‘Culture change takes time,’ said Vice-Rector Hester Bijl at the closing panel of the University’s Diversity Symposium on 26 January. She talked about the road to a diverse and inclusive university. The symposium provided plenty of concrete examples of small steps that can already be taken.

D&I Event

Within the space of a few months, the Heritage Quest citizen science project, whereby volunteers scan elevation maps of the Veluwe area for burial mounds and other prehistoric remains, has already led to groundbreaking new insights. Hundreds of burial mounds have been found, as have a huge number of…

The Faculty of Archaeology has a long research tradition in the municipality of Oss. Since 1974, researchers and students have been carrying out archaeological research here. In Januari 2019, an enormous replica of one of the top local finds was unveiled standing in the middle of a roundabout.

In collaboration with the The Hague Historical Museum and photographer Dagmar van Weeghel, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is the first to present a retrospective exhibition of the photographic oeuvre of Alexine Tinne (1835 – 1869). New research into her life and work is the reason for a reappraisal…

The new Erfgoed Gezocht/Heritage Quest website means you can play armchair detective and hunt for undiscovered burial mounds in the Veluwe. This will help stop them being destroyed by construction projects. The website is the initiative of the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology in collaboration…

Another year's end draws near. And what a year it has been! On December 12th staff and students of the Faculty of Archaeology came together to celebrate and reminisce. Professor Joanita Vroom got us in a festive mood by telling tales of Byzantine banquets, while a chef served historical dishes to sa…

Arjan Louwen (MA) will start a PhD research project on the social and ideological aspects of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cremation graves in continental Northwest Europe (1100-500 BC): Breaking and making the ancestors. Making sense of the inconspicuous 99% of urnfield graves.

On 20 September 2024, Leiden University colleagues Associate Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri (Main Applicant), Assistant Professor Michael Klos (Co-Applicant), Professor Simone van der Hof (Co-Applicant), Constanta Rosca, Maria-Lucia Rebrean and Maëlle Picout gladly welcomed RESOCIAL’s consortium members…

Over the past few years, citizen scientists from the Heritage Quest project have scoured the entire Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas for unknown archaeological heritage. One of the results of this research is that the number of known burial mounds in this area has doubled.

Leiden University College The Hague turns 7 today (29 September 2017). Lieke Schreel, educational director of LUC has been with the college from the start. She shares her thoughts on another year and birthday of the College.

Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and quiet. Leiden computer scientist Felienne Hermans has developed Hedy, a programming language that teaches children how to program. An educational way to…

The Rutte-III coalition agreement has been presented and the commentary is flooding in. Public administration experts Arco Timmermans and Gerard Breeman examined the new agreement – as they have done for every coalition agreement since 1963 - and made a systematic analysis of it: it is very much about…

The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or junior scholar. The prize celebrates excellence in philosophy of physics, and promotes breadth across the field both historically and philosophically.

As part of the celebrations around the 25th birthday of the Faculty of Archaeology, a panel discussion on the future of archaeology was organised on December 13th. For this discussion an international panel of scholars was invited to give their perspective and enter into conversation with our Faculty…

From chilling on the beach to a speech by the mayor. HOPweek is a speedy way for hundreds of ‘Leiden’ students who are going to be studying in The Hague to get to know each other. Many of them come from abroad. ‘I actually dare to cycle here.’

Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Such a system is desperately needed because human archaeologists around the world are being flooded with data.

How did you get to where you are now? This is a key question in the Academic Life Course board game, developed by and for academics. ‘In a normal working week we hardly ever talk about the career choices we make, but with this game, we do.’

Sinds september 2010 werken Geerten Waling en Anne Heyer in het NWO project ‘The Promise of Organization’.

The Department of Economics at Leiden Law School teaches courses in both Leiden and The Hague to more than 1700 students.

‘Let us not forget the power of genuine engagement,’ dean Sarah de Rijcke stressed at the New Year's Reception on 7 January 2025, which was also attended by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and addressed the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Prof. W.C. Peul Summary: Meningeomen zijn tumoren van de hersenvliezen. Deze zijn vaak goedaardig en daarom geassocieerd met een goede levensverwachting. In de afgelopen jaren heeft internationaal een verschuiving plaatsgevonden waarbij de focus van de tumor naar de patiënt verlegd is. Ons onderzoek,…

PhD defence

Prof. G.P.M. Luyten Summary Er zijn verschillende opties om oogsterkte (refractie) afwijkingen te corrigeren. De meest bekende opties zijn een bril en contactlenzen. Sommige mensen kunnen, of willen, geen bril of contactlenzen dragen. Er bestaan ook chirurgische opties om refractieafwijkingen te corrigeren.…

PhD defence

You are cordially invited to our first SAILS event of the new academic year! On September 9 we will visit the newly opened BrAINpower exhibition at Museum Boerhaave, followed by drinks at the museum's conference room. Please register here if you want to join. Programme: 16:00 - welcome…

Lecture

PhD defence

In de Toeslagenaffaire ging de afgelopen jaren veel mis. Wetgever, bestuur en rechter bleken onvoldoende in staat om een wet rechtmatig te laten uitvoeren. Ouders lukte het vervolgens niet om hun recht in de rechtszaal te halen. Welke oorzaken liggen daaraan ten grondslag en wat leert dat ons over het…

Come to the Living Lab and discover what lives above, on and under water. Water is full of life. It's not just fish or ducks that swim in it. There is also a lot buzzing around it. How much life is there in our waters? And what influence do people have on it? The Living Lab was set up in 2016 with…

VVIK Symposium

Lecture, Symposium

From deepfakes, streaming services and dating apps to facial recognition, self-driving cars and medical applications, we can no longer ignore artificial intelligence. It is changing our lives, just as steam engines once did at the time of the industrial revolution. The exhibition BrAInpower shows where…

Dear friends of the NVIC,

In the largest study of ancient DNA ever conducted, an international team of scientists has revealed the complex story behind one of the defining periods in European prehistory. The study is published this week in the journal Nature.

How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in the act of infecting a cell. Artificial intelligence has penetrated every corner of science in Zuid-Holland. Three researchers from Delft University of…

Overview of the CML reports

The Convergence AI Mixers bring together the brightest minds from TU Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University with thought leaders from industry and society to explore pressing AI challenges. In an informal setting these experts exchange views and interact with the audience to find…

Prof. G.P.M. Luyten Summary Dit proefschrift heeft betrekking op de implantatie van de iris-gefixeerde Artisan lens voor correctie van een (hoge) brilsterkte bij volwassenen. Een lange follow-up van deze patiënten in de afgelopen decennia heeft ons waardevolle kennis opgeleverd rondom het proces vanaf…

SAVE THE DATE OPENING EXHIBTION FINDING HAPPINESS IN THE SOFT SPOTS It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the Royal Academy of Art on Friday 20 May for the opening of the exhibition Finding Happiness in the Soft Spots. The exhibition shows works by the students of Practicum Artium, a joint…

During the lecture, an outline will be given of the major research questions in the atmospheric climate domain, and their importance for air quality and climate policy. Further, the satellite measurement technique will be explained, and what these measurements can bring for as well research as climate…

Lecture

How do societies move forward with sustainable, effective and efficient management of Earth's water resources?

Prof. W.C. Peul Summary: Hoewel de behandelmogelijkheden voor patiënten met een kwaadaardige hersentumor zijn verbeterd in de afgelopen jaren, blijft het een ongeneselijke ziekte met een gemiddelde overleving in orde van maanden na diagnose. De nauwe balans tussen de baten en risico’s van behandeling…

Lecture, Conversation