News
-
Stefano Polla wins Lorentz Master thesis award 26 November 2019
Stefano Pollas master thesis 'Quantum Digital Cooling' has been awarded the Lorentz Master thesis award. The award, 3000 euros and a certificate, has ...
-
Jorinde van de Vis wins For Women in Science Rising Talent prize 21 November 2019
Jorinde van de Vis wins the For Women in Science Rising Talent-prize for women in science, for her PhD thesis in cosmology and particle physics.
-
How an Alzheimer related protein forms plaques 08 November 2019
Neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, are characterised by aggregates of protein in the brain. The connection of these aggregates to the...
-
Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize 07 October 2019
Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
-
The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technology 17 September 2019
State secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
-
Stacked graphene layers act as a mirror for electron beams 19 August 2019
Stacked layers of graphene can act like a mirror for beams of electrons. Physicists Daniël Geelen and colleagues discovered this using a new type of e...
-
NWA grant for research into iron nanoparticles in the brain 23 July 2019
Physicists Lucia Bossoni and Martina Huber have been awarded an NWA Ideeëngenerator-grant for research into iron nanoparticles in the brain. These nan...
-
Cum laude physicist Tom O’Brien to research quantum chemistry by quantum computers 20 June 2019
With defending his thesis ‘Applications of topology to Weyl semimetals and quantum computing’, the Leiden theoretical physicist Tom O'Brien has gained...
-
The most stable microscope in the world 07 May 2019
Making the most vibration-free, cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope in the world. A bold mission, but one that PhD candidate Irene Battisti succes...
-
Supercurrents gone chiral: new type of superconducting junction 21 December 2018
Unconventional superconductors form one of the big mysteries in physics. Among them is strontium ruthenate, which stands out as a controversial superc...
-
Aarts and Cheianov receive NWO Physics Projectruimte 21 December 2018
NWO has granted Jan Aarts en Vadim Cheianov a Physics Projectruimte, a granting instrument for small-scale projects that propose innovative fundamenta...
-
Leiden involved in three out of five Physics Vrije Programma grants 21 December 2018
NWO has assigned Physics Vrije Programma grants to five collaborations of physicists. Leiden University is involved in three of them.
-
HTSM grant for physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp 19 December 2018
This header image was once elected Image of the Week by De Volkskrant and won second place in the LION Image Award. The research behind it is no less ...
-
PhD candidate makes predictions on production and detection of sterile neutrinos 14 November 2018
Physicists propose the existence of sterile neutrinos that would explain three big mysteries in nature. To actually find them in particle accelerators...
-
Bending DNA costs less energy than assumed 09 November 2018
The way DNA folds, largely determines which genes are read out. John van Noort and his group have quantified how easily rolled-up DNA parts stack. Thi...