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ERC Advanced Grant for Carlo Beenakker to ‘braid’ Majorana fermions 29 March 2019
Theoretical 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 researchers 28 March 2019
The 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 China 26 February 2019
A 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 kidney 22 February 2019
Kidney 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 Leiden 09 February 2019
On 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’ 08 February 2019
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 electrons 06 February 2019
Optical 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 flow 14 January 2019
Topology 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 Economics 09 January 2019
Scientists 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 junction 21 December 2018
Unconventional 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 Projectruimte 21 December 2018
NWO 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 grants 21 December 2018
NWO has assigned Physics Vrije Programma grants to five collaborations of physicists. Leiden University is involved in three of them.
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Mazène Hochane and Xueying Fan win LION Image Award 2018 19 December 2018
Mazène Hochane and Xueying Fan have won the fourth annual LION Image Award. They created a detailed colour image of a human kidney in development.
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HTSM grant for physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp 19 December 2018
This header image was once elected Image of the Week by De Volkskrant and won second place in the LION Image Award. The research behind it is no less ...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 2018 13 December 2018
Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...