A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial ch...

Using mathematics to help children with bone cancer. It sounds a little strange, but for statistician Marta Fiocco, it's just her job. She gets a subs...

If doctors could better estimate a patient's chances of survival, this would help in choosing a specific treatment. It would be particularly beneficia...

Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Board member at eLaw, has been appointed to the Programme Committee of PLSC, the Privacy Law Scho...

Just like the professional riders from the Jumbo-Visma team, amateur cyclists will soon be able to analyse and improve their performance. Leiden data ...

Computer scientist Matthijs van Leeuwen is one of four science faculty members who obtained the Senior Qualification in Education in 2021. What was th...

On 16 May 2022, Professor Michel Wouters from the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), will deliver ...

During the coronavirus pandemic, scientists were in a hurry to find drugs that would help fight the disease. To combine the research that was being ca...

On April 1, Marco Spruit, Professor of Advanced Data Science in Population Health at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden Instit...

An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...

In the future top Dutch speed skaters may skate even faster thanks to a skate full of electronics. This ‘measuring skate’ gives top skaters and coache...

Only the fittest cyclists stand a chance of taking yellow in the brutal Tour de France. Team Jumbo-Visma is working with data scientists from Leiden. ...

Technology holds so much promise – from self-driving cars to enhanced physical performance from smart implants under the skin. But we should not let o...

The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists...

By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...