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Student Life
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Continuing your studies
If you want to follow a full academic programme, the next step after obtaining your bachelor’s is a master’s degree (MA) at a Dutch or international university. And there may be no better place for your further master’s study than Leiden University!
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Online Experience Urban Studies
Study information, Online Experience
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Student Life
Leiden is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life.
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Online Experience South and Southeast Asian Studies
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Student life
Leiden is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life.
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Student life
Leiden is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life
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Online Experience African Studies
Study information, Online Experience
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Online Experience English Language and Culture
Study information, Online Experience
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Student life
Leiden is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life.
- The Technologies of Global Migration Governance
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Initiatives
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.
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Education and Child Studies (MSc)
The master's programme in Education and Child Studies is an academic programme that focuses on the link between theory, research and practice.
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Europa Institute staff attend 2024 IMISCOE Annual Conference
Moritz Jesse and Elena Kukovica attended the 2024 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Lisbon which was held from 2 to 5 July 2024.
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HJD Diplomacy Reading Lists
Since 2006, HJD has made an important contribution to shaping diplomatic studies as an international academic field. Our new HJD Diplomacy Reading List presents a diverse collection of analyses categorized into forty-five topics published in HJD over the years. We hope these lists prove a valuable resource…
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‘What is the value of the social sciences?’
At the Faculty's opening of the 2019-2020 academic year, the focus lay not just on the vision for the future of the social sciences, and the opening of the refurbished library, but above all on the government's plans for university financing. The speeches included an interview between Annemarie Samuels…
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Training
As a PhD candidate, you are expected to follow certain courses and training programmes in the context of your training as a researcher. The courses and training programmes will help you conduct your research, write your dissertation, develop your career, and gain self-insight. The LACDR PhD training…
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Twenty years of MIRD: four alumni speak up
Big celebration upcoming weekend: MIRD's 20th anniversary is on the cards. Four alumni from different periods tell what this unique two-year master's in International Relations and Diplomacy has brought them.
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A much-needed new class of antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the phenomenon that pathogens become insensitive to the antibiotics that we use against them. A growing number of pathogens is becoming resistant, with methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) as the most famous example. But while the threat of AMR represents a slow-moving…
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Adding fuel to the conflict : how gas reserves complicate the Cyprus question
In this research I assess the impact of the recently discovered gas reserves south off Cyprus on the escalation of the Cyprus conflict.
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Smartmix: A new generation of efficient biomedical research
Can we find and commercialise new treatments for chronic disease that affect our ageing population? And how can we customise this research and development programme to the small but highly-developed Netherlands research economy?
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Microscale Analytical Tools
Enabling volume-restricted metabolomics using next-generation microscale analytical tools.
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SCALES project
How to strike a balance between the sometimes conflicting stakes of individual, public and private data-producers and data-processors?
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Developing metabolomics for a systems biology approach to understand Parkinson's disease
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), are increasing in prevalence due to the aging population. Despite extensive study, these diseases are still not fully understood and the lack of personalised treatment options that can target the cause of the diseases, rather than the symptoms,…
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Books and films
Leiden University has made history with its many scientific discoveries; a history that is also illustrated in a variety of books and films.
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The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration provides a complete exploration of the prominent themes, events, and theoretical underpinnings of the movements of human populations from prehistory to the present day.
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Initiatives
LUCITH runs a number of initiatives and programmes. Below you will find a list of initiatives and activities by the Centre for Islamic Thought and History.
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Cheminformatics: Analyzing small-molecule activity data
While bioinformatics methods deal with the analysis of sequence information (be it proteins or DNA), the field of cheminformatics is concerned with the analysis of small-molecule datasets.
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Corpora Non Agunt Nisi Fixata: Ligand Receptor Binding Kinetics in G Protein-Coupled Receptors
The present thesis focuses on the pharmacological concept of drug-target interaction, which dates back to the beginning of modern pharmacology.
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Research
Within the Chinese medicine, more than 80% of the constituents of the preparations are derived from plants. Like any other organism, plants are constantly interacting with their changing and often harsh environment during the various phases of their life cycle.
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Revealing the nature of new low-frequency radio source populations
It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.
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European Prehistory
Our research deals with the deep history of Europe and Eurasia, from the inception of farming up until the beginning of the Roman Period. This was a period in which key developments took place that had a profound impact on European landscapes and society until the present day. Our research and teaching…
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A document classifier for medicinal chemistry publications trained on the ChEMBL corpus
Source: J Cheminform, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2014)
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Operators in the lexicon. On the negative logic of natural language
Operators in the Lexicon opens with an old chestnut: why are there no natural single word lexicalizations for negations of the propositional operator and and the predicate calculus operator all: why neither *nand nor *nall?
- Leiden Observatory
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Genome Research
The CIGR brings together a diverse range of unique expertise in genome research rooted in biology, chemistry and physics. Members of the CIGR investigate genome folding and genome transactions. An important aspect is direct as well as long term relevance for medicine.
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Azafaros is valorizing a library of compounds
The company Azafaros was established in 2018 to translate innovative science from Leiden University and Amsterdam University Medical Center into novel disease-modifying treatment modalities for rare genetic metabolic disorders such as lysosomal storage diseases.
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Imagined Voices- A Poetics of Music-Text-Film
Imagined Voices deals with a form of composition, music with on-screen text, in which the dynamic between sound, words and visuals is explored.
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Cardiovascular Pharmacology
The Cardiovascular Pharmacology research group headed by Ilze Bot aims to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie atherosclerotic plaque destabilization, which is the key process that leads to acute cardiovascular syndromes such as a myocardial infarction or stroke.
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation
Science begets technology but technology also begets science. Anne Urai from the Leiden Institute of Psychology is part of an international team team that rolls out a new, user-friendly, plug-and-play AI tool they hope will become an engine of discovery by quantifying the growing volume of recorded…
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Extra curricular
Are you interested in taking up an extra challenge during your master’s programme? Have you thought about applying for our Summer School programme or are you interested in developing your personal leadership style?
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Career prospects
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 Bio-Pharmaceutical research.
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Prepare for your studies
You’ve been accepted! Leiden University looks forward to welcoming you as a new student. Your next step is to prepare for your studies. Below you can find some tips to help you get a head start as you embark on your studies at Leiden University.
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Career preparation
Leiden University offers you several services related to career orientation and job application skills.