1,356 search results for “discovery of the yuan” in the Staff website
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse Wichers SchreurFaculty of Humanities
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Yenching Academy of Peking University
Bachelor, Master
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Homo erectus from the sea: new discoveries from the Sunda Shelf
Lecture
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Piecing together the regulatory puzzle: Advancing natural product discovery in Actinobacteria
PhD defence
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Last starlight for space telescope Gaia
ESA’s space telescope Gaia, which maps the Milky Way, completes its active phase of scanning the sky on 15 January. Over the past decade, Gaia has made more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other cosmic objects. ‘Gaia is already the discovery machine of the decade,’ Leiden…
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‘Never stop trying’: Barz sees his polymers enter clinical trials
A new class of polymers has been used in patients for the first time. The compound is the first new drug solubilising agent in decades. Introduced in 2014 by chemist Matthias Barz from Leiden University, it offers a unique alternative to current options.
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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Ancient magnetic fields: What do they tell us about the early years of the universe?
Are magnetic fields older than the first light? And how did they influence the development of our universe right after the Big Bang? Cosmologists from Leiden, Groningen, and Utrecht are now collaborating to investigate this.
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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Anita LiaoFaculty of Science
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Cecilia BergonziniFaculty of Science
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Nominees bachelor's thesis prize Political Science 2025
The nominees for the IRO Thesis Prize 2025 and the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2025. Who authored the best thesis in Leiden University’s bachelor’s programme in Political Science?
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Karsten Lambers appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology
In January, Dr Karsten Lambers was appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology at Leiden University's Faculty of Archaeology. With his extensive background in both archaeological research and computational sciences, the installation of Professor Lambers further strengthens this discipline…
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Migration scholar Katharina Natter wins Gratama Science Prize
For her research into migration policy under different political regimes, Katharina Natter has been awarded the Gratama Science Prize for young, talented researchers.
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles
After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky was involved from the start. ‘We know there is physics that’s missing and we aim to find it.’
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Binary star reveals: planet formation doesn’t always happen in sync
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star at which planet formation has finished, while the same-aged companion star still has a planet-forming disk. The researchers…
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Even a duck can parrot
That a parrot can copycat sounds is nothing new. But vocal learning is not common in animals. Researcher Carel ten Cate of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) of Leiden University has now discovered a duck species that can imitate sounds. ‘It started with an obscure reference about an Australian musk…
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More than just blue domes and camels: new Louvre film on Uzbek artefacts
Terracotta pottery, precious ikat fabrics and the bazaars where these goods are sold: all these can be seen in a new Louvre film premiering on Friday 9 December. University lecturer Elena Paskaleva collaborated on the film Uzbekistan a timeless journey in Central Asia about Uzbek artefacts.
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Rare isotopes in our neighbouring stars provide new insights in the origin of carbon and oxygen
Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighbouring stars for the first time, providing a new window to better understand the chemical evolution of the cosmos.The results are published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2024: the nominees
The thesis is a major milestone for master students graduating in Political Science. It demonstrates their ability to conduct research independently and to provide a thorough, objective and sound analysis. That requires instruction, discussion, thinking and hard work. Lots of it. In some cases this…
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Lorenzo NieuwenburgFaculty of Law
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Daniel BertramFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Michèle VerbergFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Meriem RebbaniFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Wiebke WiesigelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Liselotte KleineFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maaike VeldkampFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rhea MammenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lorike WaldusFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ilone de Vries-LemaireFaculty of Archaeology
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Liz Alden WilyFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eric OlijdamFaculty of Archaeology
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Lisette PluimgraaffFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Pauline MemelinkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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RARE-NL: LUMC joins consortium to find treatments for rare diseases
RARE-NL, a new collaboration between university hospitals, hopes to find treatments for rare diseases. Professor Teun van Gelder is representing the LUMC in the initiative.
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Ecologist Michiel Veldhuis is the Discoverer of the Year 2020
Michiel Veldhuis received the most public votes for the C.J. Kok Public Award and may therefore call himself Discoverer of the Year. Veldhuis researches how climate change affects savannah ecosystems in Africa and how we can protect them.
- AI: The teacher that can save our education
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Danen new Dean of the Graduate School of Science
The Graduate School of Science starts 2024 with a new Dean. The Faculty Council appointed Erik Danen for the coming four years. He succeeds Eric Eliel, who has held the position since May 2020.
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Jean-Paul Ouedraogo
Faculty of Science