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Royal honour for emeritus professor Ad IJzerman 26 April 2022
Ad IJzerman, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacochemistry, was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 26 April. He was presented with...
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ERC Advanced Grants for four Leiden researchers 26 April 2022
From a new generation of antibiotics and more-effective vaccines to a map of dark matter and new light on Hindu traditions. Four researchers from Leid...
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Awaken sleeping antibiotics with ERC Advanced grant 26 April 2022
To facilitate the search for new antibiotics. That is the aim of Gilles van Wezel, professor molecular biotechnology at the Institute of Biology Leide...
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Mark Leiser appointed International Research Fellow 25 April 2022
Dr Mark Leiser, Assistant Professor in Law and Digital technologies at eLaw, has been appointed an International Research fellow at the Coordinated Re...
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Success for Leiser and Yang at BILETA 22 April 2022
Dr Mark Leiser, Assistant Professor at eLaw, and Wen-Ting Yang, former Law And Digital technologies student, won the Best Paper award at BILETA, the U...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers 21 April 2022
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Four Leiden researchers awarded Rubicon grants 14 April 2022
Four promising young researchers will be able to conduct two years of research at a university abroad thanks to a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Researc...
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022! 13 April 2022
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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NWO Veni for Linda Geven for research into false confessions 12 April 2022
An NWO Veni application by Linda Geven, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, has been honoured. She will spend the ne...
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Eveline Crone receives American Award for innovation 11 April 2022
Eveline Crone has been selected for the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS). 'It's very special to get r...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran? 11 April 2022
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant 11 April 2022
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 7th in QS World University Ranking 08 April 2022
It is the sixth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...
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Jessica den Oudsten wins the eighth Uitgeverij Verloren/ Johan de Witt thesis award 07 April 2022
Jessica den Oudsten won this year’s Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis award for history with her master’s thesis, entitled "The descendants of ...
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Jacqueline Meulman receives honorary membership at statistics society VVSOR 05 April 2022
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman received an honorary membership during the annual meeting of the Netherlands Society for S...