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Transdisciplinary work is fantastic, but requires dedicated efforts from all sides to understand each other’Mental health & data science 16 December 2025Eiko Fried has been appointed professor of Mental Health & Data Science. This combined chair neatly fits the view that understanding complex mental he...
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Higher CO2 levels are making our food more calorific and less nutritiousFood crops 14 November 2025More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more calorific, less nutritious and potentially more toxic. If we do not intervene, this could cause m...
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Data science for newbies: honours students learn to utilise AI26 June 2025Brain scans, heart attacks and credit scores: many science applications revolve around data. But how do you mine applicable insights from a mountain o...
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Shocks in space: student Adriaan explores the universe around protostars09 December 2024Protostars, data science, and the James Webb Space Telescope—Adriaan Janssen’s curiosity knows no bounds. As a double bachelor’s student in Physics an...
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Outbreak of an infectious disease? Mathematics helps in making quick, informed decisions15 October 2024A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial ch...
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KiKa grant for mathematician: how statistics helps fight bone cancer12 July 2024Using mathematics to help children with bone cancer. It sounds a little strange, but for statistician Marta Fiocco, it's just her job. She gets a subs...
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Dutch Cancer Society allocates funds to a mathematician: for treating Ewing sarcoma with the help of an app26 January 2024If doctors could better estimate a patient's chances of survival, this would help in choosing a specific treatment. It would be particularly beneficia...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri appointed to the Programme Committee of PLSC19 October 2023Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Board member at eLaw, has been appointed to the Programme Committee of PLSC, the Privacy Law Scho...
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Cycling like a Jumbo-Visma pro with the Leiden data model28 July 2022Just like the professional riders from the Jumbo-Visma team, amateur cyclists will soon be able to analyse and improve their performance. Leiden data ...
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Matthijs van Leeuwen: 'I want to teach students responsible data science'15 June 2022Computer scientist Matthijs van Leeuwen is one of four science faculty members who obtained the Senior Qualification in Education in 2021. What was th...
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‘Using real-world data to enhance our healthcare system’17 May 2022On 16 May 2022, Professor Michel Wouters from the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), will deliver ...
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New statistical method brings together studies at an early stage04 April 2022During the coronavirus pandemic, scientists were in a hurry to find drugs that would help fight the disease. To combine the research that was being ca...
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From basic research to healthcare tools29 March 2022On April 1, Marco Spruit, Professor of Advanced Data Science in Population Health at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden Instit...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists04 February 2022An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...
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Measuring skate provides insight into ice-skating technique28 January 2022In the future top Dutch speed skaters may skate even faster thanks to a skate full of electronics. This ‘measuring skate’ gives top skaters and coache...