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Europe Hub MA thesis prize awarded to Federica Antoniani16 December 2024Federica Antoniani is the recipient of the very first MA thesis prize awarded by Leiden University’s Europe Hub. She received the prize for her thesis...
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Leiden Bio Science Park fastest growing of the larger campuses in the Netherlands10 December 2024Of the 900 new companies that have set up shop on the Netherlands’ largest campuses since 2018, 194 chose Leiden. This makes the Leiden Innovation Dis...
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How can the law influence migration, asylum, integration? LL.M. in Governance of Migration and Diversity10 December 2024Are you considering doing a master’s degree in 2025? Join our Governance of Migration and Diversity (LL.M.) Online Webinar on 16 December!
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Shocks in space: student Adriaan explores the universe around protostars09 December 2024Protostars, data science, and the James Webb Space Telescope—Adriaan Janssen’s curiosity knows no bounds. As a double bachelor’s student in Physics an...
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How a bachelor’s student contributed to better chemical simulations09 December 2024Doğukan Yilmaz chose a study that aligned with his favourite subjects, and it paid off. For his bachelor thesis, he developed a new model to better pr...
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Can you design super-smart materials with long-term memory that are capable of learning?09 December 2024That was the question physics and mathematics bachelor’s student Daan de Bos set out to explore during his thesis research. Applying machine learning ...
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Europe’s evolving role in global security06 December 2024How is the EU transforming from a soft power to a geopolitical actor, and what does this mean for the EU’s partners and global security? On Friday 13 ...
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Energy as a weak spot: a new approach to tackle aggressive breast cancer?06 December 2024Could we stop cancer cells by cutting off their energy supply? That’s what Dione Blok, a bachelor’s student in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences, aimed to f...
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Bart Schuurman appointed Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence05 December 2024Terrorism expert Bart Schuurman has been appointed professor at Leiden University. As a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Security and Globa...
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Results of the National Student Survey: Lecturers highly rated05 December 2024The results of the National Student Survey (NSE) are now available. In 2024, students from the Faculty of Humanities were satisfied across the board. ...
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)05 December 2024In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a c...
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Michael Kowalski appointed as Professor by special appointment at Leiden University04 December 2024Michael Kowalski has been appointed as part-time Professor by special appointment of Applied Ethics in Intelligence and Security at the Institute of S...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan appointed as adjunct professor at Wuhan University03 December 2024Dr Tanja Masson-Zwaan, assistant professor at the International Institute of Air and Space Law, recently visited four universities and a research inst...
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Launch of LDE Space & Society Honours: ‘I hope students learn they need each other’29 November 2024Connecting space to society and gaining problem-solving experience: that’s the goal of LDE Space & Society, a new honours programme for bachelor’s stu...
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‘A good teacher always has multiple ways to explain the same concept’29 November 2024Assistant professor Joost Willemse firmly believes that as a teacher, you’re never done learning. ‘Students ask questions about things you’ve never th...