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These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of ScienceThe Faculty of Science has received no less than seven Veni grants this year. Camila Correa, Max van Duijn, Stéphanie van der Pas, Sergii Pud, Mónica ...
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Hubertus Irth named Interim Dean of the Faculty of ScienceThe Executive Board has appointed Professor Hubertus Irth as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. Professor Irth will take up ...
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Six Computer Science master students excel and go to OxfordSix master students of the Computer Science programme will present their papers on future cities at the NetMob conference in Oxford. The six papers we...
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Detecting and comparing sign languagesFor his PhD project, computer scientist Manolis Fragkiadakis is developing a tool that can compare videos of sign language corpora. This would make it...
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A digital eye for archaeologistsWouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Su...
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Building a bridge between data science and the social and behavioural sciencesWhat is the best living environment for dementia patients? To answer this question, Daniela Gawehns is using data mining methods to search through dif...
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The patient forum as a goldminePatients with certain diseases discuss their experiences and support one another on specialised internet forums. With the right data-science methods, ...
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Searching for 27 million patterns in 6,000 tax treatiesPhD candidate Manon Wintgens is using an algorithm to trawl through thousands of international tax treaties. She hopes to detect a system in the dizzy...
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Self-learning machines for better understanding of the universeBright explosions appear all over the radio and gravitational-wave sky. This dynamic side of the universe which has just been discovered, can be mappe...
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Student team hopes to heal skin with squid proteinEleven ambitious Leiden students hope to heal burns with a special substance from squid teeth. They are taking part in the international iGEM competit...
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Yoga, inclusiveness and dilemma game at first Science PhD DayMorning yoga, having your resumé checked at the information market, or dancing for inclusiveness: just a small selection of the activities of the firs...
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LIACS part of Horizon 2020 project about social media analyticsSince January 2019, The Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science is part of the RISE_SMA project. In this European project 6 universities, in co...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of EcologyProfessor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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The mission of Felienne Hermans‘A woman with a mission’. In this honourable way, Dean Geert de Snoo described computer scientist Felienne Hermans at the official opening of her new ...
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These are the five Leiden highlights of ICT.OPENThe ICT.OPEN conference had no less than five Leiden highlights. PhD candidate Anna Louise Latour won the pitch prize of 500 euros and PhD candidate C...