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Hooray! This extremely sensitive microscope survived its relocation 06 April 2023Moving an electron microscope of 2000 kg is a delicate challenge. The highly sensitive instrument needed to be moved to a new measurement hall, but ev...
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Dorothea Samtleben: Nikhef's first female program leader 03 April 2023As of April 1, physicist Dorothea Samtleben is the first female program leader of Nikhef, the National Institute for Subatomic Physics. Samtleben will...
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In memoriam emeritus professor Jan Schmidt 24 March 2023On March 17, our dear colleague Jan Schmidt passed away after a fruitful and valuable life.
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Designing the quantum future on a regular computer 22 March 2023Computer scientist Tim Coopmans uses pen, paper and regular computers to simulate the best possible quantum computer. He tells about his research and ...
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This is how physicists contribute to the energy transition 10 March 2023Studying surfaces of solid materials: it may not seem relevant to energy consumption, but it is. Marcel Rost studies how platinum electrodes wear out....
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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Late physics professor from Leiden frontrunner on inclusion and diversity 23 February 2023For years, the late professor Marten Durieux personally mentored and funded students from Sudan to study physics in the Netherlands. Colleague Sense J...
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How cool is LEGO®? Leiden physicists use it for ice cold research 16 February 2023Tjerk Oosterkamp's group is conducting what is perhaps the coldest research in the world. The researchers have cooled a sensor to below 2 millikelvin ...
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Stories from women in physics: ‘I want to understand how the world works’ 10 February 2023For the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, women students and researchers from physics talk about what inspires them about their work. F...
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Physics in the picture: cancer cells as an explosion of fireworks 25 January 2023When you think of physics, do you think only of complicated formulas? You’re not the only one. Therefore, every year, the Leiden Insitute of Physics o...
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Mathematics student Alex Colling: ‘Bachelor’s thesis was highlight of my time in Leiden’ 06 January 2023Alex 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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Researchers from Leiden University have received awards in Nationaal Groeifonds Quantum Technology programme 20 December 2022Three researchers from Leiden University have received awards in the Quantum Technology programme within the National Growth Fund, organised by NWO i...
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The career choices of cells 16 December 2022How does an embryonic stem cell decide if it becomes a heart cell or a kidney cell? That’s the question computational biologist Maria Mircea studied f...
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Nobel Prize for quantum physics: the circle for Bell's theorem is complete 08 December 2022This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to quantum physics research. The prize will be awarded on December 10 in Stockholm. Physicist Bas Hensen expla...
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How superconducting memory could help data centres reduce their carbon footprint 28 November 2022Listening to music on Spotify or watching Netflix or YouTube: few of us realise that CO2 is released in the process. This is because online services a...