Many students receive their first job offer during or right after their Business Studies internship. With an MSc in Physics you are well prepared for broad array of career prospects in research or industry.

Pectin is a plant cell wall polysaccharide made of mainly D-galacturonic acid (GA) subunits. The potency of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger to naturally secrete high amounts of pectinases to degrade pectin has been utilized for the industrial production of pectinases.

The living plant collections form the heart of the Hortus botanicus Leiden and serve as a vital resource for scientific research. By studying these collections, researchers can explore biodiversity in a unique way and conduct experiments on living material.

In this book, Jan Melissen and other authors explore how governments engage domestic citizens in global affairs through the emerging practice of 'home engagement' in diplomacy, highlighting its growing importance in an interconnected and politically turbulent world.

Glycosidases are essential in fundamental biological processes and are responsible for the degradation of most (oligo)saccharides, glycolipids and glycoproteins.

On 16 January 2024, Professor Obiora Okafor from Johns Hopkins University opened the third cycle of the Owada Chair with the lecture Global Diversity and the Living International Human Rights Law.

This PhD project investigates how Russian state-aligned media frame the war in Ukraine for international audiences and how these frames travel across borders, being adopted, adapted, or challenged by foreign media and political actors.

In 2020 the Utrechtse Heuvelrug project started and in a record time the entire ice pushed ridged was investigated. Thousands of potential new burial mounds, Celtic fields and cart tracks have been discovered.

The workshops are open to everyone aged 17 and over. Leiden University students receive a discount on the course fee. View the varied offerings below. (The visual arts workshops include use of materials.) Choose your workshop and sign up!

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How do different emotional expressions influence the behavior of other people in negotiations?

Knowledge and culture subproject 1:

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotor: J.J. Boelens, R.G.M. Bredius

The 10th ISAP Congress aims to bring together scholars working on papyri and related documentary sources in Arabic, Coptic, Greek, Pahlavi and other languages from the Late Antique and early Islamic Near East in order to foster dialogue between philology, papyrology, and historical research.

The master in Media Studies is a one-year programme with four specialisations. Each specialisation explores connections between the various media and examines both present-day and historical material.

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The Advisory Board has been established to support LUGO in its operations.

This volume challenges the idea that the development of ‘democracy’ is a story of rise and progress at all. It is rather a story of continuous but never completely satisfying attempts of interpreting the rule of the people.

Status placement process

This project aims to develop the European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO), a platform that brings together data from major European higher education initiatives to provide comparable insights into higher education systems and institutions across Europe. EHESO supports analysis, benchmarking,…

Metal-organic compounds hold great promise as photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) agents, leveraging their unique geometric and electronic properties to achieve precise spatiotemporal control over drug activation.

The pre-master’s programme helps students to meet the admission requirements to the History master’s programme. This one-year programme of 60 EC is taught in Dutch.

A part of the steel construction of the former Gorlaeus high-rise forms the basis of a new green bike park which is part of the redevelopment of the Faculty of Science.

To support sustainable travelling in our university community, LUGO is excited to offer the Sustainable Travel Kit - designed to make eco-friendly international travel easier and more comfortable.

Since the start of the Green Office, several projects have been initiated to increase awareness amongst staff & students and to make the university more sustainable. Read all about our current projects here.

The goal is to reduce single use coffee cup use both at the university cafés and cofee machines.

Alongside Leiden, Leiden University has a second hometown: The Hague.

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In this editorial, Nature endorses the 'Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics', which was published earlier this month by researchers from fifteen different universities, including Rodrigo Ochigame (CADS) and David Holmes (FWN).

The NVIC library is a public, academic reference library. Entrance is free—no membership needed—and offers access to our book collection and two reading rooms, which have a WiFi connection. It is not possible to borrow books from our library.

Those who consume the most also cause the greatest environmental damage. For the top ten per cent of consumers worldwide, this amounts to as much as 5.7 trillion dollars. This new research from Leiden has received considerable attention in international media.

Leiden academics research the world around us and pass on their knowledge to future generations. Each with his or her individual expertise and personal fascination for a particular discipline, they are the public face of the University.

Many students receive their first job offer during or right after their Business Studies internship. After graduating you can also aim for a career in Mathematics research.

Many students receive their first job offer during or right after their Business Studies internship. After graduating you can also aim for a career in Biology research.

The receptor nomenclature committee of IUPHAR, the International Union of Pharmacology, has several subgroups. Among these are a few that our division is involved in, those for adenosine, nicotinic acid, and GnRH receptors.

What happens to the different waste streams?

How can we promote social cohesion in a society that is culturally and religiously diverse?

The European Homicide Monitor (EHM) offers a standardized framework for countries and regions to compare homicide characteristics, patterns and trends.

This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the Netherlands…

The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.

Research in the POD-group addresses all features of random phenomena – modelling, structuring, analysis, control, optimisation – and covers both fundamental and applied aspects.

Knowledge and culture subproject 4:

An overview of our exhibition catalogues and research monographs on the Middle Eastern collections.

How can legal education in Indonesia become more relevant for supporting the rule of law and providing legal services that common citizens need?

The aim of ANCIENT CHARM was to develop neutron-imaging techniques and the associated equipment, and help establish neutron imaging as a mainstream archaeological analytical technique. In particular, one of the goals was a new imaging technique which called neutron resonant capture imaging combined…

The Cyber Security lecturers are scholars and lecturers of Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

Steps to take if want to request a Working Holiday Permit for your upcoming studies.