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The most stable microscope in the worldMaking the most vibration-free, cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope in the world. A bold mission, but one that PhD candidate Irene Battisti succes...
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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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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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ERC Advanced Grant for Carlo Beenakker to ‘braid’ Majorana fermionsTheoretical physicist Carlo Beenakker has been awarded a €2m Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). He will use this to try to create ...
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ERC Advanced Grants for two Leiden researchersThe European Research Commission (ERC) has awarded Advanced Grants to two Leiden researchers. Joke Meijer will be researching the effect of the biolog...
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Leiden University Day in ChinaA Leiden University Day, new agreements on exchanging PhD students and a keynote speech by Geert de Snoo at a popular symposium. In November, a Facult...
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Leiden scientists map cell types in fetal kidneyKidney failure is a serious issue because kidneys cannot regenerate themselves after injury. A possible solution consists of artificially growing heal...
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Festive celebration International Day of Women and Girls in Science in LeidenOn Saturday 9 February 2019 we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019 in Leiden! View the photos of this festive day, wit...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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Single molecules show promise to optically detect single electronsOptical detection of a single electron using a single molecule has never been done. Leiden physicist Michel Orrit and his team have now identified a m...
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Topological quantities flowTopology is an emerging field within many scientific disciplines, even leading to a Physics Nobel Prize in 2016. Leiden physicist Marcello Caio and hi...
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Common frame for analyzing complex systems in Physics and EconomicsScientists often need to make sense of complex systems without knowing the important parameters or even without access to all the information. A colla...
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Supercurrents gone chiral: new type of superconducting junctionUnconventional superconductors form one of the big mysteries in physics. Among them is strontium ruthenate, which stands out as a controversial superc...
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Aarts and Cheianov receive NWO Physics ProjectruimteNWO has granted Jan Aarts en Vadim Cheianov a Physics Projectruimte, a granting instrument for small-scale projects that propose innovative fundamenta...
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Leiden involved in three out of five Physics Vrije Programma grantsNWO has assigned Physics Vrije Programma grants to five collaborations of physicists. Leiden University is involved in three of them.