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'I am interested in how we simulate ourselves into the future'04 February 2020It is a known trait in humans to anchor innovations in the past, so as to make new developments easier to accept. It is an aspect of humanity that can...
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Building a Byzantine and Ottoman Data Atlas with a DANS grant16 January 2020Joanita Vroom, Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia at the Faculty of Archaeology, has again received a DANS Klein DataProject (...
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2019 Hall of fame07 January 2020Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Chastelain-Nobach grant allows Tymon de Haas to enlarge Roman expansion research project12 December 2019Through the Chastelain-Nobach LUF fund, Classical and Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant for his research on the ecologica...
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Femke Lippok wins W.A. van Es-prize for her pioneering work on early medieval burial rites27 November 2019During the 2019 Reuvensdagen, PhD candidate Femke Lippok was awarded the prestigious W.A. van Es-prize for her research master’s thesis The Pyre and t...
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Sandrine Gallois second place in prestigious Rising Talent Prize22 November 2019Sandrine Gallois, a post-doctoral research in the HARVEST project, was awarded second place in the prestigious L'Óreal UNESCO For Women In Science Ris...
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Exploring Roman Portugal with Regato grant20 November 2019The ancient Roman province of Lusitania, more or less contemporary Portugal, has been the focus of a joint research project by Leiden University, Évor...
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Archaeologist Omar Aguilar Sánchez receives Mexican youth prize23 October 2019On October 21st, 2019, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, handed out the National Prize for the Youth in the academic achievement c...
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Thijs van Kolfschoten President Quaternary Research union10 September 2019This summer, the International Union For Quaternary Research (INQUA) 2019 Congress took place in Dublin (Ireland), with 2305 delegates from 75 countr...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant09 September 2019Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Andrew Sorensen receives Veni for continuation of prehistoric fire-making research16 July 2019In 2018, Sorensen’s research into the fire-making habits of the Neanderthals reached the headlines all over the world. Now, a Veni grant will enable h...
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers16 July 2019From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...
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Jason Laffoon's Archaeometry article in top 20 most read25 June 2019The research article ‘The life history of an enslaved African’ is one of the top 20 read Archaeometry articles in the period of January 2017 to Decemb...
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Andy Sorensen's Scientific Reports article in top 100 most read21 May 2019The research article ‘Neanderthal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis’ received 7,053 article views in 2018, placing it as one of ...
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LUF Grant for Natalia Donner for archaeological research at Darien Gap18 April 2019Archaeologist Natalia Donner has been awarded a grant of €5,000 from the Bakels Fonds for her research Bridging the Gap: a historical ecological appro...