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Understanding superconductivity comes closer with major ERC grant for Milan Allan 17 March 2022
Physicist Milan Allan will build an instrument that will bring superconductivity research further. He has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 ...
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ERC Starting Grants for five young Leiden researchers 10 January 2022
Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of on average 1.5m euros...
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A computer made of floppy rubber 13 December 2021
A piece of corrugated rubber can function as a simple computer, displaying memory and displaying the ability to count to two. Leiden physicists descri...
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Alexey Boiarskyi appointed full professor 09 December 2021
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Alexey Boiarskyi has been appointed full professor per 1 October.
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Anne Meeussen wins Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis prize 2021 12 November 2021
Anne Meeussen, who defended her PhD thesis on programmable materials in May 2021 earning cum laude honours, won the second Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa prize...
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Raindrops on the roof-technique reveals new quantum liquid 28 October 2021
Koen Bastiaans and his colleagues discovered a new quantum liquid unlike anything ever seen. They did it by using a technique that can be compared to ...
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Martin van Hecke elected APS fellow 12 October 2021
Metamaterials researcher Martin van Hecke has been elected American Physical Society (APS) fellow, an honour exclusive to only half a percent of the s...
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Superselective bonds light up 02 September 2021
Rather than one key and one strong lock, biology often uses tens or hundreds of weaker links to bind parts together, such as cells membranes. This all...
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Louise Jawerth gets vidi for understanding pesky protein fibers 14 July 2021
Mysterious protein fibers show up in the brain cells of people suffering from Alzheimer’s' disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Leiden physi...
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Discovering the physics of banks, the economy and financial crisis 23 June 2021
Physicist Diego Garlaschelli co-authored an extensive review in the journal Nature Reviews Physics. Surprisingly, the subject wasn't physics at all, b...
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Stripes give away Majoranas 03 June 2021
Majorana particles have been getting bad publicity: a claimed discovery in ultracold nanowires had to be retracted. Now Leiden physicists open up a ne...
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Deciphering the link between Iron and Brain Disease 30 April 2021
Aceruloplasminemia is a very rare, genetic disease accompagnied with iron accumulation that causes movement disorder and brain damage at early age.
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ERC grant for calculating materials 22 April 2021
Physicist Martin van Hecke receives a 2.5 million euro ERC research grant for research into information processing materials. Starting out with a piec...
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Major upgrade for undersea neutrino detector 19 April 2021
Building the neutrino detector KM3NeT on the Mediterranean Sea floor has picked up pace. Five detection lines, each carrying eighteen detectors, have ...
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615 million euros for quantum research 09 April 2021
Quantum Delta NL, a research programme in which Leiden University participates, has been awarded 615 million euros from the National Growth Fund to he...