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‘I’m always proud when a student follows their own interests’Teacher of the Year awards 11 December 2025He is always positive towards his students, helps them see the bigger picture of the programme, and tries to remind them that ‘a degree is an enormous...
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‘A last-minute challenge became my biggest breakthrough’Leiden Science Young Talent Award 11 December 2025Data Science & AI student Nataliia Bagan combines a passion for mathematics, language, and artificial intelligence. Her exceptional bachelor’s thesis ...
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eLaw co-authors award-winning article on Explainable AI 2.010 December 2025Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw, is co-author of the article 'Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A M...
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eLaw hosts second BIAS capacity-building session on AI in the workplace01 December 2025On 20 November 2025, eLaw hosted the second capacity-building session of the BIAS project, coinciding with the city’s first snowfall of the year. The ...
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Lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' launches with opening by Professor Christine Moser24 November 2025The lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' held its inaugural session on 20 November 2025, at Leiden Law School, featuring Professor Christi...
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Francien Dechesne appointed as Professor to endowed chair of AI and Law at Tilburg UniversityAppointment 06 November 2025Francien Dechesne, Associate Professor of Ethics and Digital Technologies, has been appointed by the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences...
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‘If you understand the risks, AI is an incredible tool’Artificial intelligence 16 October 2025Thomas Moerland studied medicine and mathematics in Leiden and has a lifelong fascination with the origins and workings of intelligence. He brought al...
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Leiden joins EU effort to unite Europe’s cancer research networks01 September 2025The more data from cancer research we pool, the better we can search for new treatments. But how can we keep patient data safe when sharing it? Leiden...
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Award for a method that can create even better algorithms12 August 2025She develops algorithms that outperform leading optimization techniques and can be applied in many fields. For this work, Niki van Stein and her team ...
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New project explores how engineers and AI can truly work together01 August 2025What if AI doesn’t just support engineers, but actually works alongside them? A large consortium, including Leiden University, gets 3.7 million euros....
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This platform is making machine learning more transparent and accessibleChangemakers 21 July 2025What began as a PhD project has grown into a website with 120,000 unique visitors each year. With the platform OpenML, researcher Jan van Rijn is cont...
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How AI could give doctors more time at the patient’s bedsideInaugural lecture 01 July 2025The rise of AI will transform the role of doctors, says Professor of Intensive Care Medicine Sesmu Arbous. Her academic chair focuses on integrating t...
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Melanie Fink Presents on 'Good Administration in the Age of AI' at the European Ombudsman27 June 2025On 26 June 2025, Melanie Fink delivered a presentation titled 'Good Administration in the Age of AI: Explanation Rights and Human Oversight under EU L...
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The BIAS Project at the Artificial Intelligence and Labour Market Workshop01 May 2025
Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, participated in the Artificial Intelligence and Labour Market (AI&LM) Workshop hosted by Ghent Universit...
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Leiden students develop AI tool for marking assignmentsEntrepreneurship 20 March 2025Jeroen van Gessel’s lecturers didn’t always have time for extensive feedback on his written assignments. So, together with tech-savvy friend Menno Hah...