Liselotte Rambonnet is a PhD student at the Institute of Biology in Leiden and conducts research on citizens collecting data about plastic pollution and animal rescue centers. She is interested in the motivation of volunteers to collect data and what their impact is, not only on themselves but also…

Joe Fortin is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. MA in Latin-American Studies

Lieke Smits is a researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Emmanuelle Radar is Assistant Professor in contemporary French and Francophone literature(s) and culture(s) (20th-21st c.) at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Coen van 't Veer is a university lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. He specialises in (post)colonial literature and history, especially that of Indonesia. He focuses on how colonial strategies of inclusion and exclusion still permeate our post-colonial society. From colonial literature…

Gerritje van de Haar is an external PhD student at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Edmund Frettingham is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Leiden University College. His primary research interests lie in security studies and religion in international politics, with particular focus on theories of security, approaches to the study of religion in international politics,…

Anders Ottosson is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Lotte Fikkers is a postdoctoral researcher in early modern English literature and manuscript culture at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Daphne Wouts is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

T.J. van der Mark is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Bert Fraussen's (associate professor) research agenda focuses on interest representation and lobbying, as well as how policymakers can ensure the effective and inclusive engagement of societal stakeholders in public governance.

Irene O'Daly is an assistant professor at the Centre for the Arts in Society specialising in manuscript studies, the history of ideas, and classical reception.

Haneen Omari is a university lecturer (assistant professor) at the Institute for Area Studies.

Jef Schaeps is curator Prints & Drawings at the Leiden University Libraries. He is also an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Arjan Louwen is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology

Sandra Karten is a PhD student at the Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society. She also works as a Teaching Methodologist Classics and supervisor at ICLON.

Marijn van Dijk is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Reinier Baarsen is Professor by special appointment of History of the Decorative Arts at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Thomas Kluitenburg is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

My main research interest is in narratives of Europe and in “Europe” as narrative. I seek to analyze what stories of and for Europe cultural projects and objects construct and what political implications these stories have. I am specifically interested in representations of “European culture” and “European…

Alexandre Afonso's research focusses on the comparative political economy of European countries, and the relationship between welfare states, labour market institutions and immigration.

Joanne Mol is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Ineke Sluiter is Distinguished Leiden Professor of Greek at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society). Her research focuses on ancient ideas on language, public debates, and the use of value discourse, and connections between classics and the modern world. She leads the Gravitation Grant…

Henric Jansen is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Manon is an interdisciplinary U.S. American studies scholar and lecturer, specialized in the U.S. American Evangelical Right and Televangelism, U.S. American Playful Apocalypticism and Conspiratorial Thinking, Memory and Colonial Violence. Currently they work as a PhD candidate on Dr. Sara Polak's…

Pedro Russo is assistant professor of astronomy & society at Leiden Observatory and the department of Science Communication & Society and coordinator of the Astronomy & Society group. Pedro is the president of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Communicating Astronomy with the Public.…

How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, students have been conducting all sorts of research, in Leiden. They presented their initial findings and recommendations at a Learning with the City meeting…

Jan N. van Rijn holds a tenured position as assistant professor at Leiden University, where he works in the computer science department (LIACS) and Automated Design of Algorithms cluster (ADA). His research interests include trustworthy artificial intelligence, automated machine learning (AutoML) and…

Due to its success, the Leiden2022 Q&A has been extended and is looking for even more thought-provoking, interesting or unusual questions.

Dr. Andrea Bartolucci is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University, where he teaches Crisis and Risk Communication, the Case Study Fukushima, and the elective Humanitarian Response to Disaster and Emergencies (HRDE).

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).