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Students seek sustainable solutions for businesses 10 January 2023
A 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 euros 09 January 2023
Leiden 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 thesis 06 January 2023
He 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 thesis 06 January 2023
For 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 2023
Alex 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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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023
Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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'This course is a simulation of your professional work as an astronomer' 03 January 2023
What 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 2023
Starting 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 nanoparticles 03 January 2023
How 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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Best presentation award for Andreea Nadaban at European congress 03 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 2023
Martina 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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What do surgeons have in common? Their personality unravelled 23 December 2022
Open, extravert, agreeable, stress-tolerant and conscientious. These are the character traits of surgeons according to research by Vincent Sier and Jo...
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Why electric vehicle batteries are good and bad for the environment 20 December 2022
The large-scale production of batteries for electric vehicles diminishes the emission reductions achieved by driving electric vehicles. Industrial eco...
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Helping cancer patients with treatment choices 20 December 2022
Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are collaborating on the development of a conversation tool for patients with...
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Researchers from Leiden University have received awards in Nationaal Groeifonds Quantum Technology programme 20 December 2022
Three researchers from Leiden University have received awards in the Quantum Technology programme within the National Growth Fund, organised by NWO i...