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Over €900,000 awarded for new treatment against atherosclerosisgrant FOR AMANDA FOKS 11 December 2025How can we slow down atherosclerosis? Researcher Amanda Foks believes it may be possible by switching off ageing immune cells. This could lead to an e...
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‘Teaching is like a professional sport: you always have to be switched on’Teacher of the Year awards 11 December 2025For a long time, Thijs Bosker was an average student, until he discovered how exciting learning becomes when there are no ready-made answers. To his s...
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‘I’m always proud when a student follows their own interests’Teacher of the Year awards 11 December 2025He is always positive towards his students, helps them see the bigger picture of the programme, and tries to remind them that ‘a degree is an enormous...
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Extraterrestrial life, AI and more: these are the most-read Leiden Science articles of 2025A look back 11 December 2025Speculation about alien life, a new nitrogen map, AI as a thesis supervisor, groundbreaking telescopes and multi-million-euro investments to combat an...
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How science informs policy: ‘As a researcher, my work only becomes truly relevant once it is used in society’IMPACT 11 December 2025Green cities and a well-protected food system: Roy Remme and Oliver Taherzadeh study ways to achieve these. But how can their scientific findings lead...
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‘A last-minute challenge became my biggest breakthrough’Leiden Science Young Talent Award 11 December 2025Data Science & AI student Nataliia Bagan combines a passion for mathematics, language, and artificial intelligence. Her exceptional bachelor’s thesis ...
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‘As long as the logic works, you can do whatever you want’Leiden Science Young Talent Award 11 December 2025With a healthy dose of logic and creativity, mathematics student Lance Bakker shows how computers can prove complex mathematics. His method proves int...
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Eleven Open Competition Domain Science XS grants for Leiden researchersGrant 09 December 2025Eleven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an Open Competition Domain Science ENW XS grant by the Dutch Research Council for their re...
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Triturus newts reveal a genetic balancing actEvolutionary biology 09 December 2025An evolutionary 'trap' that has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that ...
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Answering the biggest questions with the tiniest particlesLeiden Science Young Talent Award 09 December 2025From lectures by Robbert Dijkgraaf to a telescope on the ocean floor: during his double bachelor’s in Physics and Astronomy, Jelle Oonk discovered tha...
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A new window into the brain: visualising neural connectionsPHYSICS 04 December 2025To understand how the brain works, it is essential to map it out in detail. This appears to be possible with a microscopy technique in which Leiden ph...
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NWO and Groeifonds funding for research into smart light-responsive chipsPHYSICS 03 December 2025Physicists at Leiden University are developing smart chips that can be programmed with light. These chips are more energy-efficient than traditional c...
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New endowed chair brings astronomy and AI together. ‘AI can help improve our understanding of the Universe’PROFESSOR BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT 02 December 2025AI helps astronomers to understand our Universe better, and that role is set to grow. Therefore, ASTRON and Leiden University are establishing a new r...
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Bacteria full of potential: searching for new antibiotics through genetic on–off switchesAntibiotics research 02 December 2025Collaborating and learning from other fields – that is what bioinformatician Hannah Augustijn enjoys most about doing research. During her PhD at Leid...
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Sofie Hajer wins prize for research on balancing wind energy and biodiversityUnilever Research Prize 01 December 2025How do you combine the growth of wind energy with the protection of vulnerable seabirds? With her master’s thesis on this delicate balance, Sofie Haje...