Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.

Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.

Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…

Rowie Stolk is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law. Her research focuses on legal protection in cases involving collective or diffuse interests. From an interdisciplinary perspective, she examines the role of interest groups in the legal system and the position…

Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…

In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…

In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?

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…

A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.

Markus Davidsen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.

Jos Bazelmans is a Professor by Special Appointment in Delta-archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Ashleigh Morris is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Jean-Jacques Hublin is Professor Emeritus of Paleoanthropology.

Dr. Maria Magdalena (Marlena) Antczak is an archaeologist and anthropologist specializing in the archaeology of Northern South America and the Caribbean. She is currently a Guest at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and serves as the Director of the Archaeological Research Unit (UEA) in…

The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep popping up in media. In her dissertation, Tessa de Zeeuw examines the cultural appeal of such cases and analyses artistic responses. ‘Artworks sometimes have…

During her master's thesis, Nashanty Brunken (24) worked in a team with five other women. With this female team, they discovered the largest molecule so far identified in a disc. 'I have learned so much and because we are all women, it is incredibly empowering. It's very cool to see how far we've come…

Jelle Kaastra is a Senior Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and a part-time Professor at Leiden University.

Christoph Keller is a full Professor of Experimental Astrophysics at the Leiden Observatory. His research centers around polarized light.

Frans van Lunteren is Professor of History of Natural Sciences at Leiden University.

Jarle Brinchmann has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Astronomy from the University of Oslo. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge with his thesis

Xander Tielens is an emeritus professor at Leiden University. His research involves Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH molecules). He was one of the first people to acknowledge the importance of these molecules in the universe. In 2012, Tielens was the most cited astronomer of The Netherlands and…

Rychard Bouwens has Bachelor of Science degrees from Hope College in physics, mathematics and chemistry (magna cumlaude). At the University of California-Berkely he obtained his PhD with his research in Galaxy Formation and Evolution. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ACS GTO Team of the University…

Jacqueline Hodge has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the California Polytechnic State University and a Master of Science in Physics from the University of California. She obtained her PhD at the University of California. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Leiden Observatory…

Matthew Kenworthy is an Associate Professor at the Leiden Observatory. His research interests are in searches for extrasolar planets and the techniques that can help us find them, such as coronagraphic optics and point spread function reconstruction techniques.

Jason Laffoon is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeological Science, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Léon Buskens is an anthropologist studying law and culture in Muslim societies. One of his main research interests is how Muslims shape Islam in everyday life, in relation to other practices and to religious teachings. He has a longstanding interest in Morocco, and has more recently also started to…

What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…

Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?

Predicting the collective behaviour of systems, like a large group of people electing one of the parties, is no easy task. But there’s a theory that scientists have been using for decades to do just that: the theory of Gibbs measures. Last week, mathematician Mirmukhsin Makhmudov earned his PhD for…

Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Claire Weeda is University Lecturer and Director of Education at the Institute for History.

Madeleine O. Hosli is Professor of International Relations at Leiden University (PhD 1992). Her main research interests are in international political economy, international organisations and European integration.

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