1,791 search results for “nwo” in the Public website
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Delta-Institute for Theoretical Physics
Zaanen
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Postdoctoral Research
It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding in order to advance in their career.
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Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in China and Indonesia
A political-legal study of rights invocation by pollution victims in China and Indonesia
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In the media
The research at the Living lab attracts a great deal of press attention. Please find below a small selection of the many news reports that have been published. Also take a look at the Zembla programme about the Living Lab.
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Field Labs: Testing Intersectional Approaches to Inclusive Actions
Subproject of the NWO Smart Culture Grant research project 'The Critical Visitor'.
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The added value of multimedia to repeated story book reading in preschool age
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Narrative reflective self-understanding: the corporeal
This PhD project analyses the politics and aesthetics of depictions of torture in American and European ‘war on terror’ films.
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Postdoctoral Research
It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding to advance in their careers.
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Memory and Identity
Research conducted in this group aims at furthering our understanding of how communities and individuals deal with social change, conflict and trauma through remembrance and commemoration as well as forgetting in the arts.
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Twisted light and helical structures
Wolfgang Lüffler
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Nabataean Aramaic
A living language?
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Partners
Psychology Lab on Wheels is possible thanks to the support of our partners.
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Following vaccines in the body
Myrra Carstens
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Light relief
How can new compounds relieve cancer patients of severe side effects?
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Manioc roots
Prehistory of Amazonia seen from the kitchen
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Chromatin dynamics in single genes
John van Noort
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Concrete arithmetic between geometry and number theory
Bruin
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Mathematics cluster STAR tenure track
Perform cutting-edge research in the area of the STAR mathematics cluster.
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Unravelling proteins by touch
How can we develop a new microscope that can distinguish individual atoms in proteins?
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Elucidating the catalytic properties of gold
How does CO adsorption on gold promote its own oxidation and the oxidation of other organic molecules?
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Formation of synthetic fuel: new insights!
Navarro Paredes
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Applying for research
The portfolio of eLaw includes research executed for the European Commission, NWO (the national research council in the Netherlands), the national government, local government agencies, large corporations, SMEs and NGOs.
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From molecules to planets: Exploring the chemical heritage of solar systems
Walsh
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Spherical mosaics from different tiles
What are 'defects' and mechanical properties of mosaics of different shapes of tiles?
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Seeking the boundaries of quantum mechanics
Bouwmeester
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Towards a comprehensive and predictive theory of catalysis based on simple structure-activity relations
Can we tailor catalysts at the atomic scale by means of high-school chemistry and geometry rules?
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The eel, a swimming paradox
Why is the swimming efficiency of the European eel higher than predicted?
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Graphene as biological sensor
How distance-dependent is graphene as biological sensor?
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Unravelling the chlorine production reaction
How can we make the production of chlorine cheaper and more friendly for the environment?
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Why don't drugs make it to the market?
How can we extend the drug residence time to combat diseases more effectively?
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Favourable developments for numbers
What is the relationship between probability experiments and cryptographic applications?
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Quest for new antibiotics
Gubbens
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Extreme phenomena in soft materials
What are the mechanics of soft materials (e.g. foam, sand)?
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Guiding blood vessels with laser light
How can lasers control the growth of new blood vessels?
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Applied String Theory: Explaining Quantum Matter with Black Holes
Schalm
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The densest matter in nature
What is neutron star matter?
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Gravitation, strings, and strongly interactive matter
What is the connection between materials with weak and strong gravitational interactions?
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Reversing cardiovascular diseases
How can the development of constrictions in the blood vessels be reversed?
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Making big data meaningful for a promising start
All children deserve a promising start. Most children are doing fine. But some need extra support, because of problems during pregnancy or because they grow up in disadvantaged circumstances, e.g. due to poverty, parental addictions or psychological problems.
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Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID)
Why are not all children equally responsive to variations in the social environment?
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Microscale Analytical Tools
Enabling volume-restricted metabolomics using next-generation microscale analytical tools.
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SCALES project
How to strike a balance between the sometimes conflicting stakes of individual, public and private data-producers and data-processors?
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Exploring hidden villages in colonial and non-colonial landscapes
A project to explore the configuration of different types of settlement and its role in the evolution of landscape, both in pre-Roman times and in the so-called Colonial landscape. We used several techniques of field survey, pottery classification and other non-invasive approaches to the archaeological…
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Hall of Fame 2021
In 2021 many of our students and staff won fantastic prizes and were awarded important research grants. This is our traditional review of these successes as the end of one year marks the beginning of another.
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Hall of Fame 2023
In 2023, many of our students and staff won great prizes and secured important research grants.
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Overview
The Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy (SPP) aims to develop precision medicine approaches to characterise and predict variation in treatment response and enhance translational drug development strategies.
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New research centre for studying planet and star formation
The ALMA Local Expertise Group (Allegro) is located in the Leiden Observatory (Sterrewacht). Professor Ewine van Dishoeck: ‘The Netherlands has played an important role in establishing ALMA. Thanks to this subsidy, we can now reap the scientific benefits.'
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch Research Council pilot programme.
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Hall of Fame 2020
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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Statistics when your models are wrong
Peter Grunwald