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In memoriam Vladimír Ponec13 August 2026On 7 August 2026, Prof. Dr Vladimír Ponec, Emeritus Professor of Catalysis at the Faculty of Science, Leiden University, passed away at the age of 93.
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uNMR-NL awarded €3.4 million to future-proof its infrastructure14 July 2026The consortium for ultrahigh field NMR spectroscopy (uNMR) has been awarded €3.4 million by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to modernise its NMR infr...
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Funding for AI and plant research, monitoring nature from space, and moreGrants and appointments for Faculty of Science 08 July 2026Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognis...
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Spinoza Prize for chemical biologist Hermen Overkleeft25 June 2026Professor of Bio-organic Chemistry Hermen Overkleeft develops innovative methods to study disease processes. This increases our understanding of the h...
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Visit by PhD students from The University of Kansas22 June 2026On 26 May 2026, the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) hosted a delegation of PhD students from The University of Kansas. They were visiting our univ...
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Marcellus Ubbink reappointed as Scientific Director of the LICAppoinment 19 June 2026Marcellus Ubbink has been reappointed as Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) until 1 July 2030. ‘In the coming years, I wan...
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Funding for green fertilisers, high-energy particles and a circular power plantGrants and appointments for Faculty of Science 11 June 2026
Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognis...
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NWO Open Technology grant for research into the circular power plantPHYSICS 09 June 2026Leiden professors Dirk Bouwmeester and Irene Groot are jointly investigating the concept of a circular power plant. Research that contributes to new s...
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How bacteria survive with almost no oxygen28 May 2026Researchers in Leiden have, for the first time, observed how a specialised enzyme helps bacteria stay alinve when oxygen levels are low, and how that ...
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Grants for AI in healthcare, computing with light and climate-resilient citiesGrants and appointments for Faculty of Science 28 May 2026
Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognis...
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New clue to severe MS progression: ‘Overloaded cleanup cells’ in the brainNeuroscience 26 May 2026Researcher Daan van der Vliet, together with colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Leiden University and Utrecht University, has...
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Grégory Schneider appointed Professor of Chemical Nanotechnology21 May 2026Grégory Schneider has been appointed Professor of Chemical Nanotechnology at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) as of 1 May. ‘This title really e...
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Grants for research on immune cells, vegan cheese and PFAS detectionGrants and appointments for Faculty of Science 21 April 2026
Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognis...
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Chemotherapy without side effects: Matthijs Hakkennes helps find the needle in the haystack fasterCancer research 20 April 2026Chemotherapy, but without hair loss or extreme fatigue. It may be possible if the toxic drug only becomes active where it is ‘switched on’ by light. M...
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From lockdown to the lab: Leiden PhD researcher develops ‘decoy molecule’ to slow down coronavirus15 April 2026While the Netherlands was in lockdown because of the coronavirus, PhD candidate Koen Rijpkema began his research into the same virus. In the lab, he d...