In the media
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Julia Cramer in NRC: ‘My goal is to bring quantum technology into society’ 11 November 2024‘Quantum technology is going to change the world, but most people don’t feel connected to it. I want to change that,’ says Julia Cramer, assistant pro...
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Measuring the pull of gravity on a micron-sized particle 10 April 2024Tjerk Oosterkamp of the Leiden Institute of Physics managed to do the first-ever measurement of gravity on a tiny particle - just 0.43 milligrams - wh...
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NWO-XS grants for two innovative research projects 12 December 2023Two Leiden Science researchers received an NWO-XS grant for their research. Both projects are highly promising, but also high-risk. Macrophages that t...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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The search for a ‘quantum advantage’ 12 December 2022Proving a quantum computer to be quicker than a normal one is one step closer. After a breakthrough in speeding up classical algorithms, researchers V...
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Martin van Hecke in Atlas 04 November 2021Metamaterials researcher Martin van Hecke was featured in the Dutch science tv show Atlas.
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Julia Cramer in Atlas 24 February 2021Tonight 20:25, Julia Cramer, expert in quantum information and communication science, is a guest in the television science programma Atlas
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Micro boat makes world tour 27 October 2020World wide press attention for the article and specifically the image of the 30 micrometer long micro boat 3DBenchy by Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft a...
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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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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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Puzzlegami: Martin van Hecke Lab in the media 17 October 2019The Van Hecke group published in Nature Physics about programmable origami, which was covered in the following media.
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize 07 October 2019Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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Ten years later: what about Erik Verlinde and his theory? 09 August 2019Ten years after its introduction, the controversial idea of Erik Verlinde on gravity is still a hotly debated topic, and is still surrounded by a clou...
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Daniela Kraft about freezing soap bubbles 20 June 2019Physicists at Virginia Tech in the US investigated how a soap bubble freezes to become a beautiful ice dome. This only happens when the surrounding ai...
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Leiden physicists in the media on Nobel Prize 04 October 2018The 2018 Physics Nobel Prize is awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou for their research on optical tweezers based on lasers. L...