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Intelligence, Dynamic testing and potential for learning
Can dynamic testing provide us with insight in children’s potential for learning?
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Operando research in heterogeneous catalysis
The nanoscale structure of a catalyst under reaction conditions determines its activity, selectivity, and stability. For the production of sustainable energy and materials, new catalysts are needed. By understanding the structure-activity relationships of catalysts under reaction conditions, insight…
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Awards and prizes 2017
An overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2017, as well as special appointments and royal distinctions.
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Facilities and services
There’s more to obtaining a bachelor’s or master’s degree than just studying. For example, where can you go for advice, or to let off some steam, practise your favourite sport, stay in shape, socialise, or simply find some peace and quiet? Leiden University can help in all these areas, and more.
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Invited speakers
Speakers that have accepted to participate:
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Culture of quality
ICLON offers support on all aspects of accreditation and quality assurance.
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Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making
How can the concept of Critical Making be expanded into a general approach that ties the critical methodology of artistic research, and the established concepts of artistic autonomy, together with contemporary creative-technological development?
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African Studies Centre Leiden
Africa has a population of 1.5 billion people. In 30 years’ time, this will be 2.5 billion. The continent’s impact on the global economy, but also on the environment, will therefore increase drastically.
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Governance and Data Science Group
The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…
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Past Projects
Since the start of the Leiden University Green Office, several projects have been initiated to increase the awareness among staff and students and to make the university more sustainable. Read here about our finalized projects.
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International Air Law Moot Court Competition
The International Air Law Moot Court Competition is a unique opportunity for students seeking to gain experience in the development of arguments in the field of international law and international air law, while also establishing contacts around the world.
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Evaluation and test service for higher education
Creating and processing written standard evaluations and automatic processing of written examinations
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Papyrology
The Leiden Papyrological Institute is the only papyrological institute in the Netherlands, and one of the few institutes in the world where study of Greek and Demotic Egyptian is combined. This is reflected in both teaching and research. Members of the Institute are active in publishing texts from various…
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History
Life Sciences Artificial Intelligence Data Science
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Visiting scholars Law and Digital Technologies
* UPDATE 12-10-2020, due to Corona measures, it is not possible to visit our center at Leiden University in Spring of 2021* We encourage applications of visiting scholars whose research interests and activities are in line with our research programme 'Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in…
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Tom Lubensky appointed 2018 Lorentz Professor
Coming spring, Professor Tom Lubensky from the University of Pennsylvania will be the 64th Lorentz Professor at the department of Theoretical Physics. He is a pioneer in the field of theoretical soft matter physics and winner of the prestigious Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. During his stay in Leiden…
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Bram Klievink appointed at new chair Digitalization and Public Policy
As per 1st May 2019, Leiden University appointed Bram Klievink as professor of Public Administration with a focus on digitalization and public policy. The new chair has been established at the Institute of Public Administration of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University. Bram…
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Protector against air pollution is vulnerable to air
Catalyst research aims to make gasoline less polluting. It turns out that during experiments it is actually necessary to protect catalysts from air itself. Publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C on August 26.
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Prof. Marin van Heel awarded Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2017
Prof. Dr. Ir. Marin van Heel, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (NeCEN), is one of the winners of the “Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2017”. This annual award is presented to recognize contributions that have opened new fields of research or have advanced concepts in a particular…
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Kickoff Critical Making research project
The newly launched NWO funded research project ‘Bridging art, design and technology through Critical Making’ aims to interrogate Critical Making by experimentally applying it to a broad range of artistic practices.
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Leiden Physics hosts 2016 NEVAC day
The Leiden Institute of Physics hosted the annual conference of the Dutch Vacuum Society (NEVAC). Experts in the field of vacuum experiments talked about their research. The 2016 NEVAC Prize was awarded to PhD student Martijn Vos from the TU Eindhoven.
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Premiere of The Construction of an Imaginary Acoustic Space
The Construction of an Imaginary Acoustic Space, a new work by ACPA PhD Candidate Gabriel Paiuk was premiered last Saturday at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. The piece was commissioned by the österreichisches ensemble für neue musik for their second yearly concert series.
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In memoriam: RAG de Graaff
On November 16 2016 Dr. Rudolf A.G. de Graaff passed away at the age of 75.
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Joanna Aizenberg awarded the 2017 Havinga Medal
Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2017 Havinga Medal. She is awarded for her eminent and original contributions to the field of biologically inspired materials science.
