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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 ...
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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by Escher30 April 2020Twenty years onwards, in a review of an Escher exhibition in Italy, Nature Physics writes about it again: Leiden mathematicians helping Escher out. A ...
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Hora est through a computer speaker: Leiden’s first fully online PhD defence08 April 2020Samineh Bagheri is the first PhD candidate to defend her thesis fully remotely.
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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AI versus corona02 April 2020It’s all hands on deck at the moment to resolve the COVID-19 crisis. Researchers from various disciplines are helping where they can, also from the fi...