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Share your thoughts: How can we help you prepare for your future career? 04 July 2024
Help us find out what you need to succeed in your future career. Share your thoughts on how the Science Skills and Career Team can best support your p...
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Robert Smit receives his PhD with distinction. ‘I am happy to be back in the lab’ 04 July 2024
An all-optical transistor, a molecule-sized sensor and a new kind of single-photon source for quantum communication. All dreamed applications of funda...
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Losing count: the mathematical magic of counting curves 04 July 2024
How can you figure out which points lie on a certain curve? And how many possible curves do you count by a given number of points? These are the kinds...
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Ethics committee for partnerships launched 02 July 2024
The ‘Committee for Assessing Ethical Aspects of Partnerships’ is being launched this month. This committee, created by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl a...
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Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery 01 July 2024
Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that estab...
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Students work on a cold case: ‘We look in a different way than the police’ 01 July 2024
Sixteen master’s students from a variety of disciplines are helping The Hague Police to find new clues in a cold case. ‘The photographs are like the o...
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'One in five bacteria we tested were capable of breaking down plastic' 27 June 2024
Leiden PhD candidate Jo-Anne Verschoor discovered that nearly twenty percent of the bacterial strains she studied could degrade plastic, though they n...
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery 27 June 2024
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building fe...
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Academics start campaign against government cuts 27 June 2024
Academics from Leiden University have started a campaign against cuts at universities. From 26 June to 11 July, they are giving lunchtime pitches in L...
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Jasper's Day 27 June 2024
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, J...
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Looking for atmospheres in the ultimate quest for extraterrestrial life 26 June 2024
To look for atmospheres around planets outside our solar system is to look for extraterrestrial life. Astronomist Sebastian Zieba used data from the J...
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Video: Leiden archaeologists digging in Oss 26 June 2024
Leiden archaeologists have been digging into the municipality of Oss’s past for 50 years now and students have gained their first experience of fieldw...
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Berber Verhalle new assessor Faculty of Science 25 June 2024
From September 2024, Berber Verhalle is the new assessor of the Faculty of Science. She thus takes over from Nalani Verwoord. Berber completed her bac...
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Circular fuel: researchers and technicians work hand in hand on tomorrow’s solutions 24 June 2024
From a meaningless block of plastic to an advanced component that contributes to the energy transition. The technicians and scientists of our faculty ...
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Dozens of security measures for academics 24 June 2024
Between November 2022 and December 2023, 45 one-off and 14 structural security measures were taken for academics or university staff. This is what it ...