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Photo report: Book launch 'Ruminations' by Tahir Abbas 20 December 2022
Tahir Abbas, Professor of Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, organised a book launch for his new book: 'Ruminatio...
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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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Awards, grants, and special appointments: 2022’s Honours Gallery 19 December 2022
Over the past year, many students and staff members of Leiden Law School have been lauded for their extraordinary achievements. For instance: a grant ...
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Wei Chu receives SNMAP funding for dating earliest dwelling structures in Ukraine 19 December 2022
At some point in the deep past the first known dwelling structures were built out of mammoth bones in a country we now know as Ukraine. Archaeologist ...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' 19 December 2022
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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Leiden insolvency thesis wins annual BUREN thesis prize 16 December 2022
On 23 November 2022, the BUREN Thesis Prize on Insolvency Law was awarded for the fifth time. This year, two Leiden theses were nominated for this pri...
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Charlotte Parree wins Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award 16 December 2022
Charlotte Parree won the Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Prize on Tuesday afternoon, 6 December, with her thesis entitled 'Suffering knows no age; ...
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Inventors with a nose for technology 15 December 2022
Amidst the lathes and welding machines of the Fine Mechanics Department, Emiel Wiegers is working concentratedly on a metal cylinder. He and his colle...
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Max van Duijn and Vasiliki Kosta join The Young Academy 13 December 2022
Leiden researchers Max van Duijn (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) and Vasilika Kosta (Leiden Law School, Europa Institute) will join Th...
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Rachel Beckles Willson appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Music is interwoven with the big questions of our time’ 13 December 2022
Rachel Beckles Willson started her career as a concert pianist but was later captivated by the Middle Eastern stringed instrument called the oud. On 1...
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga & Louk van Doorn win the DT4REGIONS Ideathon on AI Potential for Preventive Healthcare 12 December 2022
eLaw - Center of Law and Digital technologies from Leiden Law School, and the Vascular Surgery Department at Leiden University Medical Centre in the N...
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Medical Delta professor Ariane Briegel: 'I love working with people from different backgrounds' 09 December 2022
Multidrug-resistant pathogens and worldwide pandemics are increasing, making infectious diseases more prevalent. To develop new treatments, deeper kno...
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Nobel Prize winner visited Leiden: 'We have hosted a scientific rockstar' 08 December 2022
On 28 September the famous chemists Carolyn Bertozzi visited Leiden University to speak at the LED3 seminar. Just one week later, she was announced wi...
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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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Carel ten Cate awarded honorary membership Dutch Society for Behavioural Biology 07 December 2022
Professor emeritus of Animal Behaviour Carel ten Cate is awarded honorary membership by the Dutch Society for Behavioural Biology (NVG). He received ...