In the media
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A compound that gives life as easily as it takes: Jan Willem Erisman on BBC about ammonium nitrate 11 September 2020Following the Beirut explosion, BBC's podcast series The Foodchain explores the chemical that caused the blast: ammonium nitrate. A compound that is w...
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Cell-based medicinal products: grant rejected, paper published 26 June 2020Cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) belong to an innovative and heterogeneous group of medicines called advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)....
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In the media: Daniela Kraft in Academic Stories about nanoparticle robots 27 May 2020Daniela Kraft speaks to Academic Stories about self-assembling soft matter, nanorobots, the importance of female rodels in science, and the unique fre...
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Six-feet society in pictures 06 May 2020The six-feet society is being built up rapidly; arrows and planes made of tape, circles and stripes of chalk, fences and other barriers are popping up...
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Programming resembles learning a language 06 April 2020What languages do you speak? According to Felienne Hermans, ‘Python’ could be an answer to this question. Hermans studies how people learn to program ...
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From intuition to data 03 April 2020Dutch speedskaters have been winning the most medals in speed skating at the Winter Olympics for years. How? Based on their intuition. Scientist Jeroe...
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International media report on Leiden dosage app for corona patients 30 March 2020Coen van Hasselt's research group quickly produced an app that enables doctors to determine the correct dosage of commonly used medicines for corona p...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming! 25 March 2020Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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World news: eleven asteroids on a collision course with Earth 09 March 2020The discovery that eleven asteroids might collide with our Earth has become world news. The research of three Leiden astronomers has appeared on more ...
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‘Holland, invest in the national AI-ecosystem’ 27 February 2020The European Commission published new plans on artificial intelligence on 19 February. According to Holger Hoos, professor in Machine Learning at the ...
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Improving football skills using data-mining 10 February 2020Using positional data to determine which tactics lead to a successful attack? Rens Meerhoff, researcher at the Sports Data Center of the Leiden Instit...
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Topological Metamaterials in the media 31 January 2020Press coverage for the Nature Physics-paper about topological materials by Anne Meeussen, Erdal Oğuz, Yair Shokef and Martin van Hecke
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Huub de Groot breaks down artificial photosynthesis 12 December 2019In a promotional video for the SUNRISE initiative, prof. Huub de Groot explains the impact and ideas behind artificial photosynthesis.
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More accurate estimation of cross-border internet purchases 05 December 2019How can cross-border internet purchases be accurately estimated? Researchers Quinten Meertens, Cees Diks, Jaap van den Herik and Frank Takes of the Le...
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Importing goods from sustainable countries could lower EU’s environmental footprint 28 November 2019A recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environm...