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Joost Batenburg new professor for SAILSSAILS started the new year with a new professor. Joost Batenburg will join the SAILS team with his expertise in Imaging and Visualisation. This makes ...
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2019 Hall of fameOver the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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New water jet cutter for Fine Mechanical DepartmentThe Fine Mechanical Department's (FMD) new Wardjet A0612 will cut anything using a 4000 bar water jet. This enables the FMD to work faster, more accur...
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Amanda Foks receives ERA-CVD consortium grantAmanda Foks (Division of BioTherapeutics) has been awarded a Horizon 2020, ERA-CVD joint transnational cardiovascular research grant. She will lead a ...
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Ten million euros for unlocking novel technologies in structural biologyThe European Union has invested ten million euros in the so-called iNEXT-Discovery consortium. The goal of this new consortium is to enable European r...
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Ilze Bot receives prestigious grant from the Dutch Heart FoundationJust before Christmas, three talented scientists received good news: they are receiving a personal research grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation. Ilz...
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Parade of creative science communication productsFrom bedtime stories about mathematics to podcasts about microplastics and games on weeds: master students from the Science Communication & Society tr...
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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next levelEarly December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Canal Cups project 59th in Trouw newspaper’s Sustainable 100Canal Cups, Auke-Florian Hiemstra and Liselotte Rambonnet’s project to rid Leiden of disposable plastic cups and its canals of litter, has taken 59th ...
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Students make podcasts about micro- and bioplasticsFour Master's students Science Communication & Society made two podcasts on the theme Plastic for the end project of their study programme. With the p...
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Tsinghua and Leiden researchers find that China is crucial for realising a circular economyA new study on the province level material footprint of China underscores the need to improve resource efficiency in the country, which would be cruci...
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Working better with LEAN: Faculty of Science works on changeKeep improving: that’s the philosophy of LEAN, a method to tackle practical problems at the workplace yourself. After a successful start in 2017, in 2...
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NWO grant for optimal design of complex and distributed cyber-physical systemsNWO awarded a grant for novel research on Complex and Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The grant will fund a four-year research project in wh...
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Detecting pediatric cancer with bacteriaAriane Briegel wants to use bacteria to detect cancer at an early stage. Together with postdoc Alise Muok, she is developing a method to quickly and c...
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Dana Rademaker excels and wins Unilever Research PrizeDana Rademaker has won the Unilever Research Prize, which she received together with 2,500 euros at the Unilever’s Foods Innovation Centre on 12 Decem...