2,175 search results for “life science” in the Public website
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Ton van Raan
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Peter Castenmiller
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Barend Mons
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Laurens van Gestel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Leiden Science strategy: Connecting through Curiosity
What does our faculty stand for and what will we do in the next five years? We are proud to present our new strategic plan that we made together. On this website you will find more information about what our Faculty stands for and what our course is for the coming years
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Life after a life sentence
The state should prepare 'lifers' better for returning to society, for example by giving them some control over their own lives. This is the finding of Marieke Liem in her book 'After Life Imprisonment', published on 19 August.
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Lauran van Oers
Science
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Mathilde Verdam
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mona Delval
Science
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Chengjian Xu
Science
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Xinpeng Jin
Science
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Ana Arias Calvo
Science
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Jessica Kiefte-de Jong
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Nethmi Sewwandi Kankanamge Dona
Science
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Carina Harpprecht
Science
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Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
Astronomer and Marxist Anton Pannekoek was a remarkable figure. This book aims to study the connections between his life as a socialist theorist and as a pioneering scientist through the prism of Pannekoek's biography.
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Jewishness in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and David Vogels's 'Married Life'
In this study I explore literary structures of identity-formation in the works of assimilated/acculturated Jewish writers: Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” (“Die Verwandlung”, 1912) and David Vogel’s Hebrew novel Married Life. 1929).
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Determining global distribution of microplastics by using citizen science
The objective of this study is to better understand the distribution of microplastics in the environment. More specifically, we will quantify the abundance and distribution of microplastics on beaches.
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The research-teaching nexus in the sciences: Scientific research dispositions and teaching practice
This dissertation describes several studies concerning the research-teaching nexus in the sciences.
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Get to know Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
How do countries collaborate to impact climate change? How does inequality affect life expectancy? How can diplomacy help reduce international conflict? These are the types of questions you get to explore in the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Leiden University College through the central theme…
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Get to know Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
How do countries collaborate to impact climate change? How does inequality affect life expectancy? How can diplomacy help reduce international conflict? These are the types of questions you get to explore in the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Leiden University College through the central theme…
- Science teaching in Secondary Education (MSc)
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Examining science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in the context of a professional development program
This dissertation reports on the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of science teachers during a professional development program. This research intended to help us understand why and how teachers make their classroom decisions as they teach science.
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Vision and Mission statement International Network Open Science & Scholarship Communities
Read more about the International Network Open Science & Scholarship Communities in our Vision and Mission statements.
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Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences…
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UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science
This UNESCO Chair at CWTS aims to contribute to UNESCO’s agenda to foster diversity and inclusion in science. The chair has two main lines of work:
- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
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Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries.
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UnMiSSeD - Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates
UnMiSSeD studies the interaction between misinformation and science in societal debates using a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach.
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Together we can make an impact
Our mission: a positive impact. Our vision: community. By involving the world around us in our education and research we make a positive impact. We do this by applying Open Science.
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Investigating the contribution of interpreters, informants, hunters and guides in the making of colonial scientific knowledge.
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Feelings in "Abnormal" Worlds, On the Political Uses of Emotion in Science Fiction Manga
Carl Li defended his thesis on 30 June 2015
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analysis of stakeholder interests and conflicts in and around Big Science
Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…
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Partnerships between police and science in Belgium : fragile alliances?
After 20 years of police reform, Jasper De Paepe and Marleen Easton look back and discover what we can learn about partnerships between police and science in Belgium.
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The academic life dissected
Every student learns about science, but those of the Master Honours Class ‘The Academic Life’ went an extra mile. They learned all the ins-and-outs of academia and rounded off this successful lecture series with a final session on evaluating scientific research.
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Applied statistics as a pillar of data science
Data science is now growing fast in many places, but scholars at Leiden University have been developing data science techniques for a long time already. Thanks to their broad-based expertise, Leiden statisticians are currently combining the achievements in statistics with the latest methods of statistical…
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Working at the Faculty of Science
Working for a top faculty? Discover the vacancies at the Faculty of Science and apply immediately.
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Relating to the end of life through advance care planning: Expectations and experiences of people with dementia and their family caregivers
Dementia is widely considered a progressive condition associated with changes in cognitive capacities, which promotes the idea that people with dementia need to anticipate end-of-life care preferences. There is a growing body of interventions meant to support advance care planning (ACP) for people with…
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EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
LIACS is a partner in the EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development for the Asian education system. The knowledge available in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence education will be shared and adapted for the Asian market.
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This is life: some thoughts on self-organized structure formation in active liquids and biological systems
It has been a long-standing mystery how complex biological structures emerge from such seemingly uncoordinated building blocks as cells and tissues, in the presence of only minimal environmental guidance.
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The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945
How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of modernist urban renewal, up to the present-day…
- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
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Locations
Most degree programmes at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences are based in the Pieter de la Court building on the Wassenaarseweg in Leiden. Besides this location, some degree programmes are based in The Hague, at Campus The Hague’s Wijnhaven building.
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Bio Science Park to become Bio Science Campus
The Leiden Bio Science Park (BSP) will become a real campus in the coming years, with more houses, and attractive places where scientists, students and entrepreneurs can meet to discuss their plans.
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Education
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences provides its ca. 5000 students with a thorough education in the social and behavioural sciences. The student population is very diverse and international in nature.
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2 Lecturer positions (0.6-1.0 FTE) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, and AI
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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Stefano Cucurachi
Science
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Sustainable demolition of the Faculty of Science building
The demolition of the high-rise building is ready. The remaining debris are removed and the area is cleared. For the demolition, the University applied the BREEAM evaluation method at the level of ‘Excellent’, which means that the demolition operations were carbon neutral and did not cause any form…
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Data Science for State-of-the-Art Blood Banking (BloodStart)
There are around 300,000 people in the Netherlands who donate blood on a regular basis. Women can give blood up to three times a year and men up to five times, resulting in approximately one million blood donations each year. Patients that receive this donated blood are already in a vulnerable condition,…
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Data-Driven Drug Discovery Network (D4N)
The Data-Driven Drug Discovery Network (D4N) is an initiative by researchers from Leiden University and collaborators to join efforts in applying and developing novel techniques from data science to drug discovery and related topics from bioinformatics.