation, particularly those which aim to capture wider notions of research quality, excellence and impact.

Marie Curie Research Fellow. His research focuses on how the production of visual data on public and private oceanographic vessels and their impact on ocean sciences research practices.