News
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Jasper's day 25 January 2024Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing? What kinds of things is he doing and what does his day look like? In each news...
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Improving nature’s antibiotic 24 January 2024'What nature made isn’t necessarily an optimized medicine to use in the human body,’ says Professor of Biological Chemistry Nathaniel Martin. That’s w...
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Marcello is the new scientific director of LIACS: 'It's time to give something back to the institute' 23 January 2024He came to the Netherlands for three months and never left. Marcello Bonsangue is the new scientific director of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Comp...
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A quick call with Eric van Hoof on online privacy, knights’ shields and looking left, right and left again 23 January 2024With Sunday 28 January the annual European Data Protection Day, we are drawing attention to data protection and the right to privacy. Because it’s oka...
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Five questions on why we are talking about academic freedom 23 January 2024On 14 February, we will discuss the role of academics in the public debate and how this relates to academic freedom. All students and staff of the uni...
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PhD candidates deserve special attention: their new confidential counsellor Annemarie Meijer explains why 23 January 2024She studied biology in Leiden and never left. Now, as Professor of Immunobiology, Annemarie Meijer has taken on the role of the new confidential couns...
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Cisca Wijmenga new member of Board of Governors 22 January 2024The Board of Governors is pleased to announce that Professor Cisca Wijmenga has been appointed by outgoing Minister of Education, Culture and Science ...
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John Concannon, Director General of the Global Ireland Unit visits Leiden University 22 January 2024The Leiden interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges and the Embassy of Ireland are co-hosting a special m...
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Would you like to improve your interdisciplinary collaboration? This symposium will give you practical tips 22 January 2024On Thursday 1 February, the symposium ‘On interdisciplinary collaboration: How do we foster connections?’ will take place. The event will discuss less...
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper 22 January 2024This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabash...
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Leiden University Academy: Deepen, enrich and grow 18 January 2024Leiden University Academy is making lifelong learning even better! The entire range of programmes on offer for professionals has been expanded and uni...
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Una Europa Staff Week: Learning more about Diversity and Inclusion in Bologna 18 January 2024Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) are core values that are a focus for us as a university. But what developments are there in D&I and how can we apply the...
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Students with a connection to Israel or Palestine together in a support group 18 January 2024Psychology lecturer Sepideh Saadat is leading a support group for students affected by the Israel-Hamas war. In four sessions she brings together stud...
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow 18 January 2024The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images re...
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy 17 January 2024Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, th...