The Law and Digital Technology programme of Leiden University prepares you for a variety of successful careers in an ever-advancing global field.

With your bachelor’s degree you’re more than a specialist in South and Southeast Asia. Alongside your subject expertise, you’ve developed a broad set of academic skills that give you a strong start to your career. Graduates often find roles where communication, advising, organising and teaching play…

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Next to internships we have different ways to collaborate. See below for more information about LUdev and the AI Collaboration team.

With the What's Next? series we hope to inspire current Creative Intelligence & Technology MSc students, show the variety of paths taken after the studies, and bring together alumni. Editions of the series are generally organized around a particular theme by Creative Intelligence & Technology MSc students…

Study of human cultures using computational approaches

How does environmental heterogeneity shape biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales?

Workshop

The course is taught by experts from Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs, alongside leading practitioners. Their expertise spans international relations, security policy and counterterrorism, bridging academic insight with real-world experience.

Do you want to know more about the Data Science & Artificial bachelor’s programme and experience what it’s like to study in Leiden? Leiden University offers you a variety of introductory activities to help you with your study choice.

PhD Research Projects:

A research into homicide.

Steps to take if you need residence permit only, and not a visa, for your upcoming studies.

Light obscuration (LO) is the current standard technique for subvisible particle analysis in the quality control of parenterally administered drugs, including therapeutic proteins.

The Western Mediterranean is a key region to understand human dispersal events within and out of the African continent as well as for the eventual replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans during the Pleistocene. Central to any conclusive interpretation of archaeological and palaeoclimatic…

Together we can make science open. Find the next step that fits your journey here.

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

In this paper, Sarah Giest and Bram Klievink highlight the effects of AI implementation on public sector innovation. This is explored by asking how AI-driven technologies in public decision-making in different organizational contexts impacts innovation in the role definition of bureaucrats.

NestWatch uses smart birdhouses to research how the city affects the development of young birds.

A dental anthropological approach to foodways, health and disease, and crafting in the pre-Columbian Caribbean.

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On 22 November 2018, Els De Busser spoke at a panel during the conference

Digitalisation to achieve sustainable (administrative) justice.

In this thesis we study products of linear error correcting codes.

Public management scholars have long debated public and private sector differences. However, the generalizability of empirical results has been limited due to the shortage of cross-national studies.

The AAM-LR project aims at building a demonstrator of a web service that will help filed researchers to annotate audio- and video-recordings.

How digital technologies affect the way we conceive of the self and its relation to the world, considered through the lens of media art practices.

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

Do you want to contribute to a more intergrated health care system? In the two-years Master Population Health Management, knowledge insights from epidemiology, data analysis in healthcare, medicine, public administration and behavioral sciences are combined into a globally unique interdisciplinary programme.…

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx & Prof.dr. P.G. van Dokkum (Yale University)

Archive of old software and data

This article explores how employees use leadership behaviours and how characteristics of the organizational context affect their engagement in leadership.

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal

This study investigates how the tenure of security (proxied by both inter- and intra-party electoral advantage) affects the engagement and political performance of members of parliament.

CWTS is involved in a number of international partnerships and initiatives.

Our staff has a strong international reputation and a broad research network, facilitating international student exchange. They lead projects world-wide, from France to the Caribbean, and from Ethiopia to Russia.

Balikh Valley Archaeological Project Monograph 1 - BAR International Series 468

This study seeks to analyse how job stress could be the result of performing administrative tasks

This article examines the effects of introducing proportional representation (PR) in Polish local elections on women’s political representation.

The main objective of this thesis was to develop clinically relevant survival models for patients with high-grade soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities, in particular the development and validation of prediction models for use in clinical practice.

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

In the era of big data, extracting insights from complex datasets is a key challenge. This thesis demonstrates the superiority of graph-based methods over traditional clustering (e.g., k-means, DBSCAN) and outlier detection for analyzing high-dimensional and noisy data.

The newly developed AI Collaboration Centre aims to forged alliances with the (local) government, companies and other educational institutes.

This paper, written by Silvia D'Amato & Andrea Terlizzi, investigates the extent to which the European Union is strategically engaging against terrorism.

Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology CAA95.

CT scanning of skeletal remains can tell us about how strong or weak a persons bones were and we can relate that back to diet, activity, and reproductive factors.

Every day, we make numerous decisions, from choosing what to eat to how we interpret the world around us. Traditionally, researchers have assumed that a key part of our decision-making process, namely the decision criterion, stays stable over time. However, increasing evidence suggests that instead…

The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.

In 2023, the OSCL, together with the University Library and Academia in Motion, ran a survey to better understand the state of Open Science at our university. In this year's follow-up, we are asking you to give your input, so we can jointly develop how Open Science evolves in our university.

This thesis mainly focuses on multimodal understanding and Visual Question Answering (VQA) via deep learning methods. For technical contributions, this thesis first focuses on improving multimodal fusion schemes via multi-stage vision-language interactions.