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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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‘Girls can be hackers too’09 February 2023How safe are the dozens of apps on our phone? And how do we make sure organisations don’t get hacked? Cybersecurity expert Olga Gadyatskaya works on a...
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CML talents receive Stans Award07 February 2023Each year, CML gives out three Stans Awards. The Institute's staff could nominate students and colleagues for the prices of best student thesis, best ...
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Leiden astronomers launch biggest space-ice database ever: ‘A kind of phone book, but for ice’19 January 2023It is the largest database for space ice yet: The Leiden Ice Database for Astrochemistry: LIDA. Created by astrophysicists at the Leiden Observatory, ...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council10 January 2023The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Students seek sustainable solutions for businesses10 January 2023A circular water supply for Artis Zoo, sustainable software for the Dutch government and better waste management at a hospital: master’s students in I...
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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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Physics student Hidde Stoffels investigates dark matter in outstanding undergraduate thesis06 January 2023He makes music, goes to the athletics track twice a week and, according to his supervisor, has done his research so well that it would not be out of 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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'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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Improving safety assessment of nanoparticles03 January 2023How safe are the nanoparticles in transparent sunscreen, anti-odour socks and bacteria-resistant plasters? Although microbes are present on all organi...
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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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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories19 December 2022Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...