Ingrid Samset is a political scientist who teaches at Leiden University College. Her research and teaching address questions related to peace and conflict dynamics, transitional justice, postcolonial studies, and memory studies.

Jip Barreveld is a PhD candidate in the Rural Riches research project at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Andrés Martín Garciá de la Cruz is NVIC/NINO PhD Candidate at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, registered with the Graduate School of the Institute for Area Studies. See also his profile on the NINO website (linked below).

Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann is a scholarship PhD candidate at the History and International Studies Section, Institute for History, Leiden University. Her research focus is on Southeast Asian state’s foreign policy behavior in the contemporary American-Chinese great power rivalry. She researches foreign…

Alies Jansen is a PhD candidate in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at the Institute for History at Leiden University. In 2025, she is a visiting researcher in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dennis Braekmans is Assistant Professor in Archaeological Materials Analysis in the Department of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Archaeology.

Henrike Jansen is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

Miriam Waltz is assistant professor in gender justice and health technologies with a joint appointment between the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and the African Studies Centre.

Elmer Veldkamp is an anthropologist of Korea and Japan, who focuses on the collective and individual processes by means of which people make sense of changes and developments in their everyday lives.

Vincent K.L. Chang is a university lecturer in history and international relations and a senior fellow at the Leiden Asia Centre. He focuses on historical experiences and contemporary approaches to nation building, conflict, diplomacy and law in the East Asian and Indo-Pacific contexts. His main areas…

Felix Ameka is Professor by Special Appointment and Senior University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Aida Gholami is an external PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies / Global History at the Leiden University Institute for History.

Jan Wim Buisman is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Kim Beerden is university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Florian Schneider's research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment, recent Chinese economic developments, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He…

Jasper De Paepe is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. Jasper De Paepe has conducted research on local security networks, police lethal force and the interaction between experts and policy makers, as well as the acquisition of expert advice in the formulation of policy responses…

Dr. Silvia D’Amato is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), part of the research groups Terrorism and Political Violence and War, Peace and Justice. Silvia is also Secretary General of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS).

Dr Csilla Ariese is temporarily filling in for Dr Mariana Françoco as leader of the ERC Starting Grant BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).

Caroline Waerzeggers is Professor of Assyriology at Leiden University. She specializes in the history of Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC, with a focus on imperial transformation under Neo-Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid rule. She is particularly interested in studying local responses to empire.…

Hester Groot is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. She is a historical sociolinguist, focusing on the language of the poor in Late Modern Scotland. Her research specifically looks at pauper letters, written by the poor to request relief from local authorities across Scotland. As part of…

Arturo García De Léon is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology funded by a PhD Grant by the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama (SENACYT).

Ola Uttenweiler is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Charlotte van der Voort is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests revolve around the interface between ancient and modern rhetoric, argumentation theory and philosophy (of language).

Jan Adriaanse is Professor of Turnaround Management at Leiden Law School. He is engaged in research projects in the interdisciplinary field of financial distress, turnaround management and insolvency law. He is an author on these subjects and a regular speaker at international conferences.

Angus Mol is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Gitta Veldt has been a member of the Civil Law Department of the Institute for Private Law since December 2012, first as PhD-fellow and assistant professor, and currently as associate professor.

Jessie Sun is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research interest focuses on how co-speech gestures interact with speech and non-manual articulations in multimodal communications, examined from pragmatics, cultural, gesture, and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Adrien Dadone is a researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is deaf and comes from France. He is in Leiden for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Adrien's research focuses on the emergence of sign languages and phenomena of contact with coverbal gestures. He is also interested in studying sign…

Mandy de Wilde is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. The core question driving her work is how ecological sustainability plays out in local practices, and the situated harms as well as the opportunities that emerge from it.

Tycho started as a PhD researcher at Leiden University for the Nationaal Kennisprogramma Stikstof in collaboration with the Meteorology and Air Quality group of Wageningen University and Research, RIVM, TNO and KNMI.

Nina Jaspers is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Clare Fenwick is Ph.D. candidate in the project SOLID (ILS 2.0) at the Department of Economics, Leiden University.

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…

Cramming from a book, making notes or learning summaries. In the past these were about the only ways to memorise your course material. But that has long since changed. Multimedia is the code word. But is it effective?

Susana Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. With a PhD in medical translation, her research intersects machine translation, AI, health communication, and migration.…

Reinout Vriesendorp has been a part-time Professor of Insolvency Law at the Institute of Private Law (Department of Company Law) and the Institute of Tax Law and Economics (Department of Business Studies) since 1 January 2016.

Gert-Jan Boon LL.M. MSc is a researcher and lecturer at Leiden Law School's departments of Company Law and Financial Law and Business Studies. Prior to this, he completed his master's degree in Marketing (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Corporate Law (Leiden University). He conducts research in the…