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Lieke Beekers wins Young Economist Award 202430 August 2024On 28 August 2024, Lieke Beekers won the Young Economist Award 2024.
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Camil Staps receives Rubicon grant: What does ‘that’ mean?29 August 2024PhD student Camil Staps is continuing his academic career in Berlin. He receives a Rubicon grant to do research there on demonstrative pronouns.
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Wim Voermans wins 2023 Book of the Year at University of Texas School of Law26 August 2024Wim Voermans' recent book ‘The Story of Constitutions’ takes an interdisciplinary approach in attempting to understand how constitutions come about an...
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Investigating inflammation: new leads for treating atherosclerosis22 August 2024How do you detect people at high risk of heart attacks and strokes? And how can we improve the treatment of atherosclerosis? These are the questions t...
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Wim Voermans appointed Distinguished Professor19 August 2024The Executive Board has appointed Wim Voermans to the position of distinguished professor. This is a unique role that allows professors to take the le...
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Open-L grant for research on environment as heritage in the Himalayas01 August 2024How can initiatives aimed at environmental conservation and climate change mitigation in the eastern Himalayas proceed from the cultural expectations ...
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Four NWO Open Competition grants for Leiden researchers30 July 2024Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO Open Competition grants in the Science domain. This is for research into subjects such a...
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Real-life data ask for strong algorithms: Mitra Baratchi designs them26 July 2024How do we deal with large sources of greenhouse gases? Do schools provide a socially-inclusive environment for all children? And how can we protect Ea...
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Veni grant for Melanie Fink18 July 2024Melanie Fink, Assistant Professor of European law, has received a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This research grant will allow Dr ...
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Political Scientist Matthew Longo wins Orwell Prize for his book18 July 2024The latest book by political scientist Matthew Longo came out this spring: 'The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain'. In a...
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Veni grant for research on how AI is transforming science18 July 2024Artificial Intelligence is changing many fields of science. The project ‘Beyond “Ground Truth”: An Anthropology of AI at the Limits of Scientific Know...
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Veni grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language17 July 2024'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she wil...
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Veni grant for Neeltje Blankenstein for research to promote healthy online behaviour in youth17 July 2024Taking part in TikTok challenges, online gambling, and forwarding nudes. ‘Why do adolescents take online risks?’, psychologist Neeltje Blankenstein wo...
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Reinoud Kaldewaij awarded Veni grant to measure brain and body reactions to touch17 July 2024Part of our social contact is currently online, with no physical proximity. Does digitalisation mean that we are losing an effective way of making con...
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Veni grant for Leiden researchers17 July 2024The Veni grant is awarded annually by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). This year, multiple researchers from Leiden University a...