External PhD candidate. Dmitrii's major focus is policy analysis, research interests include (but not limited to) research evaluation, university rankings, excellence initiatives in higher education, preprinting, and open peer review.

Jorrit Smit is a postdoc researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS).

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…

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?’…

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…

Thijs Porck teaches Old English, Middle English, Tolkien and Medieval Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He is a cultural historian of early medieval England, with a background in medieval history as well as English language and literature. The common strand in his research…

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

Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña is University Lecturer Development Studies at the Institute for History.

Gelijn Molier works since 1 September 2006 for the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law at the department of Jurisprudence, first as an assistant professor and since 2013 as an associate professor.

Prof.dr.ir. van Bodegom is professor Environmental Biology and professor Circular International Horticulture Systems within the Institute of Environmental Sciences. He investigates biodiversity and ecosystem patterns to support transitions to a sustainable society.

Leiden University has had a turbulent week. There have been protests inside and outside our buildings that have evoked reactions, and students and staff have felt unsafe. We want with this message to look back at the past week and look forward to the future. What happened and how do we now want to move…

Júlia is a PhD Fellow in Digitalisation and Public Policy at The Hague Centre for Digital Governance.

Hanum Atikasari is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Daphne is a PhD candidate within the project One Among Zeroes |0100|: Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam. Currently.

Miguel Mira is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research investigates the intersection of cinema and virtual reality with a focus on narratology.

Clodagh Murphy is a PhD candidate on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, exploring the collaborative production of Queen Elizabeth I's English scribal letters.

Marcel Keurentjes is a historian who is specialized in Non-Western History, Cold War history and in Game studies. Currently he is working on his PhD about Cold War themed video games.

Holly Riach is a PhD candidate working on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Mustafa Colak is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Francianne Dos Santos Velho is a lecturer and external Ph.D. candidate at the Academic Language Center and Centre for the Arts in Society, respectively.

Helen Westgeest is a Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Marcel IJsselstijn is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Jonathan Silk is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He specializes in Buddhism in its Asian contexts, primarily from a historical point of view. He has a special interest in Buddhist scriptures.

Gert Oostindie is Professor Emeritus of Colonial and Postcolonial History at Leiden University and former Director of the KITLV / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

The central question of my research is: Which syntactic properties do all languages have in common, which properties are variable and which associations are there between these syntactic variables? The goal of this research is to contribute to a theory of natural language that explains the range and…

Leiden University has set up two committees to consider issues that are the focus of much attention within our community and society at large. They are the Knowledge Security Committee and the Fossil Fuel Industry Collaboration Committee. Former dean Joanne van der Leun will chair both.

The interdisciplinary AI & Society minor of Leiden University brings together students and lecturers from a wide range of disciplines. Together they look at the impact of AI on society. Students are enthusiastic about this merging of worlds.

Professor of Modern China Florian Schneider researches what people do with technology and what technology does with people. Social media, for example. And then mainly in China.

Ana Parrón Cabañero is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. Ana holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programme in Research and Innovation in Higher Education awarded by the University for Continuing Education Krems and Tampere University. Her…