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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024
On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Vocational education and university join forces for quantum technology 09 November 2023
Quantum technology is the future, but not without skilled people. For this reason, the Talent & Learning Centre (TLC) Delft/Leiden has been establishe...
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Specialising in quantum? New Leiden-Delft master's degree launched 24 March 2023
Quantum technologies are in demand worldwide, but until now Leiden students could not specialise in them. The new master’s program QIST (Quantum Infor...
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Physics student Hidde Stoffels investigates dark matter in outstanding undergraduate thesis 06 January 2023
He makes music, goes to the athletics track twice a week and, according to his supervisor, has done his research so well that it would not be out of p...
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Mathematics student Alex Colling: ‘Bachelor’s thesis was highlight of my time in Leiden’ 06 January 2023
Alex Colling himself calls his bachelor's thesis ‘the highlight of his time in Leiden’. And according to his supervisors, that resulted in an outstand...
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The Mindfulnest at the Science Faculty 18 November 2022
Are you in need of some rest, stressed about an exam, or feeling under the weather? Since a few months you can find Mindfulnest at the Science Faculty...
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Life after the Grand Jamboree: Wrapping-up iGEM 10 November 2022
‘A challenging rollercoaster, but also a very bonding and insightful experience,’ that’s how the team of iGEM Leiden 2022 wraps up their participation...
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A boost for open source laboratory education: 175,000 euro subsidy 15 June 2022
A project to improve practicals in science courses has been awarded a 175,000 subsidy. Leiden physicist Paul Logman is one of the applicants, together...
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Teaching Assistant Prize for Michał Pacholski and Koen van Deelen 12 January 2021
To improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of t...
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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizon 25 September 2020
At the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting 07 September 2020
From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Leiden Lockdown Lab Lore 17 June 2020
Leiden Lockdown Lab Lore is a series of short youtube videos aimed at keeping physicists lab instincts alive during the lockdown. This time, we have a...
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Martin van Hecke wins 2020 Dutch Physica Award 09 January 2020
The 2020 Physica Award has been awarded to physicist Martin van Hecke, a researcher at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) and the Amsterdam AMOLF....
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Stefano Polla wins Lorentz Master thesis award 26 November 2019
Stefano Pollas master thesis 'Quantum Digital Cooling' has been awarded the Lorentz Master thesis award. The award, 3000 euros and a certificate, has ...
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A Dutch podcast about physics 31 October 2019
New: Een Podcast over Natuurkunde, a podcast about Leiden physics. In the first episode, Dirk van Delft tells about the Hendrik Antoon Lorentz biograp...