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Golden medal for project ELECTRACE
A team of students from Leiden University, TU Delft and Rotterdam University won a golden medal during the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) in November in Boston. Their project ELECTRACE concerned a bacterium that can be used to search for landmines.
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Aleydis Nissen wins the European Public Law Organization Thesis Prize
The postdoc received the 2020 Thesis Prize for her PhD research on the role of the EU Member States in regulating and remedying corporate human rights violations.
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Winner Physics Image Award is Volkskrant Image of the Week
Vera Meester has won the annual Physics Image Award 2016, with her photo of 'smiling' colloids. The Volkskrant published the picture as Image of the Week.
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‘We add a bit of escape room to our lessons’
Tommy Hopstaken and Jochem Haverhoek run an escape room in Kruithuisje, a medieval tower on what was once the perimeter canal in Leiden. They are also secondary-school teachers and make good use of their escape room experience in their lessons. How do their degrees in Dutch and Astronomy come in use…
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14 Veni grants awarded to Leiden researchers
Fourteen promising researchers from Leiden University have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming years thanks to a Veni grant from the NWO. This year, these subsidies have been granted to studies of the influence of noise on the great tit, the conditions necessary…
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Joan van der Waals colloquium
Lezing
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FRESH Lecture: Photoelectron spectroscopy in the gas-phase and in liquid-jets
Lezing
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Joan van der Waals colloquium
Lezing
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Joan van der Waals colloquium
Lezing
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Metals for Catalysis and Sustainability
Central in coordination and organometallic chemistry is the synthesis of new chelating ligands, the synthesis and characterization of metal complexes with these ligands, and the study of their properties. An important goal in my research is to create understanding of the relation between the structures…
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PhD candidate or Postdoctoral researcher The Tocharian Trek
Geesteswetenschappen, Centre for Linguistics
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Mobility
Leiden University, with its 60 locations in Leiden and The Hague, more than 6,500 members of staff, 27,000 students and a large number of visitors, is a dynamic community. Every day thousands of movements take place from, to and between the different University buildings.
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Full Professor in Public Law & Governance of AI
Governance and Global Affairs, Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Renewable Energy
The transition to new and renewable energy sources should be completed by 2050. Researchers in various disciplines at Leiden University are conducting unique research that will help us make this transition and reduce CO2 emissions.
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Fundamental and translational medical biochemistry
Through metabolism, biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of life. Acquired and inborn errors in metabolism underlie many diseases occurring in man. The challenge for present day medical biochemistry is to find, and integrate, pieces of information at molecular, cell and organismal level…
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Director African Studies Centre Leiden / Full Professor
Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden
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Verba Africana
The project
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PhD candidate to draft an NWO proposal
The Institute of Immigration Law of Leiden University is looking for a candidate who is interested in pursuing a PhD in the area of immigration or refugee law.
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Insulator becomes conductor at the push of a button
Ionic liquids are important in scientific research because they can apply a lot of charge over a surface. Leiden physicists have now found that the charging process of ionic liquids purely depends on opposite charges attracting each other. Chemical reactions are sometimes involved, but not essential.…
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Lorenza Colzato editor-in-chief of new scientific journal
Psychologist Lorenza Colzato is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, a new interdisciplinary psychology publication. The journal will contribute to a higher understanding of research aimed at enhancing human performance and creative potential.
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Counting Molecules in Living cells
Biophysicist Rolf Harkes has developed a microscope to optically localize individual molecules in living cells. It improves monitoring of diseases like cancer and Parkinson’s at the cellular level. Defende PhD thesis on t13 January 2016.
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Cum laude physicist Tom O’Brien to research quantum chemistry by quantum computers
With defending his thesis ‘Applications of topology to Weyl semimetals and quantum computing’, the Leiden theoretical physicist Tom O'Brien has gained the rare 'cum laude' qualification. The freshly minted PhD has started a five year research programme on quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry, funded…
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Minute molecular movements might lead to more efficient biofuel cells
Leiden researchers have found minute movements in the laccase enzyme. This discovery could lead to the development of much more efficient biofuel cells. Publication in Biophysical Journal.
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Vidi research grant for physicist Daniela Kraft
The image of the Leiden microboat traveled all over the world, from the BBC up to Arab shipping blogs. But Daniela Kraft's research group has quite a few more different 3D printed microswimmers up their sleeves. Kraft receives a Vidi research grant for research into these variously shaped active par…
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Physicists demonstrate new method to make single photons
Scientists need individual photons for quantum cryptography and quantum computers. Leiden physicists have now experimentally demonstrated a new production method. Publication in Physical Review Letters on July 23rd.