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'When I talked about the materials for an energy transition in 2010, people almost started to laugh' 25 August 2022In order to build wind turbines and electric cars, we need tons of magnets. Currently, we import these mainly from China, which means Europe is very d...
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Petra Sijpesteijn elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 23 August 2022The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (AIBL), one of the five academies that make up the Institut de France, has elected professor Petra Sij...
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Psychologists receive grant for social anxiety research 22 August 2022“We are proud and happy to receive this grant. It will enable us to do truly innovative fundamental research with a direct link to practical applicati...
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Joachim Koops awarded with Jean Monnet Chair on ‘The EU’s Role in Security and Global Affairs’ 22 August 2022Joachim Koops, Professor of Security Studies and Scientific Director of Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) has been a...
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize! 21 August 2022Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lec...
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YAL Outreach Grants to tackle disinformation 18 August 2022Leiden psychologists receive an Outreach Grant from the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) to talk about facts and fables in their field of research. Marieke ...
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Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for Rüya Akdağ 11 August 2022Rüya Akdağ is part of a research team with the aim of further studying social anxiety. The Leiden psychologist receives the grant for her doctoral res...
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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects 11 August 2022The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and fo...
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Mapping the universe with a NWO grant of 3.1 million 04 August 2022With the new Euclid satellite, scientists are going to map a large part of the sky. The satellite ofthe European Space Agency (ESA) will soon give t...
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New insights into mycobacterial infections with NWO grant 28 July 2022Why are mycobacteria such successful pathogens? And are there defence mechanisms in the body that help reduce an infection? To find out, Annemarie Mei...
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’ 28 July 2022How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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Mia Thomaïdou with Rubicon grant for research to US 25 July 2022Mia Thomaïdou wants to investigate how criminal courts understand and use the increased knowledge of human behavior. Her Rubicon grant allows for two ...
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Kids become real scientists with Lil'Scientist 25 July 2022Children are perfect scientists: they are bursting with curiosity, they want to know how the world works and they go exploring every day. Yet many chi...
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‘Liberal American foreign policy was always entangled with illiberal interests’ 25 July 2022American foreign policy in the period after the Second World War is often characterised as liberal. This is, however, not the full picture, argues uni...
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships 20 July 2022Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic...