News
-
Ingrid Leijten gives lecture at Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-NurembergOn 21 June, Ingrid Leijten gave a lecture at the Centre for Human Rights of the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) in Germany. ...
-
Bart Custers delivers keynote address on ransomwareOn June 16th, dr. Bart Custers, associate professor and head of research of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital technologies, delivered a keynote add...
-
Monitoring the development of foster childrenFoster children’s behaviour is more problematic than that of their peers in ‘normal’ family situations. However, it is difficult to determine the exac...
-
Leiden celebrates tenth anniversary of ERCThe European Research Council, better known as the ERC, turns ten this year, and researchers from Leiden celebrated this 23 June. The ERC is an import...
-
Large media attention for Spinoza Prize Michel OrritAn important award like the Spinoza Prize, the 'Dutch Nobel Prize', generates lots of media attention. An overview.
-
Cosmic recipe discovered for making glycerolA team of laboratory astrophysicists from Leiden University managed to make glycerol under conditions comparable to those in dark interstellar clouds....
-
The cognitive abilities of birdsThe recently published book ‘Avian Cognition’ is the first multi-author book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the cognitive abilities of birds ...
-
Prof. Visser reappointed as LUCAS Academic DirectorOn Tuesday 20 June 2017, the Humanities Faculty Board decided to reappoint Prof. Anthonya Visser as Academic Director of Leiden University Centre for ...
-
Research proposal focused on the topic of military operations wins this year’s research conferenceIn the course ‘Research Design CSM’ Dr. Elke Devroe and Moniek Akerboom organized this year a competitive research conference where students of the Ma...
-
Signing off after two yearsWhat do you do when you never got the chance to sign your name in the Sweat Room after graduation? Alumni Brantly Hancock and Kent Moore from the U.S....
-
Cancer research focusing on quality of lifeCancer is one of the main causes of death in the Netherlands. Leiden researchers are working to improve the treatment of different types of cancer in ...
-
The garden of Eden is AfricaAmazing discoveries by Jean Jacques Hublin of Early modern Humans in Morocco.
-
Melanie Fink speaks on Frontex at ‘Open Doors’ Summer School in NaplesOn Sunday 18 June 2017 Melanie Fink, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Europa Institute, held a lecture on Schengen and the new European Border and Coast...
-
Last ILS Lunch Seminar before summer!During this lunch seminar series all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what ...
-
Taking Technological Infrastructure SeriouslyOn 29 June 2017, Carl Mair will defend his PhD dissertation “Taking Technological Infrastructure Seriously”. The defence will commence at 13.45 hrs, i...