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Learning better from data: Rianne de Heide wins prestigious award for her dissertation 29 March 2022
How can humans and computers learn from data? To research this, scientists often use so-called Bayesian methods. Although these methods are widely use...
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Distinguished Scholar Award presented to Jan Melissen: ‘Very honoured’ 28 March 2022
Professor Jan Melissen (ISGA) is the recipient of the 2022 ISA Distinguished Scholar Award in Diplomacy Studies. It is the first time this prize has b...
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Yung-Ting Tsou wins Poster Prize at Dutch National Autisme Congres 2022 28 March 2022
Developmental psychologist Yung-Ting Tsou's research is part of the Breaking the Cycle project. This project of the Focus on Emotions lab at Leiden Un...
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Natashe Lemos Dekker awarded Distinguished Women Scientists Fund 24 March 2022
Natashe Lemos Dekker has been awarded the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund 2021. This travel grant for female postdocs allows her to spend a period...
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NWA grant for health law as part of NWA Cure4life 24 March 2022
Mirjam Sombroek, Aart Hendriks and Martine de Vries (LUMC) will work on mapping the ethical and legal aspects of gene therapy. The aim is to establish...
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Psychologists participate in high-tech biomarker research in health care 24 March 2022
Next generation immunodermatology (NGID) is a nationwide, large-scale project, funded by a large grant of the Dutch NWO to unravel novel biomarkers fo...
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Jasmijn Rana granted Marie Curie Global Fellowship 23 March 2022
Jasmijn Rana has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship for her research project “The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Wom...
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Paul Wouters receives RISE Award 22 March 2022
Paul Wouters received the RISE Award, an award by the women’s network RISE, for his commitment to increasing gender equality at the Faculty of Science...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia 21 March 2022
Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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Dissertation Joost Grootens awarded as one the Best Dutch Book Designs 2021. 21 March 2022
PhDArts alumnus Joost Grootens’ book 'Blind Maps and Blue Dots: The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information’ has ...
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NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience 18 March 2022
A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study ...
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Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion? 17 March 2022
Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious gr...
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LUC education team nominated for Dutch Higher Education Award 15 March 2022
The Leiden University College team behind the Learning Mindset project has been nominated for the Dutch Higher Education Award, an award for innovativ...
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Vici grant for Anouk de Koning for research on Prototyping Welfare in Europe 15 March 2022
Across Europe, neighborhoods, schools and community centers are turned into living labs to experiment with “doing” the welfare state differently. Leid...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers 15 March 2022
Three Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced on Tuesday. Two of the researchers wor...