824 search results for “from water” in the Staff website
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Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
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Celebrating Twenty Years of MIRD
On March 25, the Advanced Masters of Science in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the programme. The celebrations began with the Reconnect event, bringing current students and alumni together, and concluded with the MIRD Gala. Throughout the day, the tight-knit…
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The quest for the magic angle
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science still can't explain how something so magical can happen, but physicists use special equipment to reveal what is taking place under the surface.
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer
Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outside. In this reading list, you'll find our favourite books for the summer of 2022. If you have any suggestions, let us know via Twitter, Facebook or I…
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Not wrapping but folding: Bacteria also organise their DNA (but they do it a bit differently)
Some bacteria, it turns out, have proteins much like ours that organise the DNA in their cells. They just do it a bit differently. This is revealed by new research from biochemists at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Biology. The discovery helps us better understand…
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Roundtable: Utopia from Within
Debate, Roundtable
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health
Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. What role does the brain play in mental health and what is the influence of the environment? For answers to these questions, listen to the ‘(Un)gendered…
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Archaeozoology is essential to modern environmental management
Lecture
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International Symposium 150 years New Waterway
Conference, Symposium
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Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) 3rd International Conference
Conference
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Offshore windfarms and fishes - APELAFICO NWO-NWA public closing event
Lecture and excursion
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European Citizens’ Initiative and participatory democracy in the EU
Lecture, Seminar
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Impact on Russia's war in Ukraine on ecology of Ukraine and Europe
Debate
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Affective Fish
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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Mediating from Within
PhD defence
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Learning from small samples
PhD defence
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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’
For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can once again go to the office. After a period of working from home, which for some lasted almost two years (with maybe a short break), it can be a big transition.…
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From a fossil to an animal skin: as a museum, do you let the original pass through the hands of your visitors, or a replica?
Educators in European science museums sometimes think rather differently about the definition of an 'authentic' object. They think carefully about how they present those objects to teach visitors something or make them curious. This was shown in research by the Science Communication & Society department.…
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World Peace: visions from Tolstoy
Debate, Seminar
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Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Lecture
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Interactions from Lipid Membrane Deformations
PhD defence
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Hackathon - From Person to Open Data
Hackathon
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OSINT: From Theory, Intelligence to Evidence
Conference
- Futures from the frontiers of climate science
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Fast-Tracking Climate Resilience with AI: a Stakeholder Discussion
Panel discussion
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Seventeenth-century depictions of sacred sites in the Kailasanathar Temple at Nattam, Tamil Nadu
Lecture, Masterclass IIAS/LIAS
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Disentangling drought-responsive traits with focus on Arabidopsis
PhD defence
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Student Talk: Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet
Lecture
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Networks of the future
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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The road to the beginning
Exhibition
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First images from the James Webb telescope
Lecture
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Global Tax Governance: from legitimacy to inclusiveness
Inaugural lecture
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Italy From Facism to Democracy. And Back?
Lecture, Seminar
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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Molecular inheritance from cloud to disk
PhD defence
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From intracluster medium dynamics to particle acceleration
PhD defence
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Lattice Cryptography, from Cryptanalysis to New Foundations
PhD defence
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
Conference, First Annual Symposium of the Leiden Jewish Studies Association
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Webinar: what keeps you from giving feedback?
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Class Battles from Indian Circus: Tales of Labour
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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What Works in Suicide Prevention? Lessons from the 113 Helpline
Lecture
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
- Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields