In a New York Times report on a bitter archaeological feud over the Nebra sky disk, Maikel Kuijpers reflects on its importance. 'It’s really unfortunate if we put all our focus on one exceptional status object. I think that’s not helping our discipline.'

The project has been done in the Mechanical Metamaterials group under the supervision of Prof.dr. Martin van Hecke and MSc Anne Meeussen . The title of the presentation is: ''Elastic Moduli of Smooth and Corrugated Thin Silicone Rubber Sheets.

Het project heeft plaats gevonden onder begeleiding van Prof.dr.ir.Tjerk Oosterkamp. De titel van de presentatie is:

CML researchers Nadia Soudzilovskaia, Rene Kleijn, Stefano Cucurachi, and Kevin Groen are teaching about the links between city sustainability and biodiversity, within the “Material city” course of the Bachelor Urban Studies curriculum. An online pre-view of an excursion on city biodiversity given by…

Fourteen students in geology, biology, astronomy and mathematics and seven staff members have made a geological excursion to Australia.

On 6 December, the Clingendael Institute on international relations, organised a round table on the occasion of the publication of its report on the instrumentalisation of migration.

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy is pleased to announce this call for proposals on the topic of diplomacy after the corona crisis for Forum Essays, a special category in the journal of shorter and more argumentative essays. For more information, please check the poster below. We look forward to receiving…

On 29 November Mariana Gkliati published an opinion piece in the Greek newspaper EFSYN, on the reorganisation of the greek asylum committees.

Switzerland and the EU are conducting negotiations on a renewed institutional framework for a number of already existing and future market access agreements.

At the annual conference FYSICA of the Netherlands’ Physical Society (NNV), Leiden postdoc Scott Waitukaitis has won the Young Speakers Contest.

Twelve Chinese PhD candidates in the Netherlands who are funded by the China Scholarship Council met with Leiden staff on 26 April 2012 to exchange experiences. Ten days earlier Leiden had welcomed a delegation from Peking University.

The publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution about the so-called Siberian unicorns took centre stage in a Dutch radio interview.

ACPA Professor Marcel Cobussen will participate in an international workshop on the development of an MA in Sound Studies at the University of Nantes.

Zhiyi Yu was elected as the winner of the annual PhD Competition at the LACDR Spring Symposium on June 17th 2014.

Every year, at 8:30 pm on the last Saturday of March, millions of people across the world join in raising awareness of the issues facing our planet.

LIACS graduate Lieven van Velthoven won yet another award for his Media Technology MSc graduation thesis entitled

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs has an opening for a policy advisor. The position is for Senior policy advisor and head of the cluster Education, based in The Hague. The deadline for applying is 11 September 2017.

From 1 December 2019, Miguel John Versluys, Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, will join the Supervisory Council of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO).

On the 28th of April 2021, The Europa Institute welcomed Mr. Menno Cox, Policy Officer at the European Commission (DG CONNECT).

Martin van Hecke published an article in Nature, together with physicists from AMOLF and UvA. They have developed a metamaterial that folds itself up, even in multiple steps. Van Hecke appeared in the following media.

The Leiden University Bachelor's programme in Philosophy features philosophical traditions from around the globe. Traveling through space and time, from Europe and Iran to India and China, and from Antiquity to the present day, you will learn how to challenge unquestioned patterns of thought, and how…

In the article 'Dankzij Instagram hebben jonge vrouwen over de hele wereld hetzelfde gezicht' in the Dutch newspaper NRC of 4 November 2021, Cultural Anthropologist Jasmijn Rana (Assistant Professor at CADS) talks about what she considers problematic about the Instagram face. The article discusses the…

The number of books by U.S. authors released in China has drastically decreased in recent years. Assistant professor Svetlana Kharchenkova wrote an article about this for the Diplomat.

Three in four scientists depicted in primary school science textbooks are men, according to a recent study by Observatory scientist Pedro Russo. In an interview he explains how this might impact children's later careers.

What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten discusses the recent success of South Korean cinema.

