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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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Four Leiden contributions to NWO Perspectief projectsGrant awarded 01 December 2025Four consortia within the Perspectief programme that include Leiden researchers have received funding to start their research projects. These projects...
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Which algorithm solves which problem? Diederick Vermetten developed methods to find outDOCTORAL RESEARCH 19 November 2025Algorithms solve problems. But which algorithm is best suited to which problem? During his doctoral research, Diederick Vermetten developed methods to...
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Using AI to track greenhouse gas emissionsCOMPUTER SCIENCE & SPACE RESEARCH 11 November 2025PhD candidate Julia Wąsala searches for greenhouse gas emissions in satellite data. As a computer scientist, she bridges the gap between computer scie...
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Gaming your way through a PhD: 'Studying games is not just cool, it's important'PHD RESEARCH 28 October 2025Studying video games for your PhD research. It might sound unlikely, yet it is exactly what PhD candidates Giulio Barbero and Matthias Müller-Brockhau...
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‘If you understand the risks, AI is an incredible tool’Artificial intelligence 16 October 2025Thomas Moerland studied medicine and mathematics in Leiden and has a lifelong fascination with the origins and workings of intelligence. He brought al...
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Flying pencil links Leiden and The Hague at launch of new degree programmesLeiden University celebrates start of academic year with new programmes in The Hague 02 September 2025It was a memorable start to September. While Leiden marked the opening of the academic year, The Hague celebrated the launch of three new degree progr...
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Leiden joins EU effort to unite Europe’s cancer research networks01 September 2025The more data from cancer research we pool, the better we can search for new treatments. But how can we keep patient data safe when sharing it? Leiden...
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Experiment: Leiden University student writes thesis with just AI tools for supervisionEducation 21 August 2025As an experiment, student Alicia Cai relied solely on AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude for supervision while writing her thesis. It was only after ...
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Award for a method that can create even better algorithms12 August 2025She develops algorithms that outperform leading optimization techniques and can be applied in many fields. For this work, Niki van Stein and her team ...
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New project explores how engineers and AI can truly work together01 August 2025What if AI doesn’t just support engineers, but actually works alongside them? A large consortium, including Leiden University, gets 3.7 million euros....
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This platform is making machine learning more transparent and accessibleChangemakers 21 July 2025What began as a PhD project has grown into a website with 120,000 unique visitors each year. With the platform OpenML, researcher Jan van Rijn is cont...
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers17 July 2025Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young resea...
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Vulnerability in open-source code has been floating around for 15 years: ‘This shows how complex security really is’18 June 2025Researchers at LIACS have found a vulnerability in open-source code that’s been used around the world for over 15 years. They’ve also developed an AI-...
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Pushing the boundaries of quantum theoryPHYSICS 16 May 2025Mass, time, space, and complexity — physicists in Leiden are launching eight new research projects tackling some of the most fundamental themes in qua...