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• Social Forces, States and Hydropolitics of the River Nile: Case Studies of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan Research project

  This research aims to investigate how different social forces interact with hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin and what are the constraints of engagement.

• This is how a channel is formed between two organelles News - 25 February 2020

  The channel through which two cell components exchange material appears to form at the edge of their contact surface, and not in the middle. This was discovered by the Leiden physical chemists Jelger Risselada and Edgar Blokhuis together with researchers from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.…

• antecedents, and consequences of cognitive uncertainty experiences of social care professionals Research output

  What are the manifestations, antecedents and consequences of the cognitive uncertainty experiences of social care professionals?

• Horace Walpole and his correspondents; Social network analysis in a historical context Research output

  The current study focuses on Walpole’s social network and the language as contained in the letters of the network members.

• Eyetracking and psychophysiology indicators of social cognition and emotion in adults with Klinefelter syndrome Research project

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• Research Social and Behavioural Sciences

  The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences brings together high-quality research and outstanding mono- and multidisciplinary teaching.

• Towards a feminist playology: social sport studies and the limits of critique Research output

  The making of sacrifices seems part and parcel of any elite sportsperson’s life. Remarkably, the insights that we find in the current literature in social sport studies are not able to make sense of the references to sacrifice in the data that emerged in the context of this study on the social significance…

• Marina de Regt - Yemen beyond Borders: Migration, Mixed Identities and Social Change Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

  This lecture will be hosted on Thursday, 4 December 2025 at 6:00 pm.

• Political Networks and Social Movements: Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016 Research output

  Book by Soledad Valdivia Rivera

• Conspiracy thinking and social media use are associated with ability to detect deepfakes Research output

  Deepfakes are videos that have been manipulated to replace one person’s likeness with that of another. They can be difficult to distinguish from authentic videos. In our study, we found that people who score high on conspiracy thinking and people who use social media more are better at distinguishing…

• Visualizing the classics: Reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history Research output

  D.P. Kok defended his thesis on 10 October 2017

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  Mario van der Stelt Professor of Molecular physiology

  Faculty of Science

• The advantages and disadvantages of bioorthogonal proteins Research output

  This thesis describes the use of bioorthogonal proteins in immunological settings. It provides an introduction towards the field of protein modification, which was used throughout the thesis for the expression of proteins containing unnatural amino acids.

• Chemical tools to study lipid signaling Research output

  Synthesis and application of chemical biology tools to study immunomodulatory signaling lipids.

• Teaching synthetic molecules how to communicate News - 4 July 2019

  Although Sander Wezenberg just started working in Leiden in March this year, he already managed to win a Vidi grant from NWO. Inspired by nature, Wezenberg wants to bring synthetic molecules to life and teach them to communicate. But who exactly is Wezenberg and what drives him?

• Inhibitors and probes targeting PslG Research output

  Pseudomonas Aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium which can form biofilms, increasing its resistance against antibiotics and the host immune system. Polysaccharides are an integral part of this biofilm, one of these polysaccharides is called Psl. PslG is a glycosidase, able to cleave this polysaccharide,…

• From chemistry teacher to founder of outdoor escape room company News - 15 June 2023

  Alumnus Vincent Renken studied Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences in Leiden and is now co-founder of an outdoor escape room company. ‘I asked myself: do you want a standard life or an adventure?’

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  Jorge Duran Solorzano PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Social Ties that Bind: Unraveling the Role of Trust in International Intelligence Cooperation Research output

  Together with Pepijn Tuinier and Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, Sebastiaan Rietjens researched the role of trust in an international intelligence cooperation.

• Child Interethnic Prejudice in the Netherlands: Social Learning from Parents and Picture Books Research output

  The aim of this dissertation is to provide insight in interethnic prejudice of children in the Netherlands and attitudes and ideologies that they are exposed to through two socialization agents (parents and children’s books).

• Effects of the early social environment on song and preference learning in zebra finches Research output

  Songbirds as vocal learners learn their songs and song preference from social tutors⁠. Tutor choice for both song and preference learning are important to characterize for understanding individual learning performance and cultural transmission of song⁠.

• The link between hearing loss, language, and social functioning in childhood Research output

  The aim of this thesis was to study the link between hearing loss, language skills, and social functioning in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children. Sufficient language skills are an essential prerequisite to develop appropriate communication skills, in order to join in conversations with others.…

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  Welmer Molenmaker Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Hanneke Palmen Associate Professor

  Faculty of Law

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  Chen Wang Guest Staff Member

  Faculty of Law

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  Helen Steele Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adva Eichengrün Guest Researcher

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Rüya Akdag PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Elise Kortink Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Katerina Johnson Postdoc/guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Anouschka van Dijk PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Ili Ma Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Phebe van Langevelde Guest researcher

  Faculty of Science

• Postponement of the Congress on the Social Benefits of Higher Education to the autumn Economics

  The organising committee of the congress 'Social Benefits of Higher Education' has decided to postpone the congress.

• Markets, Ethics and Agency: Changing Land Utilization and Social Transformation in the Uplands of Northeast India Research project

  This project explores the decline of shifting cultivation in Northeast India. What is the impact on society of people’s deepening engagement with markets and the state?

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  Jiemiao Chen Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Cognitive control in context: Neural, functional, and social mechanisms of metacontrol. Research project

  To argue that people can control the relative contributions of goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes to decision-making and action selection.

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  Siddharth Divakaruni Lecturer

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Targeting Human Proteasomes: Substrates, Inhibitors and Prodrugs Research output

  Large parts of the research described in this Thesis aims at the development of oligopeptide-masked toxins and their in situ immunoproteasome-mediated activation.

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  Anthe Janssen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

• Lithic Technology, Social Agency and Cultural Interaction in the Bronze Age Aegean Research project

  LiTechAe: Percussive stone tools related to stone masonry techniques seen through experimentation and use-wear analysis.

• Social and epistemic inequalities in science: insights from a multi-method study of forest research Event - 5 December 2025

  Seminar

• To wind up changed: Assessing the value of social conflict on onshore wind energy in transforming institutions in the Netherlands Research output

  In this article, Annemiek de Looze and Eefje Cuppen, investigated empericallly if and how social conflict leads to institutional change.

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  Anne Miers Associate Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 3 Research output

  Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural,…

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  Willie Peijnenburg Professor Environmental toxicology and biodiversity

  Faculty of Science

• Social Dimensions of Crane and Wetland Conservation in African Rural Landscapes: Insights from Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe Research output

  This thesis focuses on the social dimensions of crane and wetland conservation in rural landscapes in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

• Molecular and Nano-Engineering with Iron, Ruthenium and Carbon: Hybrid structures for Sensing Research output

  Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

• Discovery of novel inhibitors to investigate diacylglycerol lipases and α/β hydrolase domain 16A Research output

  Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

• Technologies and social agency of painted plaster in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age Research project

  This project explored the role of material culture, in casu painted plaster and its technologies, in expressing dynamic social identities and in forging complex interwoven human relationships in the context of the Middle to Late Bronze Age of the Aegean and East Mediterranean.