Does a drug enter into the human brain once administered in the body?

Fans of the Korean music movement K-pop go through hell for their idols. In return, artists care deeply about their fans: they even get to decide their hair color. In the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', PhD candidate Flora Smit takes a closer look at this relationship.

A day filled with sunshine and prospective students. On Saturday 2 March, Leiden University's faculties welcomed around 6,000 prospective students and 4,000 parents. Throughout this sunny day, they heard all about what it's like to study at Leiden University. Here's an impression of the event at Leiden…

Trump caused a lot of controversy in his first month as president. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe discussed the new administration’s decisions in various media.

In the latest episode of DWDD University on 'Light', Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf used a number of experiments from the Leiden Physics Practicum Lab. He showed why the sky is blue, that light is a wave phenomenon, how magnetism and electricity are connected and that white light consists of all colors of…

Prof. Dr. Richard Gill has recently joined as a member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). FQXi is an international association of scientists who explore the foundations of physics and cosmology.

BNR Radio has broadcast an item on the physics formulas that are painted on walls across the Leiden historic city center. The wall formulas are initiated by Sense Jan van der Molen and Ivo van Vulpen.

Denmark’s left-leaning government is taking a hardline stance on migration. Professor Sarah Wolff comments on BBC how politicisation is pushing liberal democracies to challenge international conventions.

Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Marieke Liem.

On 4 April 2019, the University of Basel held a conference on the subject of digitisation in academic teaching.

Neanderthals were the first people to make glue, but how did they do that? Leiden archaeologists discovered how, and their findings did not go unnoticed.

Schrödinger's cat is famously dead and alive, hidden in its closed box. As soon as one opens the box up to peek inside, the cat suddenly turns dead or alive. This is the 'measurement problem', that has stumped physicists for almost a century now. PhD student Tom van der Reep dared to look for a way…

A new University brochure, About Us 2020, provides in-depth information about Leiden University, its research, teaching and impact on society in 2020. It also showcases the research and teaching at the seven faculties.

Maarten Aalbers was invited as a guest speaker by the University of Bergen (Norway) to present his views on the joint application of state aid law and free movement law concerning the adoption of sugar taxes.

On April 19th, well-known Indian singer and scholar Sumithra Vasudev will give a unique lecture and singing performance at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Antiquities Museum) in Leiden.

On 8-10 June 2022, the GTGC international conference was organized. The conference included high-level roundtables regarding the International Criminal Court (including opening remarks by the ICC President), climate change, and the global Internet in a divided world. Further plenary sessions revolved…

In 2018, the Swiss Federal Government published the draft text of a Swiss-EU agreement intended to adapt the institutional rules of five existing EU Agreements.

Every Sunday at 7 pm, you'll be able to join us for either a public film screening or a lecture. Seats are limited and we work on a first-come, first-serve basis. Our doors open at 6:30 and close at 7:15 or earlier in case the lecture room has reached its full capacity (out of safety considerations)…

Last Friday, 2 February, Mariana Gkliati presented a paper at the Seminar, ‘Controlling Migration through Cooperation: Recent trends in the externalisation of migration control’, at Tilburg University, which was discussed by Thomas Spijkerboer and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen.

The Executive Board of Leiden University appointed Dr. Johannes Magliano-Tromp as interim member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs with the portfolio Education.

Marc Koper has been selected as one of the six new fellows in 2015 of the International Society of Electrochemistry.

What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.

Assistant professor Vincent Chang spoke in various media outlets about the Chinese commemoration of World War II.

As a cooperation between the St. Maarten Archaeological Center (SIMARC) and Leiden University in the Netherlands, graduate student Khristy Werleman of Aruba, who is finishing her Master's Degree in Archaeology at Leiden University, is helping to implement a professional catalogue-registration system…

In this NRC article, sociologist John Boy together with Martijn Lampert and Lonneke van den Berg discuss the three biggest paradoxes of Generation Z: limitless freedom but experiencing enormous stress, being culturally independent but economically dependent and being highly idealistic but also constantly…