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New professor Vedran Dunjko finds real-world problems that a quantum computer can solve02 November 2023When he started high school, his brother gave him an advanced book on quantum computing. That's when he knew what he wanted to pursue. Since 1 October...
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Thomas Bäck and Hao Wang new Editors in chief of the Evolutionary Computation Journal02 November 2023LIACS scholars Thomas Bäck and Hao Wang will be the new Editors-in-Chief of the Evolutionary Computation Journal from November 1. Published by MIT Pre...
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Hadassah Drukarch receives prestigious 2023 Brinkhof Internet Thesis Award31 October 2023We are proud to share that Hadassah Drukarch, a graduate of our Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies (class of 2022-2023), has been honored ...
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Freya Baetens delivers inaugural lecture: “The EU’s Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI): lawful international countermeasures or violation of the WTO regime?”31 October 2023Following her appointment to the Chair in EU External Economic Law earlier this year, Prof. dr. Freya Baetens addressed the academic community of Leid...
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AI Lab launched for effective and responsible supervision30 October 2023How can you increase the effectiveness of inspectors using responsible artificial intelligence (AI)? This is the question the Innovation Center for Ar...
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‘When a student sees the light, that’s what fulfills me’26 October 2023'Education has always been something I am very interested in,' says the passionate Michiel Hogerheijde. He was already chairman of the astronomy progr...
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Congratulations, Dr. André Brasil!26 October 2023On 24 October 2023, André Brasil Varantes Pinto successfully defended his PhD thesis at Leiden University.
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Jim Been new PhD Dean - 'I hope to alleviate certain pressures that PhD candidates might feel'25 October 2023The Associate Professor at the Institute of Tax Law and Economics is one of two PhD deans at Leiden Law School and started in this position on 1 Octob...
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Koenraad Schalm new Programme Director of the Physics master25 October 2023Koenraad Schalm will be the new programme director of the Physics master starting 1 November. He has been appointed for a period of four years. Schalm...
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Suzan Stoter new Dean of Leiden Law School24 October 2023Prof. Suzan Stoter will be the Dean of Leiden Law School at Leiden University as of 1 January 2024. The Leiden University Executive Board has appointe...
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Policing as the dominant theme in Saniye Çelik’s career: from police officer to Professor of Diversity and Inclusion24 October 2023She started her career in the police force, walking the beat as an officer. Now she has been installed as Professor by Special Appointment of Diversit...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri appointed to the Programme Committee of PLSC19 October 2023Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Board member at eLaw, has been appointed to the Programme Committee of PLSC, the Privacy Law Scho...
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Honouring a mathematical legacy: Edixhoven fellow tries to understand millennia-old problems19 October 2023Not all problems are easy to solve, but with enough bright minds, you make progress step by step. ‘The kind of problems I am interested in have been o...
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together12 October 2023Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October...
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Elena Maria Rossi continues her search for the origins of the largest black holes, but now as a professor09 October 2023Elena Maria Rossi is fascinated by black holes. Her appointment as a professor was a long-held wish, partly because there are so few female professors...