Hall of Fame 2021

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.

Some prizes and grants recognise the achievements of individual researchers, whereas others are the result of academic teamwork. We are proud of all these successes.

Below are the most important prizes, appointments and achievements of our students and staff. For a more detailed overview per faculty, see the right side of the page.

NWO Spinoza Prize

Marc Koper - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
Maria Yazdanbakhsh – Medicine/LUMC, parasitology

NWO Stevin Prize

Judi Mesman – Pedagogical Sciences and Dean of Leiden University College The Hague

Judi Mesman (l) won a Stevin Prize, Marc Koper and Maria Yazdanbakhsh a Spinoza Prize.

European grants

ERC Advanced Grant

Ewine van Dishoeck – Leiden Observatory
Martin van Hecke – Leiden Institute of Physics (LION)
Marc Koper – Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab – Humanities
Andrew Webb – Medicine/LUMC
Hilde De Weerdt – Chinese Studies

Proof of Concept grant

Andrea Evers – Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychology

NWO

Vici

Bart Barendregt – Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Vidi

Anna Alemany – Medicine/LUMC
Louise Jawerth – Leiden Institute of Physics
Vasiliki Kosta – Institute of Public Law (Europa Institute)
Sarah Schrader - Archaeology
Joris van der Voet – Institute of Public Administration
Meta Roestenberg – Medicine/LUMC, Infectious Diseases
Uli Scherer – Medicine/LUMC, Immunology
Anar Ahmadov - Leiden University College The Hague

Anne Urai has been given the opportunity to develop her ideas on how the brain makes choices.

Veni

Michelle Spiering - Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)
Zach Armstrong - Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
Emma Brakkee - Mathematical Institute (MI)
Ko-Ju Chuang - Leiden Observatory
Natalia Ortiz Zacarías - Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)
Anne Urai - Social and Behavioural Sciences
Vera Kemp - Medicine/LUMC
Anne Urai - Social and Behavioural Sciences
Julie Rutten - Medicine/LUMC
Fiamma Salerno - Medicine/LUMC
Kaveh Lahabi - Leiden Institute of Physics

Rubicons

The Rubicons were announced in two parts in 2021. Read more about the laureates here and here.

Edouard Fu is going to Harvard Medical School, United States – LUMC
Lauren Lauret is going to do research at University College London, United Kingdom - Humanities
Cornelia Pabst is going to do research at Instituto de Física Fundamental, Spain - Science
Rianne de Heide is going to Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France - Science
Nick Gerrits is going to the University of Antwerp, Belgium - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
Elliot Mock is going to do research at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom - Science
Arianna Sacco is going to the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria - Humanities
Kamaleddin Tehrani is going to do research at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany - Institute of Biology Leiden (LIC)
Julia Tilburg is going to Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States -Medicine/LUMC
Donggang Wang is going to do research at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - Leiden Observatory
Anne Meeussen is going to do research at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, United States - Leiden Institute of Physics (LION)
A. de Jong is going to the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, United States - Medicine/LUMC

NWO Large Grant

NWO grant for research facility into the impact of environmental factors on health led by Thomas Hankemeier – Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Reasearch (LACDR)

Other NWO grants

Major grant for three consortia in the area of cybersecurity in which Leiden is participating - Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science.

Other national grant

The Quantum Delta NL programme, in which Leiden University is participating, was awarded 615 million euros from the National Growth Fund to help the Netherlands become a leader in quantum technology

KNAW pilot fund for science communication

Peter Burger, Nieuwscheckers: Factchecks as a resource against dis- and misinformation on health and politics - Humanitites
Markus Davidsen, Religious Studies in secondary education - Institute for Area Studies
Yvonne Erkens, Database of Business Ethics: facilitating research into, among others, whether multinationals comply with codes of conduct - Law
Robert Heinsch, Promoting knowledge about international humanitarian law - Law
Maikel Kuijpers, New generation, new archaeology: bringing young people into contact with the archaeology of the 21st century - Archaeology
Jan Melissen, The Hague Diplomacy Platform: on the role of diplomacy in international politics - Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Pedro Russo, Old Observatory: generating public enthusiasm about the different aspects of astronomy - Leiden Observatory
Rebecca Schaefer, Music and space in neuroscience - Psychology
Frans Snik, Innovation in citizen science: iSPEX and Citizen Science Lab - Leiden Observatory
Annelinde Vandenbroucke, #Braintalk: what do you want to know about your brain? - Psychology
Karin van der Tuin, ‘Genetic testing’: the advantages and limitations of DNA research - Medicine/LUMC