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New spinoff company to solve major roadblock in the quantum revolution 06 December 2023Physicist Kaveh Lahabi’s research on quantum materials led to the launch of a new company: QuantaMap. With his colleagues, he developed a sensor that ...
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KHMW graduation prize for research on superconducting qubits 28 November 2023Matthias Flór receives the KHMW Graduation Prize in Theoretical Physics for his master's thesis. His research on exotic superconductors at Leiden Univ...
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European grant to advance self-learning capabilities of quantum computers 24 November 2023A major grant for research into machine learning algorithms for quantum computers. With this ERC Consolidator grant, Vedran Dunjko and his colleagues ...
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Two ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers 23 November 2023Research on quantum computers and Islamic charities: two Leiden researchers have received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
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The magic of liquid helium: this person makes ice-cold research in Leiden possible 22 November 2023White clouds of ice-cold gas flowing across the floor. Magical, but be careful not to freeze your fingers off. We are of course talking about liquid n...
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Marco Beijersbergen fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering 13 November 2023Cosine Marco Beijersbergen has been appointed as one of the distinguished 62 fellows of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). With these fello...
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Vocational education and university join forces for quantum technology 09 November 2023Quantum 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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New professor Vedran Dunjko finds real-world problems that a quantum computer can solve 02 November 2023When he started high school, his brother gave him an advanced book on quantum computing. That's when he knew what he wanted to pursue. Since 1 October...
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Why do birds flock? Shedding light on collective motions in heterogeneous populations 26 October 2023Electrifying plastic beads in a laboratory setup creates flocking behaviour similar to that observed in birds. And if you mix beads of two sizes, they...
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Koenraad Schalm new Programme Director of the Physics master 25 October 2023Koenraad Schalm will be the new programme director of the Physics master starting 1 November. He has been appointed for a period of four years. Schalm...
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FLAMINGO: dark matter, ordinary matter, and neutrinos in the biggest cosmological simulation ever 24 October 2023Not only dark matter, but also ordinary matter and dark energy are tracked in the largest ever cosmological computer simulation ever. In the FLAMINGO ...
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Studying ferritin: ‘we hope this will eventually give more insight into Alzheimer's’ 10 October 2023Exactly how Alzheimer's disease develops is not well understood, but an imbalance of iron in the brain might just play a role. Martina Huber of the Le...
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From forming embryo to cancer metastasis: the significance of collective cell movement 21 September 2023Against all expectations, the most common tissue in our bodies behaves differently at different length scales. That’s what physicist Luca Giomi discov...
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Corrugated plastic unveils a new design principle for programmable materials 20 September 2023Corrugated plastic turns out to be exemplary of a new class of ‘multistable’ metamaterials that can reversibly change shape. This insight can lead to ...
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In memoriam professor Jo Hermans 01 September 2023On Tuesday evening 22 August, our very dear colleague Jo Hermans passed away. Jo had been ill for some time, but continued to enjoy life in good spiri...