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Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers25 March 2024The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on imp...
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Wouter Kalf and Niels van Doesum win a Seed Grant19 March 2024To support interdisciplinary research on today's world-scale changes and governing challenges, the GTGC programme awards a number of seed grants to sc...
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Santino Regilme Wins International Studies Association's Best Book in Human Rights - Honorable Mention, 2023-202414 March 2024Salvador Santino Regilme received an honorable mention from the Human Rights Section at the International Studies Association (ISA) for his book, Aid ...
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Fieldwork NL on au pairs and thesis on public policy win Speckmann Awards 202412 March 2024‘The care of an au pair' is chosen as the best Fieldwork NL report and 'The unruly reality of a new government' as the best master's thesis. Lila van ...
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Sigrid Kaag avant la lettre: Women played a significant role in eighteenth-century diplomacy07 March 2024With her Veni research, investigator Rosanne Baars from the Institute of History aims to demonstrate that women played a role in the eighteenth-centur...
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'06 March 2024When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Ed...
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play05 March 2024A team with Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage. They are resea...
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Plant stress increases: New research with bacteria offers hope04 March 2024Soil that is too wet, or too dry. Or with a lot or few nutrients. Due to climate change, the differences are becoming bigger, and plants must increasi...
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And the winner is… Results of the annual physics image competition04 March 2024Salt crystals, a nano-sized golf stick and molten glass. The LION Image Award competition of 2023 yielded a lot of beautiful images once again. But in...
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DSM-firmenich award now for best MSc graduate, best doctorate, and most promising start-up01 March 2024Since 2020, the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Award has been annually presented by dsm-firmenich for the best master's or doctoral research at the Faculty o...
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University29 February 2024From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the...
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Gerrard Boot moves to Central Appeals Tribunal26 February 2024As of 1 October 2024, Professor Gerrard Boot, Senior Justice at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, will transfer to the Central Appeals Tribunal. He has a...
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KNAW Early Career Award for Alisa van de Haar: ‘I want to take a more positive approach to migration and multilingualism’22 February 2024Alisa van de Haar is one of three humanities scholars to win a KNAW Early Career Award this year. The university lecturer of Ancient French Literature...
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ERC Consolidator grant for Alessandra Silvestri: putting gravity to the test on cosmological scales20 February 2024Does gravity work the same when you look at the largest scales in our universe? That’s what Leiden physicist Alessandra Silvestri will study with a 2 ...
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What drives humans? How Mariska Kret manages to touch science with her emotion research20 February 2024In zoos, at festivals and in a mobile lab at the market: everywhere, Mariska Kret tries to understand human and animal emotions with her distinctive b...