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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros09 January 2023Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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Psychology Awards 202209 January 2023Psychology teacher of the year is Roy de Kleijn. The Master Thesis Awards are for Roosmarijn Goldbach en Matija Čuljak. Jeffrey Durieux receives the P...
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Madouc Bergers made her own enzyme inhibitors for her bachelor’s thesis06 January 2023For her bachelor’s thesis, Molecular Science and Technology student Madouc Bergers synthesized her own molecule that can inhibit the breakdown of suga...
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Mathematics student Alex Colling: ‘Bachelor’s thesis was highlight of my time in Leiden’06 January 2023Alex Colling himself calls his bachelor's thesis ‘the highlight of his time in Leiden’. And according to his supervisors, that resulted in an outstand...
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'This course is a simulation of your professional work as an astronomer'03 January 2023What if I completely changed everything? A subject without lectures or exams, where the right answer is not important and where students work with the...
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'I always consider: What would have worked best for me?'03 January 2023Starting with the ‘why’, putting herself in her students’ shoes and providing structure. These are three ways in which environmental scientist Ranran ...
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Best presentation award for Andreea Nadaban at European congress03 January 2023
A starring role for PhD candidate Andreea Nadaban during the annual meeting of the European Epidermal Barrier Research Network. With her talk about th...
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'This is the very best course there is'02 January 2023Martina Vijver has been nominated as Teacher of the Year of the Faculty of Science. She gets this nomination for the course Ecotoxicology she taught i...
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Researchers from Leiden University have received awards in Nationaal Groeifonds Quantum Technology programme20 December 2022Three researchers from Leiden University have received awards in the Quantum Technology programme within the National Growth Fund, organised by NWO i...
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Awards, grants, and special appointments: 2022’s Honours Gallery19 December 2022Over the past year, many students and staff members of Leiden Law School have been lauded for their extraordinary achievements. For instance: a grant ...
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Wei Chu receives SNMAP funding for dating earliest dwelling structures in Ukraine19 December 2022At some point in the deep past the first known dwelling structures were built out of mammoth bones in a country we now know as Ukraine. Archaeologist ...
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Leiden insolvency thesis wins annual BUREN thesis prize16 December 2022On 23 November 2022, the BUREN Thesis Prize on Insolvency Law was awarded for the fifth time. This year, two Leiden theses were nominated for this pri...
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Charlotte Parree wins Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award16 December 2022Charlotte Parree won the Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Prize on Tuesday afternoon, 6 December, with her thesis entitled 'Suffering knows no age; ...
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Max van Duijn and Vasiliki Kosta join The Young Academy13 December 2022Leiden researchers Max van Duijn (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) and Vasilika Kosta (Leiden Law School, Europa Institute) will join Th...
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Rachel Beckles Willson appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Music is interwoven with the big questions of our time’13 December 2022Rachel Beckles Willson started her career as a concert pianist but was later captivated by the Middle Eastern stringed instrument called the oud. On 1...