Physicist Remko Fermin from Leiden University was awarded a Rubicon grant from NWO. He will use it to study superconducting diodes that could contribute to reducing the CO2 emission of data centres.

Prof.dr. Maurits S. Berger, LLM (1964) is a lawyer and Arabist. He is professor of Islam and the West and holds the Sultan of Oman Chair for Oriental Studies at Leiden University, and is a senior research associate with the Clingendael Institute for International Relations in The Hague. He has worked…

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.

In September 2023 the new minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food starts. This minor critically examines the complexities of food sustainability through ecological, socio-economic, political, and cultural systems.

Jorik ter Veer studied Political Science in Leiden. How does he look back on his student days?

Do young people trust the law? That is what HC Law students are trying to find out. Regular guest speaker and social worker Carlito Jones invited the students to the Bezuidenhout-West neighbourhood centre in The Hague to talk to youth workers and neighbourhood police officers: what do they run into…

In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law, she reconstructs how the story they told in court differs from the one they wrote…

Paul van Els is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

In a new Transforming Society article, Salvador Santino Regilme, Associate Professor and Chair of the International Relations Program at Leiden University, critiques the Trump administration’s US–China tariff war as a covert instrument of domestic class warfare.

The Municipality of The Hague, Leiden University and CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM) will together try to realise a University building in the former Hudson’s Bay premises at Grote Marktstraat 48-50/Spui 3. This will facilitate the growth of Campus The Hague. A cooperation agreement was signed…

Would you like to work more on student well-being, dignity and respect within your association? There are a range of workshops available that can be followed by all members.

When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

On 7 November, we marked an important milestone for our Law and Criminology bachelor's students who celebrated at their graduation ceremony.

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Farouk El-Hosseny will join the teaching staff as Visiting Assistant Professor of International Law.

On Monday 22 November 2021, the Municipality of Leiden, Leiden Law School and the Legal Advice Centre in Leiden signed a collaboration agreement. The parties agreed that at the request of the Municipality, the Law School will help train students to better equip them in their work on the Rental Team…

In academia, the mention of Wikipedia might be met with suspicion. However, for Tsolin Nalbantian, university lecturer Modern Middle Eastern Studies, the encyclopedia is an opportunity to broaden the skills of her students and to increase public knowledge. She received a Teaching Comenius Fellowship…

EuroScience Open Forum – ESOF - is Europe’s biggest multidisciplinary and prestigious scientific conference. ESOF2022 will take place from 13-16 July 2022 and is hosted by Leiden as the European City of Science (in the Netherlands). The Kamerlingh Onnes Building is one of the locations of the ESOF and…

Christoph Niessen is a researcher in comparative politics.

Green cities and a well-protected food system: Roy Remme and Oliver Taherzadeh study ways to achieve these. But how can their scientific findings lead to societal change? They share their experiences with science-policy initiatives.

Het strategisch plan van de faculteit wiskunde en natuurwetenschappen (FWN) werd gepresenteerd tijdens de opening van het academisch jaar 2023-2024.

Menno Lenting is a lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Jori Snels is a lecturer at Leiden University University and cultural analysis researcher. She also teaches at University College Utrecht and is completing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) and Western Sydney University (Institute for Culture and Society).…

Hubert Mooiman is a lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Alec Aldrich is a guest researcher Centre for the Arts in Society.

Yvonne Bleyerveld is a professor by special appointment at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Petra Boudewijn is a lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Marc Argeloo is a lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Maaike Hommes (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Cultural Analysis and Film and Visual Culture at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ad Maas is a professor by special appointment in Museological Aspects of the Natural Sciences on behalf of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, at the Centre for the Arts in Society. He is Curator of Modern Natural Sciences of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. Maas specializes in the history of physics, history of scientific…

Vamba Sherif is a lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society.