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Shocks in space: student Adriaan explores the universe around protostars09 December 2024
Protostars, data science, and the James Webb Space Telescope—Adriaan Janssen’s curiosity knows no bounds. As a double bachelor’s student in Physics an...
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How a bachelor’s student contributed to better chemical simulations09 December 2024
Doğukan Yilmaz chose a study that aligned with his favourite subjects, and it paid off. For his bachelor thesis, he developed a new model to better pr...
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'09 December 2024
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocea...
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Max Farasat and Lara Offermans win the LUCSoR Thesis Prizes (2021-2023)05 December 2024
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) and the Beheerstichting Theologische Fondsen hand out two biennial thesis prizes, one ...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan appointed as adjunct professor at Wuhan University03 December 2024
Dr Tanja Masson-Zwaan, assistant professor at the International Institute of Air and Space Law, recently visited four universities and a research inst...
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Smart programming for the quantum computer that does not exist yet03 December 2024
Designing innovative algorithms, thinking outside the box, and brainstorming over coffee with his colleagues — this is what physicist Stefano Polla en...
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Two ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers02 December 2024
Two Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to 2 million euros will enable ...
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Marie Depuydt wins Van Wersch Springboard prize02 December 2024
Marie Depuydt has won the Van Wersch Springboard Prize. She was awarded the prize on 28 November during the annual Fall symposium. There were seven no...
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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'19 November 2024
It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...
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Valerie Frissen wins Lifetime Achievement Award18 November 2024
On 10 October, Valerie Frissen was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Internet Society Foundation. The professor by special appointment rec...
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Anne van Rongen wins the Wayne A. Colburn Memorial Award18 November 2024
Anne van Rongen has been honoured with the Wayne A. Colburn Memorial Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology...
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KWF funding for research on culturally sensitive palliative care06 November 2024
Providing good information to patients is crucial, especially in their final phase of life. Not all patients want to receive full details about their ...
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Sophie Starrenburg elected as member of Coordinating Committee of the ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture04 November 2024
In October, Sophie Starrenburg was elected as a member of the Coordinating Committee of the ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture. S...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’04 November 2024
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize04 November 2024
Mehmet Kentel has been named co-winner of the prize, which is given out yearly by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, for his article “Ruin a...