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Journalists, online media professionals and researchers come together for second edition of MISDOOM26 October 2020With over 200 participants, the first day of the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) was a grea...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research23 October 2020The origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...
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Sport Data Center appointed as Certified Partner of Sportinnovator12 October 2020The Sport Data Center, a consortium of universities of which Leiden University is leader, is recognised as a Certified Partner of Sportinnovator. This...
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LIACS part of European consortium to boost industrial quantum computing05 October 2020The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) is a proud member of the NExt ApplicationS of Quantum Computing (NEASQC) consortium, which r...
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New online national platform Sport Data Valley connects science and sport14 September 2020A consortium of knowledge institutes, led by Leiden University launched an online platform for analysis and research of sports and movement data on 7 ...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting07 September 2020From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Computers help wood anatomists with wood identification07 September 2020The most commonly used method for the taxonomic identification of tree trunks is wood anatomy. The number of experts in this area is decreasing, and e...
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Data science at the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration24 July 2020How can data science improve tax administration? Mark Pijnenburg, a senior data scientist at the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration, decided t...
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New database brings structure to global fungal diversity10 July 2020An organized overview of the current global fungal diversity, that is what Irene Martorelli and colleagues try to achieve with the new MycoDiversity D...
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Brand-new professor Gerard van Westen wants to cross boundaries16 June 2020Brand-new professor Gerard van Westen works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and drug development. For the new chair in Artificial Intel...
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Bridging the gap between databases and data science08 June 2020In relational databases you can store information and data without losing the relationships between those data. They are therefore useful tools for co...
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Digital infrastructure for research into the social network of the full Dutch population05 June 2020An interdisciplinary consortium consisting of Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), receives €1 mill...
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Nele Mentens joins LIACS as Professor of Applied Cryptography & Data Security03 June 2020Finding solutions for economically and socially relevant problems in digital data security. That is what Nele Mentens, Professor of Applied Cryptograp...
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Finding unique drug structures with artificial intelligence and chemistry26 May 2020In the search for new medicines against diseases such as cancer, a Leiden team has developed a new workflow. This approach combines artificial intelli...
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More efficient drug development with the help of computer models19 May 2020The coronavirus has the world in its grip. Finding a cure has never been more important. Unfortunately, the development of new drugs for treatment of ...