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Bart Custers appointed as the new chair Law and Data ScienceAs of 1 July 2019, Bart Custers is appointed as Professor of Law and Data Science at Leiden University. The chair is established at eLaw, the center f...
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Historian Jeroen Duindam receives Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences first classOn June 14th, Jeroen Duindam, Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities, was awarded an exceptionally high distinction for his achievements in...
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Leiden University College to receive funding for diversity projectThe Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven revealed on Thursday 13 June 2019 which projects will receive funding from the ...
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Dr. Kabir Duggal awarded the "2018 Academic Prize" by CEPANI
Dr. Kabir Duggal, who recently obtained his PhD at Leiden University, was awarded the "2018 Academic Prize" by CEPANI (the Belgian Centre for Arbitrat...
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Wout Broekema on shortlist Els Witte PrizeWout Broekema is shortlisted for the Els Witte Prize 2019, an award for best Doctoral dissertation in political science. The prize is instated by the ...
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MA Translation awarded European Master’s in Translation labelThe MA Linguistic’s specialization in Translation has now been admitted to the prestigious European Masters in Translation (EMT) Network.
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Rick Honings receives Vidi grant for Voicing the ColonyUniversity lecturer of modern Dutch literature Rick Honings, associated with the Faculty of Humanities, has received a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. Th...
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Wilco van Dijk NIAS-KNAW fellowWilco van Dijk has been awarded a NIAS Individual Fellowship, which allow researchers to work on a project of their own choosing for a 5- or 10-month ...
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Leiden political scientist Tom Louwerse obtains Vidi grant for research on government-opposition cooperation in parliamentTom Louwerse, lecturer and researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, has been awarded a NWO Vidi grant. This will enable him t...
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Dorota Mokrosinska receives Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at PrincetonDorota Mokrosinska, University Lecturer of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy has been selected for a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty ...
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Alessandra Silvestri wins Vidi for understanding the universeAlessandra Silvestri, a cosmologist at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), has been awarded an NWO Vidi grant for understanding the expanding univ...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchersFrom artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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Andy Sorensen's Scientific Reports article in top 100 most readThe research article ‘Neanderthal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis’ received 7,053 article views in 2018, placing it as one of ...
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Astronomer Jos de Boer receives Chesneau Prize for best dissertationAstronomer Jos de Boer has received the Chesneau Prize in Nice for his research into so-called protoplanetary disks. The prize is awarded to the best ...
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Ingrid Leijten guest professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in GermanyThis semester, Ingrid Leijten is appointed as a guest professor at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).