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• When materials become critical: lessons from the 2010 rare earth crisis Research output

  Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

• Squaramide-based supramolecular materials for 3D cell culture applications Research output

  A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.

• Fermions and Bosons: Excitons in strongly correlated materials Research output

  Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

• Geometric phases in soft materials Research output

  Geometric phases lead to a nontrivial interference result when an electron's different quantum mechanical paths choices encircle a magnetic coil in an Aharonov-Bohm experiment.

• Mapping and assessing the construction materials required for the Belt and Road Initiative Research project

  1) The in-use construction material stocks of the BRI projects and their temporal and spatial distribution. 2) Environmental impacts (e.g. carbon emission and biodiversity loss) of constructing BRI projects. 3) Socio-cultural impacts of the BRI projects.

• Inter-Section Special Issue: How Materials Shaped the Human World Research output

  NTER-SECTION is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on contributions from junior archaeological researchers at Leiden University. The journal offers an accessible platform for the publication of individual research by undergraduate and graduate students. The Editorial Board consists of PhD…

• Sustainable by Design framework for the next generation of Chemicals and Materials (SSbD4Chem) Research project

  How can the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework developed in the SSbD4CheM project facilitate the creation of safer and more sustainable chemicals and materials across various industries?

• Functionalized two-dimensional membranes and materials for solar-to-fuel devices: a multiscale computational approach Research output

  In the current global context, there is a pressing need to address sustainable energy supplies to safeguard our Planet and its ecosystems. The choices made by human society have a significant impact on genetic evolution and climate.

• Publications Papyrological Institute

  Publications of the Leiden Papyrological Institute

• Divine Fertility: Practices, Materiality and Sacred Landscapes in the Horn of Africa Research project

  This project examines the notion of sacred fertility and sacred landscapes, associated rituals and material culture, both archaeological and ethnographic manifestations in the Horn of Africa.

• Superlattices in van der Waals materials: A Low-Energy Electron Microscopy study Research output

  n this PhD thesis, the recombination of different atomic lattices in stacked 2D materials such as twisted bilayer graphene is studied. Using the different possibilities of Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), the domain forming between the two atomic layers with small differences is studied.

• Colloquium: Understanding Structure and Function in Molecular and Material Metal Oxides Event - 13 May 2026

  Lecture

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  René van Walsem Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

• Reactive Copolypept(o)ides as Novel Material for Systemic siRNA Delivery Research project

  The aim of the project is the development of polypept(o)ide-based delivery systems to use siRNA as systemic applicated therapeutic agent against e.g. solid tumors

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  Dennis Braekmans Associate professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Sowmya Marriyapillai Ravisandiran PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Yanan Liang Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

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  Tomer Fishman Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

• Research Papyrological Institute

  Overview of the main research projects at the Leiden Papyrological Institute.

• Marriage traditions and the stem family in ancient Egypt: a study of marriage contracts, social structure and family life Research output

  On Wednesday 11 June 2025 Steffie van Gompel successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

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  Batuhan Can Guest researcher

  Faculty of Science

• A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya): Based on Umberto Paradisi’s Material Research output

  This dissertation provides a grammatical description of the Awjila language, a small Berber language spoken in the Libyan oasis of Awjila.

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  Harmjan de Vries PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Catrin Böcher PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Lingli Hou PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Science

• Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human Research output

  Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human is edited by Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker and Philip R. Olson

• Size effects in microstructured superconductors and quantum materials Research output

  We find ourselves in an era of transition, not just towards a more computing- and data-driven society but also away from unsustainable fossil fuels as an energy source.

• Probing quantum materials with novel scanning tunneling microscopy techniques Research output

  This thesis described the development of novel scanning tunneling microscopy techniques to investigate strongly correlated electronic states in quantum matter.

• Material amendments to public contracts in public procurement law Research output

  On 14 September, Erik Plas defended the thesis'Material amendments to public contracts in public procurement law'. The doctoral research was supervised by Jan Hebly and Bart Krans.

• Interpreting lithic raw material variability in Middle Palaeolithic contexts Research output

  A modeling approach with applications to the Bau de l'Aubesier (Southeastern France)

• On quantum transport in flat-band materials Research output

  The studies in this thesis are focused on the physical effects in the flat band materials. The results contain the discovery of strong enhancement of RKKY spin-spin interactions with specific geometric arrangement and dynamical generation of excitonic order parameter with high magnitude.

• melting pot: research into Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic material culture at Gortyn, Greece Research project

  What does the excavated material tell us about the continuation and/or change of urban life during the transitional phrases from Antiquity to the Middle Ages on Crete and in the eastern Mediterranean more generally?

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  Ellen Raven Guest Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Erika Riccobon PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

• Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions. Of Making Many Books There Is No End: Festschrift in Honour of Sven P. Vleeming Research output

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• Material demand for key infrastructures in emerging energy and digital technologies under the low-carbon transition: estimation and sustainability Research output

  The global transition toward low-carbon energy systems and the rapid expansion of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, are reshaping how modern societies produce, move, and process energy and information.

• The connected Caribbean. A socio-material network approach to patterns of homogeneity and diversity in the pre-colonial period Research output

  The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy.

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  Shiza Aslam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Patrick Degryse Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Annemieke Verbaas Education and research staff member

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Andrea Ragragio

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Aymara Wagner PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Nils Pauliks PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Hidde Weistra
• Ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed Research output

  This Festschrift in honour of Cary J. Martin

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