The Institute of Political Science is a vibrant department with nearly 70 academic staff in Leiden and nearby The Hague. Tracing its origins back to the appointment of the world’s first chair in ...

International Studies is a Leiden University Bachelor of Arts programme that provides students with the tools to investigate globalisation, and its regional effects, from a humanities perspective.

During my PhD with Prof. Dr. H. Linnartz (Laboratory for Astrophysics, Leiden University) I have worked on experimental surface astrochemistry using ultra-high vacuum and cryogenic technology in order ...

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) was founded in 2010 as the international Honours College of Leiden University. It offers a unique, innovative Liberal Arts & Sciences undergraduate programme ...

The Department of Archaeological Sciences seeks to achieve the highest standards of excellence in science-driven education and archaeological research across the globe and across all periods.

Esther van Ginneken is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University. Previously, she worked at Liverpool Hope University. She obtained her PhD from the ...

A new material that produces movement patterns repeating in space and time, powered without external beat. A team of physicists from Amsterdam, Leiden and the UK published their unique design in ...

In de steden gebeurt het! Steden hebben al eeuwen een magische aantrekkingskracht en het zal niet lang meer duren of 70% van de wereldbevolking woont in een stad. Dat brengt ook de nodige uitdagingen: ...

News 14 October 2026A new material that spontaneously moves back-and-forth, forming crystal-like patterns 03 September 2025100 Years of Spin and Lorentz Medal Award Ceremony 02 June 2022Wim van ...

In this research project child language phonology is studied from the perspective of both a phonological grammar and a psycholinguistic speech-production model. The central idea is that the ...

Wij bestuderen de dagelijkse praktijk van individuen, groepen en gemeenschappen - zowel in Nederland als wereldwijd - om ze te plaatsen binnen de complexe processen van sociale en globale ontwikkeling ...

Joost Broekens studies Artificial Intelligence, in particular Affective Computing and the interaction between humans and socially interactive agents. He is the President Elect of the Association for ...