Leiden University

Key Staff

Niels van Willigen (coordinator)

Karolina Pomorska

Nicolas Blarel

Leiden University was founded in 1575 and is one of the leading international research universities in Europe. It has seven faculties and a campus in both Leiden and The Hague. Its motto is Praesidium Libertatis – Bastion of Freedom.

The five disciplinary clusters in which Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical Center excel are:

Fundamentals of Science
Life Sciences
Health and Wellbeing
Law, Politics and Administration
Languages, Cultures and Societies

The University’s academic partners in the province of Zuid-Holland are Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within Europe, Leiden University works intensively with the other members of the League of European Research Universities (LERU).