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How does the European Union deal with distinctiveness?
On 31 January 2024, Alex Schilin defended his dissertation ‘United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Economic and Monetary Union during the Sovereign Debt Crisis.’ What motivated him to research this specific topic, and how did he tackle this project? And…
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Meijerslezing en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024
Meijerslezing, Meijersprijzen en Van Wersch springplankprijs en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…
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A call about: foreign business travel
As of 1 June, foreign travel is again permitted, albeit with certain restrictions. If you want to travel to a red or orange list area, the University’s International Incident Team (IIT) plays an important role. What do they take into account in your application? We asked Leo Harskamp, Head of Security…
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A podium for science
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…
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Office for International Education and internationalisation
Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
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Key for effective application of a new revolutionary cholesterol lowering drug resides in a 30 year old Leiden Patent
‘’ And then the world changed forever ,welcome to the future’’. These are the words that Kausik Ray (President of the European Atherosclerosis Society) spoke when the worldwide first dose of inclisiran, a novel SiRNA based cholesterol lowering agent, was administered at the Cardiology lipid clinic at…
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’
From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science as the common denominator. The university’s Data Science Research Programme (DSO) has proven so successful that after five years on a start-up grant it…
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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‘Sometimes choosing a different path can take you further’
On International Women's Day (8 March) we take time to consider female emancipation and participation. What does this day mean for Leiden University, and how does it tie in with our aim of becoming more diverse and inclusive? We talked about these issues with Annetje Ottow, who recently became the…
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money
How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes it to the market. This is an enormous loss for patients and society. With a grant from the National Growth Fund, Oncode-PACT aims to efficiently select…
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The annual interview is changing: from scores and numbers to more human dimensions
Speaking with your manager more often, focusing explicitly on well-being and giving more recognition and rewards for teamwork and team performance: the annual Performance & Development (P&D) interview will have a new format and also a new name. With the acronym GROW (Gesprekken over Resultaat, Ontwikkeling…
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Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Exploring Open-World Visual Understanding with Deep Learning
PhD defence
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Applications of quantum annealing in combinatorial optimization
PhD defence
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Developmental effects of polystyrene nanoparticles in the chicken embryo
PhD defence
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Bridging the gap between physics and chemistry in early stages of star formation
PhD defence
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Dark Matters
PhD defence
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Computerized Adaptive Testing in Dutch Mental Health Care
PhD defence
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Palladium-catalyzed carbonylative synthesis of carboxylic acid anhydrides from alkenes
PhD defence
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PhD and Post Doc’s Career Event: Finding your career inside or outside of academia
Festival, Career Event
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Ruthenium-peptide conjugates for targeted phototherapy
PhD defence
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Expanding the coverage of ecosystem service impacts in Life Cycle Assessment
PhD defence
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Generalization of placebo and nocebo effects on somatosensory sensations
PhD defence
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Squaramide-based supramolecular polymers
PhD defence
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Widening the horizons of outer space law
PhD defence
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United in Distinctiveness
PhD defence
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The Continuity and Discontinuity of Fundamental Military Concepts in Russian Military Thought Between 1856 and 2010
PhD defence
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Met zachte drang
PhD defence
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A new impetus for EU enlargement?
Lecture, Seminar
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Probing Cosmic Monsters: Confronting Hydrodynamic Simulations with New Observations of High-density Environments
PhD defence
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Forum Antiquum Lectures Spring 2023: The Revisionist Muse: Recent retellings of Greco-Roman myths from a female perspective
Lecture
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Forces and Symmetries in Cells and Tissues
PhD defence
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Fundamental Research on the Voltammetry of Polycrystalline Gold
PhD defence
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The Intertopian Mode in the Depiction of Turkey-originated Migrants in European Cinema
PhD defence
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
PhD defence
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Digging in Documents - Using Text Mining to Access the Hidden Knowledge in Dutch Archaeological Excavation Reports
PhD defence
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Republiek op drift?
PhD defence
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Decisions under Financial Scarcity
PhD defence
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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UMADA Project Launch
Conference
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Before Temples
PhD defence
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Peaceful Alternatives to Asymmetric Conflict
PhD defence
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Lexical Tone in Word Activation
PhD defence