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Four science professors receive Senior Teaching Qualification certificate 31 January 2022
Out of fifteen Senior Teaching Qualification certificates (SKO) awarded by the University this year, four go to the Faculty of Science. With congratul...
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Measuring skate provides insight into ice-skating technique 28 January 2022
In the future top Dutch speed skaters may skate even faster thanks to a skate full of electronics. This ‘measuring skate’ gives top skaters and coache...
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Horses and Computers - First Year LIACS Student Wins KHMW Prize 18 January 2022
Winning an award at the start of your studies? No problem! Lieke Vertegaal is 20 years old and a first-year Computer Science student at Leiden Univers...
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ESA grant to improve the Earth's 'digital twin' 15 December 2021
Global warming, deforestation, nature conservation. All major environmental challenges that call for major measures. To see what the effects of these ...
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Searching for science in patent texts 06 December 2021
Just like scientific articles, patents cite scientific literature to support their findings. These references provide valuable information on how scie...
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These Science students excelled and won a KHMW Young Talent Prize 06 December 2021
No fewer than seven Leiden FWN students received a Young Talent Award from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences on Monday, 29 November. Mark van den Bo...
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Improving the environment of people with dementia with the help of new software 02 December 2021
Can we improve the living environment of people with dementia with software and smartwatches? Daniela Gawehns did research in a care facility for peop...
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Thomas Bäck appointed to IEEE Fellow 30 November 2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) appointed Professor Thomas Bäck as an IEEE Fellow in the class of 2022. Bäck is becoming ...
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Peter van der Putten on Robo Rabbi and a robot that performs funeral rituals 16 November 2021
Can a robot rekindle the waning interest in Buddhism in Japan? University lecturer Peter van der Putten researches the philosophical and social questi...
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Journal established at LIACS reaches world top 11 November 2021
An impact factor of 3.2 in the Web of Science journal index. And in the first 10% of Elsevier's Scopus index. The International Journal of Multimedia ...
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Leiden researchers work on exhibition about growth addiction 27 October 2021
Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks...
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Google gift for quantum research 20 October 2021
Assistant Professor Vedran Dunjko and his team receive a €100,000 gift from Google to support them in their quantum research. The research focuses on ...
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CLAIRE wins prestigious Artificial Intelligence prize 07 October 2021
AI networks CLAIRE and ELLIS have jointly won the prestigious German Artificial Intelligence prize. The WELT newspaper awarded the prize, worth 100,00...
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Quinten Meertens nominated for Christiaan Huygens Science Prize 2021 05 October 2021
Is it acceptable for an algorithm to make mistakes? Quinten Meertens investigated this at Leiden University and the UvA and has been nominated with hi...
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Quantum Leiden creates potential for a great quantum future 05 October 2021
Friday afternoon, 1 October. Location: one of the most vibration-free places in the world. In this setting, Leiden top scientists launched Quantum Lei...