9,873 search results for “Research” in the Staff website
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'
After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongen to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speech at Leiden University in The Hague on Tuesday, which included personal lessons and memories, from sleeping on the ground with the prime minister to the…
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From pioneer to leading institution: 40 years of the Institute of Air and Space Law
What started as pioneering work, has evolved over decades to become a renowned institute in 2025 with an internationally acclaimed master's programme. 'Almost everyone involved in the aviation and space sector knows us in Leiden.'
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…
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How does the government spend taxpayers’ money fairly?
Public procurement is not a hot topic for the average citizen. That’s a pity, says PhD candidate Erik Plas, who did research on the fair spending of public money: 'If a council project goes completely haywire, because it costs more than expected, it could even mean that local taxes will have to be r…
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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Banned almost–prime minister of Thailand: ‘Politics must be moral and realistic’
Pita Limjaroenrat (45) was set to become Thailand’s next prime minister, but in 2024 the Thai Constitutional Court dissolved his progressive Move Forward Party and banned him from politics. He now reflects publicly on the policy values that brought the party to prominence.
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Staff symposium on student well-being – A shared path to well-being: students and staff
Conference
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Opening of the academic year
University ceremony
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Religion and Fantasy (12th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Turkic Patronage in Central Asia: Patterns and Challenges
Lecture
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Pedagogy in Literary ‘Postcards’: João do Rio in São Paulo (1905-1915)
PhD defence
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From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Lecture, China Seminar
- Lecture and Dialogue session "Sustainable Employability"
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Kick-off meeting Health Humanities
Lecture
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Solidarity and Racism in Europe [POSTPONED]
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Transforming Caste: Circus and Body Politics in Colonial Malabar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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LCN2 seminar February 2024
Lecture
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Cracking the 3D Paradata Puzzle
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing
Lecture
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Predrinks Oort lecture
Alumni event
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Preferences and Beliefs in Behavior and the Brain
PhD defence
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Cosmic tomography with weak gravitational lensing
PhD defence
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Inspiration sessions Empirics and legal education
Inspiratiesessies
- Opening facultair jaar
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Suicides in Lithuania in the late 19th − early 20th centuries
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Asia Academy #18: ChatGPT vs Deepseek: China's Rise as AI Power
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Introduction to ALICE Workshop
Workshop
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The Limits of Transformational Authoritarian Constitutions: The Case of Indonesia
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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“If Naveeni akka can do it, you can do it too!”: Changing pragmatic conventions in the English-speaking Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora community
Lecture
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 1: Comparative perspectives on campaigning, polarisation, and political violence
Debate
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Ties to the fossil fuel industry
Debate
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Pedagogies of Occupation: Free Time, Professionalization and Protest in Urban Brazil
Lecture, Research Seminar
- Histories Connected
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R introduction
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Absence as Artistic Strategy in Contemporary Art
Conference
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Structures of Power: US Infrastructure Building in the Circum-Caribbean During the Bad Neighbor Era
Lecture, RIAS-Sciences Po Seminar Series on Modern North American History
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Women, Family, and Litigation in Nineteenth-Century Chongqing
PhD defence
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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Generalization of placebo and nocebo effects on somatosensory sensations
PhD defence
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Discourse in contact: an areal study of wish formulae in Daghestan
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Supervising PhD candidates
Management
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Managing group work
Didactics
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Increasing media attention for wars in Africa. Focus: Sudan and Eastern Congo
Panel discussion
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Drop-in session new corporate identity: upgrade your communications
Course, Inloopuur
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Neotropical bat species: An exploration of brain morphology and genetics
PhD defence
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Lecture