News
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Interview with Huub de Groot for Leiden Open Access Blog 25 October 2017
Open Access means shared responsibility for research programs. An interview with Prof. Huub de Groot for the Leiden Open Access Blog in the scope of t...
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Dick Stufkens Prize 2017 awarded to chemist Sven Askes 16 October 2017
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2017 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) is awarded to Dr Sven Askes. In hi...
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Annelot van Esbroeck wins Best Oral Communication Prize 21 September 2017
Annelot van Esbroeck-Weevers, PhD student at the Molecular Physiology research group at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, headed by Dr. Mario van der...
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Joanna Aizenberg awarded the 2017 Havinga Medal 18 September 2017
Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2017 Havinga Medal. She is awarded for her eminent and original contributions ...
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Mechanism captured behind platinum catalyst 07 September 2017
Cars are equipped with catalysts to disarm toxic exhaust gases. Platinum plays an important role there. Leiden physicists and chemists have now for th...
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Faculty of Science kicks off academic year sustainably with electrocatalysis and a surprise 05 September 2017
In a full lecture hall C1 the Faculty of Science started off the new academic year on Tuesday 5 September. The theme of the meeting was, just as it ha...
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Mind the gap(s)! A surface science approach to catalysis? 17 August 2017
Surface Reaction Barriometry: Methane Dissociation on Flat and Stepped Transition-Metal Surfaces.
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches 28 July 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This awa...
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Nanoparticles: a wonder material with a downside? 13 July 2017
Minute nanoparticles are bringing about a completely new industrial revolution. But little is known about the possible dangers to the food chain. An i...
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Cum laude on understanding catalysts under extreme conditions 11 July 2017
Physical chemist Rik Mom developed a revolutionary way to investigate catalysts in action in detail. For this work he received the distinction cum lau...
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Mario van der Stelt and Annelot van Esbroeck win awards at international conference in Canada 29 June 2017
Mario van der Stelt (Head of the department of Molecular Physiology at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry) has received the Young Investigator Award fr...
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‘Freedom makes me a better chemist’ 20 June 2017
Professor of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Marc Koper has been appointed as member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW)....
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New cellular imaging paves way for cancer treatment 19 June 2017
A new technique using fluorescent imaging to track the actions of enzymes might aid drug design for new anti-cancer, inflammation and kidney disease t...
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Champion in headwind and predictions 13 June 2017
It is a stormy Sunday afternoon, with gusts of a whopping 110 kilometres per hour. Chemist Teun Sweere defies the enormous headwind on his city bike a...
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Ten years ERC: Sylvestre Bonnet kills cancer with light 12 June 2017
In 2013, Sylvestre Bonnet received an ERC Starting Grant to kill cancer with molecules that can be activated by light. Two postdocs and three PhD stud...