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Skating faster thanks to data science
The Netherlands has a lot of world-class speed skaters and footballers. Clever statistical analyses could help them perform even better. Leiden University is working on this together with Delft and Amsterdam.
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In Memoriam Emeritus Professor G. van Dijk
Gerrit van Dijk was born on 14th August 1939 in Kampen. He studied Mathematics in Utrecht where he also received his PhD in 1969 on the thesis ‘Spherical functions on the p-adic group PGL(2)’. His supervisor was prof. dr. T.A. Springer. The academic year 1969-1970 he spent in Princeton, at the Institute…
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Honours students mount an exhibition on ‘the other’
Master’s students in the Honours Class ‘Leiden, City of Refugees?’ were asked to contemplate the concept of ‘the other’ from both an academic and an artistic perspective. The result was the exhibition ‘The Invitation’ which was presented at Stadsbauhaus on 4 June.
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Ionica Smeets to give Iris Medal prize money to students
Ionica Smeets is planning to give the prize money that she won with the Iris Medal, a prize for excellent science communication, to student projects.
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Understanding the game of marbles
Not many scientists can claim to have received funding from NWO to blow bubbles and play with sand, but Martin van Hecke definitely can. Van Hecke, Professor of the Organisation of Disordered Matter, delivered his inaugural lecture on Friday 4 September, under the enigmatic title of: ‘Bellen, bollen,…
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Welmoet Wels wins the faculty Jongbloed thesisprize 2015
The world is full of wars, and no war is without its dead. What happens to the bodies of fatal casualties of armed conflict? The winner of the faculty Jongbloed Thesis Prize 2015 is Welmoet Wels (Public International Law). Her thesis Dead body management in armed conflict: paradoxes in trying to do…
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Rachel Doherty wins LION Image Award with famed Microboat image
The annual LION Image award goes to the 30 micrometer long 3D printed microboat image that went viral earlier in October 2020, submitted by Rachel Doherty of the Daniela Kraft lab.
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Graphene is a thoroughbred that has to be tamed
Electrons in graphene behave like light particles; they have no mass and can penetrate everything: very useful if you dream about nano-electronics. But you do have to channel them. Carlo Beenakker will be researching how. He has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 1.5 million euro to carry out this…
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LION Image Awards
On 15 January, the winner of the famed LION Image Award will be announced. Submissions ranged from the famous 3d printed microboat to an eerily abstract graph depicting a Majorana fermion.
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Wim Voermans in Brazil
Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative law, travelled to São Paolo, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro from 14 to 18 March with a delegation from Leiden University with the aim of strengthening ties with Brazil. During the visit agreements were made on future academic collaboration and…
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The Leiden Connection - screenwriter Gerard Soeteman looks back
Gerard Soeteman (1936) created a furore as a screenwriter of films that became classics (Dutch films: Turks Fruit, Soldaat van Oranje, de Aanslag), but personally he is much more attached to his critical documentaries for television. He studied Dutch in Leiden. How did that help him?
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Green Office chasing green ideas
‘A university is a slow-moving institution, which is in many ways a good thing,' commented student Josephine Rook at the opening of the Leiden University Green Office on 27 September in the Hortus botanicus. ‘Sustainability is not about following the latest trends, but about making structural improv…
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Maria de Lourdes Monteiro
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hall of Fame 2016
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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Percutaneous mitral valve plasty in secondary mitral regurgitation
PhD defence
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Tumor-specific targets for imaging in vulvar cancer
PhD defence
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Gabriel Paiuk – Sound Theory (The Clouds)
Arts and culture, Concert
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Imaging of the cardiorenal syndrome and visceral fat
PhD defence
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Complex networks in perspective
Conference
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Is thyroid status a common denominator of age-related disease?
PhD defence
- Seminar 3: Emotionality and Late Medieval Self-Transformative Processes
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Karina Caputi on the early universe
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Tycho de Graaf
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hente de Ruijter
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jelle de Vrijer
ICLON
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Alexander de Wit
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Marijne de Ferrante-Molenaar
ICLON
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Rinske de Kok-Baan
Faculty of Humanities
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Mischa de Rover
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Corrie de Koning
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Michiel de Dood
Science
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Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen de Boer
Science
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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ton de Rooij
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Robin de Koning
ICT Shared Service Centre
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Andre de Jong
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Mandy de Waal
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans de Vries
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Pam de Groot
Faculty of Humanities
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Thea de Gelder
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Luuk de Cock
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Mirjam de Rooy-Driessen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nadine de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bianca de Kroon
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Michelle de Reus
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ceryl de Heer
Bestuursbureau
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Aurora de Leeuw
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Frederik de Wolff
Faculteit Geneeskunde