Martin Berger is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology and a member of the interdisciplinary research group Museums, Collections, and Society. His research interests include (etnographic) museums and collections histories, indigenous forms of representation, and the impact of globalization…

Nathal Dessing is a scholar of religion whose research focuses on everyday lived Islam in Europe. She is the director of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS).

Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University and Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Joost Broekens studies Artificial Intelligence, in particular Affective Computing and the interaction between humans and socially interactive agents. He is the President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), which is the main international organisation in his research…

Isaac Scarborough is Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Institute for History.

Anja Schoots-Snijder is an external PhD candidate at ICLON Leiden University. Her research focuses on student agency and the characteristics of a learning environment in which agency can develop.

Anna Notsu is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of the Leiden University.

Ariëlle Reitsema is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. In the NWO-funded project

Dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title: 'Military oaths of allegiance: ritual and commitment'.

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.

Fernando Rojas Franco participates in the program Leiden University Dual PhD Centre The Hague. Working title thesis: 'Post-pandemic changes in International Higher Education. A new profile for lecturers from an International Business Programs perspective'.

Rik van Gijn is professor by special appointment of ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity in the world at the Centre for Linguistics. His interests focus on the indigenous languages of South America, and in particular on the question of the historical development of the stunning linguistic diversity…

Tin Kapetanovic is a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title: 'The Transnational Expansion of Terrorist Groups: A study into the manifestation of terrorist groups in foreign territories using a transplantation approach'.

Toon Kerkhoff is Associate Professor of Public Administration. His work is characterised by a historical approach to core questions in public administration and the themes of corruption, integrity, public value(s) and public sector and civil service reform. He currently serves as educational director…

There are still many life-threatening diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, metabolic syndrome and cancer, for which there are no suitable therapies available. Mario van der Stelt aims to discover new molecules that can act as drug candidates for these type of diseases. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary…

André Gerrits is Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Global Politics.

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…

Working title: 'Peer education for promoting positive attitudes towards LGBT students in pre-vocational schools'. Dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre.

Dr. Erik Bähre is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Working title 'Effectiveness of social programs for at-risk students'. Dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre.

Dennie Oude Nijhuis is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

Karsten Lambers is Professor of Digital Imaging in the Humanities at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and guest researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology. At Leiden University, he continues to supervise ongoing PhD projects but no longer accepts new PhD candidates.

Berthe Jansen is Assistant Professor of Tibetan Studies at Leiden University. She has a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the same university. Jansen has wide academic interests but most have to do with the confluence of religion and society. Her monograph The Monastery Rules: Tibetan Monastic Organization…

Hannah De Mulder is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

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.