As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

The master’s specialisation Research in Physics, Quantum Matter and Optics at Leiden University offers a thorough experience on the front line of physics research with a practical training of communicative and computer skills. The programme focuses on Condensed Matter problems, such as Molecular Electronics,…

Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is an ubiquitous part of oil refining that ensures that fuels are cleaned of impurities and environment release of pollutants such as SOx and NOx gasses are minimized.

Make more fluid: In condensed matter systems, electrons can acquire unusual properties from their interaction with the atomic lattice.

List of Support Departments at LION and the Faculty of Science

Even a small quantum computer should be able to simulate exactly the properties and behaviour of new molecules. This would take chemistry to an entirely new level. Better solar panels, more powerful batteries, saving lots of energy in the chemical industry: the applications have the potential to transform…

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

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Comparing the global warming potential (GWP) of the service provided by an iRex Digital Reader to the same service provided by an office printer using a scanning LCA.

With a pioneering project like the quantum computer, it’s a good idea not to place all your bets on a single horse. In Leiden’s Quantum Optics research group, instead of working on a Majorana-based qubit, people are working on a qubit based on an ‘artificial atom’. If that becomes the basis of the quantum…

docARTES is a doctoral programme for performers and composers. It offers a unique environment for critical reflection on musical practice.

Freezing bacteria super fast to gain a true-to-nature image of the internal and external structure. Ariane Briegel Professor of Ultrastructural Biology came to Leiden specially to carry out this research. Leiden University is one of the few institutes in the world to have the necessary equipment. Inaugural…

The CMCB brings together a diverse range of unique expertise in microbial cell biology. Members of the CMCB investigate both model and non-model organisms, bacteria and archaea, pathogens and non-pathogens.

Advanced sensing techniques require graphene with high quality and well-controlled surface chemistry.

Please contact us using the contact form below. Alternatively, you may send an email to decolonisingcollective@leidenuniv.nl

We always try to answer questions about the Old Observatory Leiden as well as possible. Choose the subject you have a question about from the dropdown menu below.

For Leiden University’s operations, sustainability is an important topic, especially looking at the CO2-footprint, renewable energy and the greening of buildings.

The project 'Data use, online consumer needs, business strategies and regulatory response' aims to explore and examine the factors that impact upon the efficacy of information disclosure duties pertaining to customer data use in online business.

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

During the Leiden Science Family Day, you will visit places that are normally closed to the public: go backstage at the Faculty of Science!

Can we tailor catalysts at the atomic scale by means of high-school chemistry and geometry rules?

What physics controls the properties of quantum matter, such as how electrons flow inside high-temperature superconductors? This question has captivated the physics community and industry for decades, in part due to the great technological potential such materials have, but also because they have resisted…

On this page you find useful links to cooperating universities, Dutch institutes and other interesting links to information related to Arabic & Islamic studies, Egyptian Archaeology, and learning Dutch.

General contact information of the Young Academy Leiden

Do you want to learn more about the programme? Or are you interested in a collaboration? Please do contact us.

An international team with researchers from Leiden revealed how a bacterium repurposed an internal system to control its movements. Movement control is very important in host invasion, which can lead to disease. Publication on 27 April in Nature Communications.

LAPP is open for volunteering students of the Leiden Law School. Students work alone or in teams on questions of our clients.

Our centre seeks to form a community which connects a network of academics of various disciplines, with organisations interested in public governance.

Would you like to invite Sustainable City Lab for a chat to discuss a sustainability issue, or to explore how we can work together? Or would you like to visit us on campus?

Chemical reactions go hand-in-hand with an energy exchange with the environment in which they take place. Surfaces offer a variety of energy dissipation channels, constituted by the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom of the atoms at the interface. Aiming at an improved future harvesting of energy,…

Research report January 2020. Supported by the lectorate ‘Music, Education and Society’, research group ‘Making in Music’, Royal Conservatoire The Hague

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Prof.dr. J. Matysik (Universitaet Leipzig)

This thesis covers various applications of topology in condensed matter physics and quantum information.

PhD defence

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma, Co-promotor: R.N. Frese

The International Institute of Air and Space Law, founded in 1985, collaborates with many world-class academic institutions.

The Sport Data Center (SDC) consists of the data science disciplines of Leiden University and Technical University Delft, combined with the sport science branches of the Amsterdam Institute for Sport Science and the Sport Engineering Institute of the Technical University of Delft.

There are a number of different people in the Faculty of Humanities who deal with aspects of diversity and inclusion. This web page has been developed to make it easier to find the contact details for the right person for you.

The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) is a select group of young academics at Leiden University. Founded in early 2019, it serves as a platform to bring young, enthusiastic and driven early career (post-PhD) academics together.

Healthy University Leiden aims to promote a working environment where staff and students can do their jobs responsibly, healthily and in positive surroundings, and where they can achieve their potential.

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Read here about the Leiden University Green Office, the Green Office movement and meet our team.

Despite the fact that gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most studied nanoparticles, there is still a necessity for new approaches allowing for effective protective coating to enable wider use of GNPs in biomedical applications.

Data Science

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