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1,392 search results for “discovery of the yuan” in the Staff website

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  Merel Vesseur-van Leeuwen Management/Office assistant

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Ashleigh Morris PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Zara Ali
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  Judith Naeff University Lecturer International Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Remco Breuker Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Nina Schmal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2024 News - 21 October 2024

  Successfully completing a master’s thesis in Political Science is no small feat. Not only is this for most students the most extensive and in-depth research report they have ever written, the work is also held to very high standards. Yet, every year students manage to impress their instructors and demonstrate…

• Ancient humans may have been making fire 350.000 years earlier than previously thought News - 18 December 2025

  Buried beneath a Suffolk forest, archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known human-made fire. A fire that was sparked 400,000 years ago. This stunning UK discovery may rewrite our evolutionary story, potentially pushing fire-making back by more than 350,000 years.

• Food for Thought “Generation of the Future” Event - 19 May 2026

  Lecture, Food for Thought

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  Jürgen Zangenberg Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Step-by-step plan towards more impact Roadmap and examples

  An important question being asked, both in the academic world and in society, concerns the impact of our research and education. By providing a well-supported answer, we not only create a strong position for our research, we also increase our chances of success in applying for research grants and retaining…

• Step-by-step plan towards more impact

  An important question being asked, both in the academic world and in society, concerns the impact of our research and education. By providing a well-supported answer, we not only create a strong position for our research, we also increase our chances of success in applying for research grants and retaining…

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• Global network puts spotlight on quantum software News - 10 February 2026

  Quantum software is essential to make quantum technology work. Research centers QuSoft and aQa work together at the forefront of the Netherlands’ quantum software efforts. With the launch of the Quantum Software Alliance (QSA), this collaboration now scales globally.

• ‘The sun is dying out’ as a wake-up call for better science communication News - 7 June 2024

  ‘Take science communication more seriously.’ This is the message that Ivo van Vulpen, professor by special appointment in Science Communication in Physics, wants to convey during his inaugural lecture. At the moment, a lot of researchers look down their noses at this while it is extremely important…

• Celebrating 40 Years of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences News - 19 December 2024

  During our special Fall symposium on November 28, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences. Organized in collaboration with our study association L.P.S.V. „Aesculapius”, the event brought together staff, students, and alumni for an afternoon focused on four decades of ‘Innovation…

• Astronomers Discover Ancient Solitary Quasars with Mysterious Origins News - 18 October 2024

  An international team of astronomers, including Leiden PhD student Elia Pizzati, has observed several ancient quasars that, surprisingly, appear to be floating alone in the early universe (less than a billion years after the Big Bang). Until now, astronomers, based on models, assumed that quasars are…

• A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings News - 11 January 2024

  A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest.

• Staying a step ahead of infections that threaten safe transfusion and transplantation News - 30 March 2026

  Preventing viral infections from being transmitted through blood transfusion and organ transplantation lies at the heart of the work of medical microbiologist and virologist Mariet Feltkamp and her team.

• Revolution in Archaeology: Virtual Excavation with AI iDig News - 24 March 2026

  The days of an archaeologist studying soil traces with a shovel in hand seem to be numbered. Digital archaeologists will soon launch the first version of software capable of carrying out a virtual excavation.

• Chinese Calligraphy for everybody Course

  Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

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  Lisa Cheng Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Natalia Ortiz – Winner of the 2019 - 2020 KNCV Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology thesis prize News - 10 June 2021

  Natalia Ortiz (Division of Drug Discovery and Safety) has been awarded the 2019-2020 PhD-thesis prize by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology, from the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV-MCCB). The KNCV-MCCB thesis prize is a biannual award which is granted to the best PhD thesis…

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  Olivier Béquignon Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

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  Micha Drukker Professor

  Faculty of Science

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  Henk-Jan Guchelaar Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

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  Ben Wielstra Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

• Nienke van der Marel receives New Horizons Prize News - 15 September 2023

  Nienke van der Marel has been awarded the New Horizons Prize in physics for her pioneering research on planet formation. This prize is given to young, promising researchers in physics or mathematics. The astronomer and her colleagues found the first observational evidence for 'dust traps' in disks around…

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  Harry Fokkens Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Janine Ubink Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Alejandra Roche Recinos Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Rogier Hartendorp Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Evert de Jonge Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Medicine

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  Nanou van Iersel PhD candidate / guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Hans Franken Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  David Holmes Professor

  Faculty of Science

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  Willem Zwalve Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Michael Klos Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Jaris Darwin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Henrik Nieratschker PhD Candidate / Self Funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sander Tetteroo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Burcu Yildirim NINO Visiting Research Fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aurora de Leeuw Administrative Officer, Board of Examiners Secretariat

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Lisa Harms Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Matthew Canfield Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Jimmy Mans Head of Research Affairs

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Mignon de Lange Lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• From droplets in the freezer to the inception of a potent new antibiotic News - 19 June 2024

  What started as an idea during a social gathering led to an unexpected breakthrough in research on resistant bacteria. Biologists and chemists from Leiden developed a new substance that proves to be effective against bacteria resistant to antibiotics. They published their discovery in Nature Chemist…