741 search results for “power” in the Staff website
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers
From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: six Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction'
Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together with her team, she organised the controversial exhibition ‘Revolusi! Indonesië onafhankelijk!’ What did studying History teach her?
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A new administrative culture starts with us
A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it? By all of us striving to change together: not just politicians, but also stakeholders, civil servants, media, and civilians. That was the conclusion…
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New FNV union representative introduces herself
Leiden University has a new FNV representative: Thecla Meyknecht. Employees can come to her with questions and problems related to the workplace. ‘All managers should receive targeted training in which they learn to be proud of their human capital.’
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New book by Tom Buitelaar on the cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court in Congo
On 22 November, Tom Buitelaar, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, presents his new book ‘Assisting International Justice’. Five questions to Buitelaar about the book and the book presentation.
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How the world can achieve climate goals with clean hydrogen production
Hydrogen can help to solve the climate problem. At least, if we start producing it in the right, clean way. Leiden researchers mapped out the global environmental impact of hydrogen production and looked ahead to 2050. They published their work in Energy & Environmental Science.
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‘The child protection system really isn’t in good order’
Last Thursday the Dutch House of Representatives held a debate on children being put into care when the childcare benefits scandal (toeslagenaffaire) had caused problems for their families. Four Leiden University academics were asked by the House to produce a fact sheet for this debate, bringing together…
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Rubicon grant for Remko Fermin: superconducting diodes for energy-efficient data centres
Physicist Remko Fermin from Leiden University was awarded a Rubicon grant from NWO. He will use it to study superconducting diodes that could contribute to reducing the CO2 emission of data centres.
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Young, sleeping memory cells are crucial in fighting a reinfection
Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Oncode have created a tracking system that can reveal how often cells have divided. This allowed them to find a yet undiscovered population of immune cells: young memory cells that behave like stem cells.…
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Leiden quantum technology research very successful in funding call
No less than six Leiden projects received a grant for quantum research from the national growth programme Quantum Delta NL and the NWO. After all, in order to boost quantum technology not only industry is needed, but also science. Research towards new sensors, faster algorithms and quantum materials,…
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Student and staff representatives raring to go: ‘Connection is the key to success’
The new academic year also marks the start of a new term for our student and staff representatives. Dozens of them – some experienced, others new to the game – are itching to represent the interests of the university’s students and staff. On the Training Day for Student and Staff Representatives, they…
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How the EU is trying to deter economic coercion of countries
The EU is aiming to deter economic coercion with a new legal instrument. Freya Baetens will elucidate this in her inaugural lecture on October 27th.
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023
Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdisciplinary research. In that respect, a huge amount happened at Leiden University in 2023.
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Niels Laurens: ‘We’re no longer a small faculty’
Since a few months, Executive Director Niels Laurens no longer has to divide his attention between two faculties but has been able to fully focus on FGGA. A conversation about the dynamics within our Faculty, his management style, and the steps we will all have to take together to improve issues such…
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‘It’s a complete stalemate in Belarus’
What with coronavirus, the American elections and the Brexit botheration, we had almost forgotten that something miraculous happened in 2020: the repressed people of Belarus rallied against dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years. Months later, what remains of the protest?…
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Alumnus Dave Wesselink: lawyer and professional bobsledder
Leiden Law School alumnus Dave Wesselink began his career as a lawyer in 2022. He’s also a professional bobsledder. ‘When you’re tearing round a bend at 130km/hour, you need to be able to stay calm and focused on what you’re doing.’
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Workshop Peer feedback with FeedbackFruits
Didactics
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Exhibition Imagine Intuition
Exhibition
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Intersecting Global Trends: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
- Lunchbyte Chatgpt
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Intimate Legal Interactions meeting- Maggie Nelson on freedom
Debate
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“Book Diplomacy” in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Conference
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Context matters: Law society relations in water governance in Laos and Myanmar
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Mongol Loyalty Networks
PhD defence
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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LUCIR/Grotius Centre Book Talk: Ideology and Mass Killing
Lecture
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Course for (new) members of Leiden University boards of examiners
Didactics
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Streaming Piety: Religion in Turkish Television Drama
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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ReCNTR Work-in-progress Workshop: Photo Edition
Lecture
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Pedagogies of Occupation: Free Time, Professionalization and Protest in Urban Brazil
Lecture, Research Seminar
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CCLS Seminar Vincent Merckx
Lecture, webinar
- Global Questions Seminar
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Open Science Coffee: How to justify your sample size?
Lecture
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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Webinar: what keeps you from giving feedback?
- SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
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The Revival of World War II in China: Multiple Histories, Malleable Memories
Lecture
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LIACS Research Seminar - nr 1
Lecture
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Seeking the Truth through Journalism: A discussion with The New York Times’s Visual Investigations
Webinar
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Research Seminar
Conference, Research Seminar
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Multi-Layer Models and Activation Functions Workshop
Workshop Series
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Spin Transport and Superconductivity in Half-metallic Nanowires and Junctions
PhD defence
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LDE Space Day
Conference
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Status and trends in Open Science: open to what and for whom? The UNESCO OS Outlook
Seminar
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A brief introduction to GPU programming and optimization
Lecture
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
- PCNI Research Seminars 2022-2023
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VVIK Lecture: Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states
Lecture, VVIK Lecture