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Recommendations from the Student Well-being Taskforce
We know from national and international research that many students struggle with psychological problems. How about students in Leiden? Leiden University's Student Well-being Taskforce wants to see more research and has also come up with some advice, ranging from personal buddies and digital support…
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From refugees to expats: Dr Dennis helps them all
Patients who can’t afford medicine. Refugees who need help. Expats who are ill. All alongside research into obesity. Having trained as a doctor, Dennis Mook-Kanamori chose the hard reality of life as a GP together with a job as a researcher at the LUMC.
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‘Like Don Quichot, you have to keep dreaming’
Having a bachelor, master and Ph.D in chemistry, Elena Sánchez López shifted to a more biological research for her postdoc. All of her studies she did at the University of Alcala, in Spain. Way back in medieval times, this city was the place of birth of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the world famous…
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A philosophical mythbuster
Cognitive neuroscience gives us a glimpse into our brain activity; it allows us to learn more about ourselves. Or do brain scans actually not say very much about who we are? Philosopher Annemarie van Stee examines four myths about neuroscience and self-understanding.
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Arianna Pranger: ‘I pack as much creativity as possible into my teaching’
Arianna Pranger has lost her heart to teaching. A senior lecturer on the master’s programme in Pharmacy, she won the LUS Teaching Prize 2020. The programme trains students to be pharmacists.
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Leiden University launches Data Science research programme
Leiden University is investing 4 million euros in a new Data Science research programme. This is a joint initiative of all the faculties, headed by Dean Geert de Snoo at the Faculty of Science. The programme will focus on Leiden scientific data.
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Leiden Team Wins Second Place at the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court
Four master's students from Leiden University participated in this year’s edition of the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court, hosted by Antwerp University. Following the verbal rounds held between 21 and 22 March, the team went through to the finals, achieving second place overall.
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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 2021
The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christianity in Context.
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Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme
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Screening enormous databases to find a cure for cancer
Pharmaceutical research should make more use of data science, says Gerard van Westen, postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). ‘If we want to have better drugs, we should start with data.’
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MOOCs more than online education
Leiden University now offers almost 20 Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The enthusiasm displayed by participants makes it rewarding to develop and teach such courses, say MOOC lecturers Marlies Reinders and Edwin Bakker. But that is not all, ‘You bring together a global community.’
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Virologist Eric Snijder: ‘Vaccination will be going well in 2021’
The research group of Eric Snijder, Professor of Molecular Virology (LUMC), has been conducting research on coronaviruses for decades. Then in March this year their work accelerated at an unprecedented rate. The first new results are now available: insight into how the virus replicates.
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Research at the Faculty in 2018: a sneak preview
A new year that will bring all sorts of developments in the world of research. What are the new year’s resolutions in social sciences research at our faculty? What unites us, and what exciting developments do we anticipate?
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How Leiden's drug pioneers have switched to Covid research
From studying molecules in the blood of corona patients to developing a new concept for vaccines. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) has transformed many ongoing projects into Covid research projects. Hubertus Irth, scientific director of LACDR, talks about the role of his institute…
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Doctor of tropical medicine on Terschelling
Operating on tsunami victims, coordinating emergency aid during a civil war and the croaking of frogs in the surgery: Menno Swier worked as a doctor of tropical medicine in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. He is now a GP on Terschelling and here too there is never a dull moment.
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Big data cannot do without statistics
Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data hype, genome research and collaboration with other disciplines. ‘Statistics helps wherever data is not perfect.’
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands
Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and they were loving it. 'Yesterday evening we were completely covered in mud.'
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Interview Anneke Koning: PhD research on transnational sexual exploitation of children
Sexual exploitation of children abroad: the Dutch government calls on its citizens to not look away from 'suspicious situations’ while turning a blind eye to the root causes of the problem themselves. Koning, who recently obtained her PhD on transnational sexual exploitation of children from Leiden…
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Featured Review | A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics
Tom Long (2022). A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190926212, 240 pp. (hardback), £19.99.
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Theses Children's Rights online
Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights Outstanding Student Research Theses
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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Computerized Adaptive Testing in Dutch Mental Health Care
PhD defence
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International Women's Day workshop: Freedom and refugees
LeidenGlobal Workshop
- OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
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The neuroscience of the psychedelic experience
Lecture
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LIC Lecture: Structure-based development of immunoproteasome inhibitors
Lecture
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Bitter Sweet Symphony
PhD defence
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Ruthenium-peptide conjugates for targeted phototherapy
PhD defence
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Regulation of signal transduction pathways by hypoxia in breast cancer subtypes
PhD defence
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MCBIM Colloquium: Lightning Up Platinum Complexes for Tumor-Targeted Anticancer Therapy
Lecture
- Discover the stem cell world during Night of the Discoveries!
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Molecular precision Surgery: technical innovations and their relation to interactive perception
PhD defence
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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Access to justice & labour rights: innovative paths for conflict resolution
Lecture
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LIC Lecture + drinks
Lecture
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LUCIP Forum: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi, Fang Yizhi, and Heidegger’s Views of Life and Death
Lecture
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Bioengineering and Biophysics of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
PhD defence
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Migration and International Socialism: Transnational Socialism, Free Movement, and Migration in the early European Parliament
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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CPP Colloquium: "Property and Social Equality"
Lecture
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Statistical modelling of time-varying covariates for survival data
PhD defence
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Decoding the molecular makeup of the human ovary through single-cell transcriptomics
PhD defence
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Inhibitors and activity-based probes for retaining β-D-glucuronidases, heparanases and β-L-arabinofuranosidases
PhD defence
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Semisynthetic Glycopeptide Antibiotics
PhD defence
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Law, Gender, Race and Intersectionality
Conference Day
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Award ceremony Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award
Prijsuitreiking
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When Hospice Isn’t a ‘Choice’: Disregard, Care and End of Life on the American Periphery
Lecture
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Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar 2023
Conference, Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar
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Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information
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Theses
Below thesis archives will be moved shortly (work in progress) to the Leiden Repository. Once this is done, theses submitted by MI students (from 2008 onwards) can be accessed via the Repository and will be removed from this site.