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Koen Bastiaans wins first Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize. 13 November 2020
The winner of the Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize 2020 is Koen Bastiaans. He carried out his PhD research in the group of Milan Allan an...
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Vidi research grant for physicist Daniela Kraft 04 November 2020
The image of the Leiden microboat traveled all over the world, from the BBC up to Arab shipping blogs. But Daniela Kraft's research group has quite a ...
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3D printed microboat 21 October 2020
From prow to stern, this little boat measures 30 micrometers, about a third of the thickness of a hair. It has been 3D-printed by Leiden physicists Ra...
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Aarts and Beenakker elected APS Fellow 29 September 2020
Physicists Carlo Beenakker and Jan Aarts have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. Carlo Beenakker: 'People acknowledge your contrib...
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Superconductivity with a twist explained 28 September 2020
Leiden physicists and international colleagues from Geneva and Barcelona have confirmed the mechanism that makes magic-angle graphene superconducting....
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Interview with Alexandre Morin 17 September 2020
Alexandre Morin is a new associate professor at LION, who will be researching active matter.
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Six Months, Six Strings 04 August 2020
KM3NeT is a giant undersea neutrino detector, being deployed in the Mediterreanean Sea. Recently, it hit a six-fold milestone, celebrated with a fitti...
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How microscopic scallops wander 26 July 2020
All microscopic objects, from enzymes to paint particles, are jittering constantly, bombarded by solvent particles: this is called Brownian motion. Ho...
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Subodh Patil researches gravitational waves in the universe 30 June 2020
Video interview with Subodh Patil, the new assistant professor in Theoretical Cosmology, about the gravitational waves, hidden universes, music, and w...
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Finding the cause of memory loss 02 June 2020
Memory loss and confusion are signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists Serge Rombouts and Martina Huber have developed new methods to help medical sci...
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Probing the secret forces of pericytes 28 May 2020
Leiden researchers found a way to measure the tiny forces exerted by pericytes, one of the most elusive, hard to research cell types, which occur in t...
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Shell works with Leiden and VU researchers on quantum computer algorithms for chemistry 26 May 2020
Shell cooperates with theoretical physicists and chemists of Leiden University to research how quantum computer algorithms can help simulate complex m...
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund 19 May 2020
The projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific act...
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Discoverer of the Year Irene Battisti wants to see the invisible 07 May 2020
Irene Battisti is the discoverer of the year 2019. The physicist won the C.J. Kok Public Award for her research into microscopy and superconductors.
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Anne Meeussen wins Young Speakers' Contest 17 April 2020
Anne Meeussen is the winner of the Fysica 2020 Young Speakers' Contest. She was elected by the online attendants after delivering a talk about metamat...