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 ...

Teylers professor dr. Eric Jorink holds the special chair ‘Enlightenment and religion in historical perspective'. He is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute (KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of ...

News 01 December 2025Five Leiden contributions to NWO Perspectief projects 12 August 2025Award for a method that can create even better algorithms 01 August 2025New project explores how engineers and ...

Cognitive psychology is the study of cognitive functions such as attention, memory, consciousness, emotion, language and action control. The goal is to understand the complex relationships between ...

Eiko obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the Free University of Berlin, followed by four years of postdoctoral training in methodology at KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam. He returned to ...

Dr Mariana Françozo is an Associate Professor of Museum Studies at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She is primarily interested in understanding the impact of Brazilian Indigenous ...

Emotions research meets European studies: a systematic literature review and future research agenda Seda Gürkan, Cesare Figari Barberis & Jaroslaw Kantorowicz ...

I am an historian of the visual arts and material culture of Japan. My research addresses the interaction of images and text in the narrative scroll tradition and in printed media in early modern ...

Frits Rosendaal is professor at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology in the LUMC, which department he chaired from 1999 to 2024. His research is into causes of cardiovascular disease. In 2003 he ...

Since 2009, the Minerva Scholarship Fund Foundation (MSF) has provided Leiden University students of all disciplines with scholarships for exceptional or prestigious study and research projects abroad ...

Do you want to conduct policy-oriented research on issues that matter to organisations? Are you interested in combining ethnographic research with a three-month internship? Do you have excellent ...

Matthew Canfield is a cultural anthropologist with a background in socio-legal studies. His research sits at the intersection of human rights, global governance, and environmental politics, focusing ...