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Hooray! This extremely sensitive microscope survived its relocation 06 April 2023
Moving 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 2023
As 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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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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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023
Researchers 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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How cool is LEGO®? Leiden physicists use it for ice cold research 16 February 2023
Tjerk 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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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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Researchers from Leiden University have received awards in Nationaal Groeifonds Quantum Technology programme 20 December 2022
Three 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 2022
How 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 2022
This 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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Physicist Sense Jan van der Molen plays ‘Dutch shuffleboard’ with electrons 18 October 2022
Physicist Sense Jan van der Molen researches materials that do not exist in nature. ‘It’s fascinating to see how the properties of a material change i...
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Can we live longer? Leiden physicist makes discovery in protective layer in genes 12 September 2022
With the aid of physics and a minuscule magnet, researchers have discovered a new structure of telomeric DNA. Telomeres are sometimes seen as the key ...
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Daniela Kraft appointed professor of Experimental Physics 19 August 2022
Daniela Kraft and her research are a familiar fixture at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION). Both have been awarded fellowships, grants and freque...
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New perspective in quantum mechanics and better sleep for PhD students 06 July 2022
Besides physics, the sleep of PhD students also benefits from Vitaly Fedoseev's PhD research. He will receive his doctorate on July 7 for his work on ...
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Physicists from Leiden help create world’s smallest Rembrandt 05 July 2022
Museum De Lakenhal is displaying the smallest work of art in the world: a 3D-printed statue of Rembrandt van Rijn, made by sculptor Jeroen Spijker and...
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Young talent: quantum scientist receives Young Scientist Prize 29 June 2022
Only 35 years old and already a research group leader, on his way to tenure. And: numerous papers, grants and fellowships to his name. Leiden physicis...