How do balanced lethal systems originate and persist in nature?

Development & Disease is one of the four research themes of the Institute of Biology Leiden.

In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry makers from Oudenaarde who eventually settled in Gouda. Professor by Special Appointment Yvonne Bleyerveld and researcher Jos Beerens have been awarded…

An international mega-analysis on the neurobiological link between inhibited temperament and social anxiety disorder

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.

The One Amongst Zeroes project is funded by the NWO-Vici grant. The grant runs from October 2021 to August 2026. Grant No. VI.C.201.058

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Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions…

The research at the Living lab attracts a great deal of press attention. Please find below a small selection of the many news reports that have been published. Also take a look at the Zembla programme about the Living Lab.

This PhD project analyses the politics and aesthetics of depictions of torture in American and European ‘war on terror’ films.

A political-legal study of rights invocation by pollution victims in China and Indonesia

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It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding in order to advance in their career.

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It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding to advance in their careers.

Research conducted in this group aims at furthering our understanding of how communities and individuals deal with social change, conflict and trauma through remembrance and commemoration as well as forgetting in the arts.

Psychology Lab on Wheels is possible thanks to the support of our partners.

Developing and investigating statistical methods for complex data and models

In 2021 many of our students and staff won fantastic prizes and were awarded important research grants. This is our traditional review of these successes as the end of one year marks the beginning of another.

The Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy (SPP) aims to develop precision medicine approaches to characterise and predict variation in treatment response and enhance translational drug development strategies.

In 2023, many of our students and staff won great prizes and secured important research grants.

Enabling volume-restricted metabolomics using next-generation microscale analytical tools.

All children deserve a promising start. Most children are doing fine. But some need extra support, because of problems during pregnancy or because they grow up in disadvantaged circumstances, e.g. due to poverty, parental addictions or psychological problems.

Subproject of the NWO Smart Culture Grant research project 'The Critical Visitor'.

How to strike a balance between the sometimes conflicting stakes of individual, public and private data-producers and data-processors?

Perform cutting-edge research in the area of the STAR mathematics cluster.

Myrra Carstens

A living language?

What is the relationship between probability experiments and cryptographic applications?

What is the connection between materials with weak and strong gravitational interactions?

How can we develop a new microscope that can distinguish individual atoms in proteins?

How can new compounds relieve cancer patients of severe side effects?

Wolfgang Lüffler

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Prehistory of Amazonia seen from the kitchen

In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.

Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch Research Council pilot programme.

The ALMA Local Expertise Group (Allegro) is located in the Leiden Observatory (Sterrewacht). Professor Ewine van Dishoeck: ‘The Netherlands has played an important role in establishing ALMA. Thanks to this subsidy, we can now reap the scientific benefits.'

Wouter Halfwerk (IBL) received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for his research project on the influence of man-made noise on foraging birds.

An overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2018, as well as special appointments and royal distinctions.

Lecture and excursion

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The portfolio of eLaw includes research executed for the European Commission, NWO (the national research council in the Netherlands), the national government, local government agencies, large corporations, SMEs and NGOs.

van Luijk

How does CO adsorption on gold promote its own oxidation and the oxidation of other organic molecules?

What is the origin of solar systems?

Navarro Paredes

In what way can new tools and techniques be used to develop drug candidates for the treatment of neurological disorders?

How distance-dependent is graphene as biological sensor?

On 8 November 2021 YAL organized the successful symposium Interdisciplinary Research: Challenges and Opportunities.