Alumnus Ben Smulders has worked for the European Commission for the past 33 years. ‘The discipline and depth that I experienced during my student days has helped me through various stages of my professional career.’

Deze week sluiten we het academisch jaar af met verschillende FGGA-studenten, waarin zij hun zomer- en toekomstplannen vertellen, maar ook terugblikken op het afgelopen jaar: ‘Ik vond het ontzettend prettig om weer terug te komen naar de fijne sfeer op Wijnhaven.’

Flitsinterview met alumnus Kees van der Staaij: ik ben en blijf een jurist in hart en nieren

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It recently emerged that a Swiss firm secretly owned by the CIA and the West German intelligence service BND had been selling manipulated coding equipment to numerous governments, including allies, to spy on them through a Swiss cover firm for years.

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An Ancient Egyptian System of Workmen’s Identity Marks

On the 26th of May Sudarmoko successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

The Europa Instituut is pleased to announce that on 21 November 2016 a new handbook “EU State Aids” (31 Chapters, 1500 pages) was published.

Where did species survive the cold cycles of the current Ice Age?

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How does invasive hybridization affect threatened native species?

Kathryn Emerson defended her thesis on 28 June 2016

How do balanced lethal systems originate and persist in nature?

Does a moving hybrid zone leave a genomic footprint?

The Leiden Institute of Physics organises three ongoing lecture series.

Kyra van der Moezel defended her thesis on 7 September 2016.

Alexander West defended his thesis on 20 May 2021

The Leiden Leadership Centre is an interdisciplinary network organisation branching out from its place within the Institute of Public Administration, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (Leiden University in The Hague). The LLC functions as a platform by connecting students, practitioners, and…

What is the provenance of introduced populations?

Exotic marsh frogs from distant lands are colonising the south-east of the Netherlands. This has been demonstrated by biology students from our faculty. Although the amphibians thrive in our little country, they are harmful to native biodiversity.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was exceptionally versatile, as becomes clear when studying its multiple uses both within Ancient Egypt and beyond its borders.

The colloquia Ehrenfestii take place about once every month. This lecture series has been running since 1912.

The Leiden Complex Networks Network (LCN2) aims at bringing together scientists from different disciplines, based on a common interest in both theoretical models and empirical analyses of networks and graphs.

In this article, Ben S. Kuipers and Joanne Murphy review recent critiques of leadership theory and practice.

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

In this thesis, topics relating to the optimization of high-throughput pipelines used for imaging are discussed. In particular, different levels of implementation, i.e., conceptual, software, and hardware, are discussed and the thesis outlines how advances on each level need to be made to make gains…

This dissertation is part of a broader research project that revolves around unraveling the evolution of balanced lethal systems.

The book offers different theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform. In addition it gives an overview of the major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector.

These are our lecturers (in alphabetical order) for the 2025 Summer School in Languages and Linguistics.

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Evolutionary and ecological interactions affect species on genetic and phenotypic levels. This theme aims to understand these processes at multiple levels: from molecules to genomes to populations and to communities. Our research focuses on evolutionary responses to anthropogenic change, the role of…

There are several committees within the IBL that are crucial for organizing and coordinating research, education and finances. Among the lesser-known of these committees is the IBL Institute Council (IC or Instituutsraad, IR). The purpose of the IC is to serve as a link between IBL members and management…

Leiden University commemorates its victims of the war and pays tribute to all members of the university community who resisted injustice.

Links to various Digital Humanities organizations and resources, mainly in English.

Daniel Soliman defended his thesis on 15 September 2016.

Een nieuw boek in de reeks Elementaire deeltjes

Kartika Setyawati defended her thesis on 12 November 2015

Once a month, the Europa Institute comes together to hear from its own staff members, guest researchers, or external scholars about their research plans, work in progress papers, or recently concluded projects relevant to European law. The Food for Thought-series is organised by Melanie Fink.

This book explores chronologically, for the first time, the representation and redefinition of Indonesia’s regional cultures through recording media, from the introduction of the gramophone record through the current video compact disc (VCD) era, taking as case study the Minangkabau ethnic group.

The Common Market Law Review has an internationally composed Editorial Board and Advisory Board.

In our culture, vocal harmonics function as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics.

All crested and marbled newts (the genus Triturus) suffer from an unusual genetic abnormality, called a balanced lethal system, that kills exactly half of their offspring. How can a trait so disadvantageous have survived millions of years of natural selection?

Jochem van den Boogert defended his thesis on 18 November 2015

On Thursday 10 April 2025 Wahyu Widodo successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

The authors aim to provide insight into the way in which frontline officials in teams employ leadership behaviour aimed at creating public value.