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Hardly an audience and a remote committee: receiving a PhD in times of coronaAlmost all PhD defences at Leiden University have been postponed due to the corona virus, but statistician Sanne Willems is going through with hers. I...
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Leiden statisticians create app for patients and doctors to calculate cancer survival probabilitiesA new app is able to calculate personalised survival probabilities for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Doctors and patients can use the a...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientistsLeiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020German mathematician Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. He held the Kloosterman Lecture on 6 Fe...
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Dynamic personalised sarcoma care: implementation of a mathematical prediction app in the clinicA new app provides dynamic predictions of survival for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. It was developed by the mathematical Institute res...
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Measuring sulfur with satellitesSeagoing vessels may emit fewer and fewer harmful substances, but how do you measure whether they comply with the standards? The Dutch Environment and...
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Jacqueline Meulman receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime AchievementRecognition for an unprecedented career of more than forty years: Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman of the Mathematical Institute rec...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talentsMathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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Mathematical model predicts drug concentration in the brainDo medicines arrive in the right amount at the right spot in our brain? By making a model that depicts our brain in small 'brain blocks', PhD student ...
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Connect four: bachelor mathematics labelled excellent for the fourth timeFor the fourth time in a row, the Dutch University Selection Guide labelled the Leiden bachelor’s programme Mathematics as ‘Excellent’. Director of ed...
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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholarsThe Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of ScienceProfessor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Peter Stevenhagen scientific director Mathematical InstituteProfessor of number theory Peter Stevenhagen has been appointed to up the position of scientific director of the Mathematical Institute of Leiden Uni...
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The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technologyState secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grantOver the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...