LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP) is the largest knowledge centre in the Netherlands in the field of life sciences & health and is also highly regarded internationally. The clustering of high-quality education, research, care and business attract students, scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the…

The CSPPR’s activities range from hosting public events to small-scale seminars with internal and external experts.

Acknowledging the work and effort of Leiden University staff is one step closer to having a more sustainable University.

The research area "Health and well-being in a healthy society" studies the institutional and behavioral factors that play a role in health and well-being for people of all ages.

Written by a select international group of leading privacy scholars, Social Dimensions of Privacy endorses and develops an innovative approach to privacy.

The Saalian archaeological record at Maastricht-Belvédère (the Netherlands).

This research profile area brings together descriptive, historical and theoretical linguistics, as well as psycho- and neurolinguistics.

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

This page provides information to support your application for the Master's programme of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Andrea Bartolucci is Assistant Professor at Institute of Security and Global Affairs. In this study, the scholars adopted a multidisciplinary approach to investigate wildfire risk in Van Chan district in northern Vietnam, a region where official data are sometimes difficult to collect or inconsisten…

This dissertation provides crucial but as yet missing empirical data on the tone accent opposition in the so-called

This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages, the perceptions, attitudes and issues relating to identity in minority language areas, and the number of grammatical aspects amongst those who speak these minority languages.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

In this project we develop algorithms to automatically detect a particular type of archaeological sites in satellite images of the Alps.

This research paper seeks to examine the nature of the nexus between right-wing extremism and the military by surveying five potential consequences (i.e., problem areas) arising from the presence of right-wing extremists within the armed forces of twelve Western countries.

On the 13th of October, Cesko Voeten successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Cesko on this achievement!

Pottery traditions and social interaction in the earliest Neolithic of the Lower Rhine Area

Once you have decided on your field of research, you should start looking for a supervisor as early as possible.

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) is an interdisciplinary research institute at Leiden University. We study the research system and its connections to society. Our research, along with our evaluation expertise and our longstanding experience with scientometric databases and tools,…

What are the institutional dynamics of the adoption of internal market legislation?

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Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC)

Amerindian settlement patterns and early colonial cartography in Northern Hispaniola

With the unique programme in Global Archaeology at Leiden University you will explore the archaeological past of Europe, the Mediterranean and West Asia, or the Americas. You address the impact of global developments on the area of your choice. The courses prepare you for a career as a regional archaeologist…

PLATO is a centre for research and development in education and training. 4 areas of expertise and 4 methods.

Update : March 2020 Directors: Dr. Lara Weiss and Dr. Christian Greco Deputy directors: Dr. Daniel Soliman and Dr. Paolo Del Vesco

Health workers have always sought ways to fight disease in vulnerable groups in the population. It is now clear that such research also benefits more prosperous countries. African worm infections and innovative thermometers have shown Leiden researchers how to fight diseases of affluence and keep health…

The Department of Civil Law is responsible for education and research in the field of civil law. We teach the master’s degree programme Civiel Recht (Civil Law LL.M.), attracting many students each year from Leiden and elsewhere.

The research conducted at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research is clustered within the divisions of BioTherapeutics, Drug Discovery & Safety and Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, and the Metabolomics and Analytics Centre.

Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism.

In the future, physicians may be able to identify dementia much earlier than they can today because a computer algorithm will be able to predict from brain scans how our memory is going to develop.

Using brain imaging to discover the area in the brain that recognizes emotion.

Read-Urban was a first project to investigate whether policy recommendations can be made with the aid of linked data collections and data science and to gain experience with the success factors for such a process.

The History Master at Leiden University has a strong international orientation.

Leiden University is building on its future in Leiden. As a means to achieving this aim, the University will be investing in excess of 100 million euros over the coming years in constructing the new accommodation for the Faculty of Humanities at Witte Singel and Doelensteeg. The University aims with…

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan