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• ‘A last-minute challenge became my biggest breakthrough’ News - 11 December 2025

  Data Science & AI student Nataliia Bagan combines a passion for mathematics, language, and artificial intelligence. Her exceptional bachelor’s thesis on improving reasoning in large language models earned her a nomination for the Leiden Science Young Talent Award 2025.

• First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics News - 12 August 2019

  Academic studies or an academic career are a big challenge if you are deaf. Particularly in Africa, where many countries don’t even have secondary schools for the deaf. A team of Leiden academics has organised the first summer school for and by deaf academics on the African continent, in Ghana. We spoke…

• Language Policy and Planning of Amazigh Languages in Morocco Event - 6 January 2026

  PhD defence

• Mili Gabrovšek wins Education Award 2015 News - 4 September 2015

  English Language and Culture lecturer Mili Gabrovšek has won the Education Award 2015. In the report, the jury praised Gabrovšek's humor and enthusiasm. Each year the award is presented to the most inspiring lecturer of the faculty at the opening of the academic year.

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  Rik van Gijn Associate professor

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  Maarten Jansen Professor emeritus

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Katharina Riebel Associate professor

• Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages Event - 16 December 2025

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  Francesco Barchi
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  Gea Hakker-Prins Director Academic Language Centre

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  Xiao-Fang Chi Administrator

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  Patricia Valdivia Suclla-Poppens Skills Lecturer / Guest

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  Colin Ewen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Patricia Espejo Fernández Skills Lecturer / Guest

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  Charlotte van Haarlem Lecturer

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  Anne Marie Kuijpers Skills lecturer

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  Eli ten Lohuis Skills lecturer

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  Gemma van Leeuwen Skills Lecturer

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  Fernanda Maciel Ziober Skills lecturer

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  Ton van der Wouden Guest

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  Stéphanie Tonckens Skills Lecturer

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  Cornelia de Haan Skills teacher

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  Geert Booij Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• Safe anytime-valid inference: from theory to implementation in psychiatry research Research output

  Classical statistical methods, such as p-values, are difficult for researchers to apply correctly. They for example do not allow drawing conclusions from a study early, or for extending a study with extra research groups that want to make their data available later.

• Interactive scalable condensation of reverse engineered UML class diagrams for software comprehension Research output

  Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron, Co-Promotor: P. van der Putten

• Weneya´a – “quien habla con los cerros” Research output

  This study documents and translates the Saa (Zapotec) cultural heritage of the Bene’ Ya’a/En’ne I’ya peoples, the Zapotec inhabitants of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.

• How infants learn about language within their social context - experimental and observational evidence Event - 27 February 2026

  Lecture, LUCL Colloquium

• Comenius grants for three Leiden lecturers News - 1 April 2019

  Three lecturers from Leiden University have each been awarded a €50,000 Comenius Teaching Fellows grant to implement an educational innovation project. They are Carlijn Bergwerff (Education and Child Studies), Francesco Ragazzi (Political Science) and Krista Murchison (Centre for the Arts in Society…

• The importance of relating to others: why we only learn to understand other people after the age of four News - 24 March 2017

  When we are around four years old we suddenly start to understand that other people think and that their view of the world is often different from our own. Researchers in Leiden and Leipzig have explored how that works. Publication in Nature Communications on 21 March.

• ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers News - 31 January 2023

  From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: six Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.

• In a maze of posters, Psychology students find their way to new insights News - 15 June 2026

  Why does EMDR therapy actually work? And how do people experience a small dose of psychedelics? Curious Psychology bachelor's and master's students investigated these and other questions through their research projects. They presented their findings during Science Day.

• Metaphysics as Praxis Research output

  Metaphysics as Praxis: Rereading Dogen's Metaphysics Through Deleuzian Pragmatism and Pratimutpada

• Our mission and vision Humanities

  The mission and vision of the Faculty of Humanties have been determined in the Faculty Strategic Plan (FSP).

• Career prospects European and International Human Rights Law (Advanced LL.M.)

  Career prospects are very important these days. The programme European and International Human Rights law provides you knowledge in human rights settings.

• Extra challenge English Language and Culture (BA)

  If you want to take on an extra challenge during your bachelor’s programme, options like the Honours College, the Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) will give you additional depth, intensity and study credits. You can even do a double degree.

• Career prospects International Criminal Law (Advanced LL.M.)

  The International Criminal Law programme prepares you for a successful career within a multidimensional field, in Europe or around the world.

• Prof. G. Rozenberg Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

  LIACS prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg is one of the world leaders in research on Theoretical Computer Science and Natural Computing. He is often called the guru of Natural Computing.

• Prof. G. Rozenberg Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

  LIACS prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg is one of the world leaders in research on Theoretical Computer Science and Natural Computing. He is often called the guru of Natural Computing.

• Collections Middle Eastern Library in Leiden

  The new Middle Eastern Library (MEL) will bring together the UBL's own Middle Eastern collections and the collections of the library of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), which has been part of the Leiden University Libraries since 1st January 2018.

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• Dutch Module 7 Course
• Dutch Module 3 Course
• Dutch Module 4 Course
• Dutch Module 5 Course
• Dutch Module 2 Course
• Career prospects Peace, Justice and Development (Advanced LL.M.)

  The programme provides you for a succesful career. As a graduate, you will be qualified for positions within organisations such as international courts.

• Research Centre for Indigenous Americas Studies

  Research framework CIAS

• Housing Leiden student city

  Arranging accommodation can demand a lot of time and effort for Dutch and international students. For this reason, finding a place to stay is one of the first things that need to be arranged when you are planning to study at Leiden University. But how do you actually find a room in Leiden?

• Teacher Education Programmes Department of Teacher Education

  ICLON provides several programmes for second and first degree teaching qualifications.