Naturalis best museum of Europe 2021
We are so proud! Naturalis Biodiversity Center has been named European Museum of the Year on May 6, during an online ‘award ceremony’. This is the oldest and most prestigious museum award in Europe. Previous winners have included the Victoria and Albert…
Jorinde Nuytinck appointed guest professor
Mycologist Jorinde Nuytinck has been appointed guest professor at Ghent University. “As a kid, I was already interested in plants and animals. My interest in that other kingdom of biology, the fungi, only came when I was studying biology in Ghent. They…
The day of the PhD defence: F. Andrés Rivera-Quiroz
Today at 11:15, Andres Rivera-Quiroz will enter the Academy Building to defend his thesis entitled "Integrative taxonomy of araneomorph spiders: Breathing new life into an old science". For his PhD research at Naturalis and Leiden University, he immersed…
Kevin Beentjes receives PhD on monitoring biodiversity in freshwater
Kevin Beentjes received his PhD on 8 April for his research on monitoring biodiversity in freshwater at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, where he has been working for ten years now. Nowadays he is also involved in the ARISE program, which is perfectly in…
Frederic Lens gets NWO grant for research into island evolution
Evolutionary biologist Frederic Lens (who works both here at Naturalis and at Leiden University) has received a €700,000 research grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). He received the scholarship together with Naturalis…
The day of the PhD defence: Richa Kusuma Wati
In November 2015, Richa Kusuma Wati started her PhD research on wild orchids at Leiden University and Naturalis Biodiversity Center, in collaboration with the Hortus Botanicus Leiden and Bogor Botanic Gardens.Today at a quarter past eleven she will defend…
Research grant for Jan Macher
Naturalis marine biologist Jan Macher has recently earned a BEN research grant worth € 100,000.-. He will be using it to study very small organisms that live in sandy beaches. The Biodiversity-Ecology-Nature grants are awarded by the German Bauer-Hollmann…
Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research
Naturalis researcher Frederic Lens will start in a new position at the Institute for Biology at Leiden University (IBL). This marks an ongoing integration of research into evolution and biodiversity, both at the local and the national level. “In Leiden…
DiSSCo’s first all-hands meeting: how it went
DiSSCo’s first all-hands meeting (AHM1) took place last 18-22 January. The event was a great opportunity for all of us to really look closely into DiSSCo: the scope of the project, its different dimensions, all the activities, the expectations… It was also…