Board of Deans
The deans (chairs of the faculty boards) form the Board of Deans, which is chaired by the Rector Magnificus.
- Chair: Prof. Hester Bijl
- Faculty of Archaeology: Prof. Jan Kolen
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs: Prof. Koen Caminada
- Faculty of Humanities: Prof. Mark Rutgers
- Faculty of Medicine/LUMC: Prof. Marlies Reinders
- Faculty of Law: Prof. Suzan Stoter
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences: Prof. Sarah de Rijcke
- Faculty of Science: Prof. Jasper Knoester
Responsibilities
- Acting as the Doctorate Board: conferring doctorates and honorary doctorates, recognition of co-tutelle and joint doctoral agreements, granting of Ius Doctoral Examinations to non-professors, and decisions on amendments to the Doctoral Degree Regulations
- Collegial – non-decision- making – consultation on teaching and research in the broadest
sense of the word - Advising the Executive Board on the establishment of endowed chairs or externally funded regular chairs
- Advising the Executive Board on promotions to HGL-1
- Advising the Executive Board on awards from the Coryfee fund
- Selection of the annual Cleveringa professor
- Awarding the Scaliger medal, in close discussion with the director of the Leiden University
Library - Planning the celebration of the University’s annual Dies Natalis, including the choice of Dies lecturer(s).