667 search results for “dark energy” in the Staff website
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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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‘Jasper is the dean Leiden Science needs’
Two deans: one leaving and one just arriving. Paul Wouters was deputising at the Faculty from March up to December. As of January he returns to his 'ordinary' role as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Jasper Knoester is taking over from him, as he will be leaving Groningen for Leiden. How did…
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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A call about: Scholars Programme Europaeum
On 28 October 2021 there is an online information session about the two-year Scholars Programme of Europaeum. This network brings young researchers and leaders together to discuss developments in Europe and to promote pan-European thinking. Does that sound interesting to you? Would you like to know…
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’
The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic ageing, climate and migration. Even though we know they play a big role in our future.’ Hoekstra therefore hopes that the new coalition agreement will…
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International Symposium 150 years New Waterway
Conference, Symposium
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Well-being moment for staff: Spring lunch walk
Lunch walk
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Online Coach Café for young alumni
Alumni event
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BOOK TALK: Offshore Attachments Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIMS seminar | Book Talk
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Meet the Europe Hub
Conference, Launch event
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Sustainability
Lecture
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Leiden Anthropological Conference: The Campus with a Future
Conference
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Fundamental Research on the Voltammetry of Polycrystalline Gold
PhD defence
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Stability in unstable times: how the European Central Bank handles inflation
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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European Citizens’ Initiative and participatory democracy in the EU
Lecture, Seminar
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Dutch Network Science Society Symposium 2022
Conference
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Thiosugars: Reactivity, methodology and applications
PhD defence
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Applications of AdS/CFT to strongly correlated matter: from numerics to experiments
PhD defence
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Administrative burden in universities: Key dimensions, potential drivers, and implications for university-based research
CWTS Seminar
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference
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(CANCELLED) The UK, the Netherlands, and Ukraine. How strong bilateral relations are crucial for multilateral diplomacy
Lecture, Seminar
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Exhibitions Examined: the value and challenges of visitor research in science museums
Conference
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Spectral imaging and tomographic reconstruction methods for industrial applications
PhD defence
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Kleptocracy and Foreign Policy Change
PhD defence
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - The value of conflict in sustainability transitions
Lecture
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How work-life balance can bring less stress and more joy in our life
Personal development, Working effectively
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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University interpretation on war Ukraine
Lecture
- Materialising Prehistoric Societies in Western Asia
- Urban Health Programme
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LUCIR Talk: Protecting Nuclear Power Plants During War: Implications from Ukraine
Lecture
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Liveable planet lecture & drinks - Mobilizing the Dutch climate research community to accelerate system transitions
Lecture
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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European defence cooperation in a time of renewed military activity
Lecture, Seminar
- Healthy University Week 2023
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Medical Delta Professor Eline Slagboom: ‘The delta region is where everything comes together’
Professor Eline Slagboom has been studying multiple generations of families for over 20 years. She collects data on why some people age healthily and others decline early.
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Ten lecturers receive Senior Teaching Qualification
On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We asked some of them what this qualification means to them, what they believe ‘good teaching’ entails and what makes them so passionate about education…
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Flash interview with alumnus and new Faculty Advisory Council member Yousef Yousef
Yousef Yousef is a 'self-made man'. But he first obtained his bachelor's degree in tax law in Leiden. 'A CEO needs to have a basic understanding of the principles of law', he says.
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi
Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the algorithm that made him successful, the role of a university in our society and his ambitions at Siemens. ‘I was looking for Siemens, and they were looking…
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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'The show must go on, but making politics less tedious is an almost effortless job these days!'
After almost a year of working from home during this Covid pandemic, Scientific Director Paul Nieuwenburg conveys how the Institute of Political Science is sailing through waves and lockdowns: from transformation to bi location to 'non location', from teaching on the beach to teaching to 'black cubes'…
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Free-riding on scrappage subsidies
Lecture
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Standing up for science workshop
Course
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Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
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European Mining Conference: Developments in Deep-Sea Mining and the EU Critical Raw Materials Act
Conference
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Workshop The reliable pelvis
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Today’s experimental quantum research at Leiden University: from the microscopic to the macroscopic
Lecture, Studium Generale