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The oligarchy in China: a case study of China’s electricity industry, 1978-2013
On Friday 15 November 2024 Chunli Song successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Jade from the other mountain: Chinese fan fiction based on English source texts
On Friday 22 November 2024 Ye Jiang successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The Radical Party and the Making of Kemalism (1901-1939)
On Wednesday 14 May 2025 Remzi Çakırlar successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Trust is good, control is better: technopolitical visions and realities in China's social credit system
On Friday 7 March 2025 Adam Knight successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Cisca HoogendijkFaculty of Humanities
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Start of construction of camera for European giant telescope
Leiden scientists will be working on the development of a camera for the European Extremely Large Telescope that is currently under construction. On 28 September the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy signed an agreement with the European Southern Observatory.
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Ewine van Dishoeck in Board of Trustees Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed astronomer and chemist Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck to its Board of Trustees, effective 5 May, 2018.
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Huib van Langevelde new director Event Horizon Telescope
The Leiden astronomer Huib van Langevelde) has been selected as the new director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT is a collaboration involving about 350 scientists from 18 countries. It combines the ALMA array in Chile with sub-millimeter telescopes around the world and published the first…
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Marijke KlokkeFaculty of Humanities
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Hong Kong's Place in South East Asia
On Thursday 7 November 2024 Vaudine England successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Poetry and power: the appreciation of the verse in Seljuq and Ilkhanid chronicles : the case of Rāḥat al-Ṣudūr and Jāmiʿ al-Tavārīkh
On Wednesday 20 November 2024 Sara Mirahmadi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The unseen saints of Islam: Sufi ritual and religious worldmaking in Java
On Thursday 10 April 2025 Wahyu Widodo successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Educated Muslim women in a non-Muslim world: navigating identities in Sendai, Japan
On Wednesday 3 September 2025 Yu Ai successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Young suns and infant planets: Probing the origins of solar systems
Even though more than 4000 extra-solar planets are known today, only a small fraction of these has been captured in an image. To better understand the planet formation mechanisms in solar-like environments we started the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES).
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The alignment of galaxies across all scales
Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.
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SuperCode
SuperCode: Sustainability PER AI-driven CO-DEsign
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The road to drain or gain: Dutch private investment and economic development in late colonial and early independent Indonesia
On 20 September 2023 Mark van de Water successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Framing the Conquest: Bactrian local rulers and Arab muslim domination of Bactria (31-128 AH/651-746 CE)
On Thursday 28 March 2024 Said Reza Huseini successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
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Marriage traditions and the stem family in ancient Egypt: a study of marriage contracts, social structure and family life
On Wednesday 11 June 2025 Steffie van Gompel successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Student perspective on the local area
It is multi-media month for master’s students in Journalism and New Media. This means they are on the streets, armed with pen and paper or tablet, smart phone and camera. In the ‘Leiden Neighbourhoods’ project, master’s students are giving their perspective on local area news for the Leidsch Dagblad,…
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Cosmic particle acceleration by shocks and turbulence in merging galaxy clusters
In this thesis, I study the formation of large-scale structure and the physics of particle acceleration at large scales (~Mpc).
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Ewine van Dishoeck shows us new worlds in Dies lecture
Her specialist field is molecular astrophysics, and she is the most quoted scholar in her field. In this, the year of astronomy, she is the ideal person to give the Dies lecture at the university with the world's oldest astronomy institute; it goes without saying that the lecture will be on the newest…
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Across world orders: information, trust, control, and those in-between in the Qing-Tibetan relationship (1636-1727)
On Friday 16 May Juul Eijk successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Only the dead can tell us: on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
On Wednesday 3 July 2024 Renata Schiavo successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Spectroscopy of two-field inflation
This thesis is about cosmological inflation and its relation to observations.
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Ewine van Dishoeck appointed Academy Professor
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) has awarded an Academy Professorship to Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden University.
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Masterclass ‘Access to Justice in Indonesian frontier area’
On 6 September 2018 Jacqueline Vel of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society organised a master class on ‘Access to Justice’ at the invitation of the Wira Wacana Christian University in Waingapu, Sumba, Indonesia.
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Metabolomics Facility Leiden Featured in NWO Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure website
The metabolomics facility is proud to be featured on the NWO website which reflects the landscape analysis of large-scale research infrastructure in the Netherlands implemented by the Permanent Committee for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure.
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Digits & Deviations of Dynamical Systems
Dynamical systems describe the evolution of objects in a space over time and may be used to model physical phenomena. Due to this, much research is dedicated to understanding the mathematics of dynamical systems.
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‘Human trafficking is a huge grey area’
Human trafficking is much more than kidnapping and selling people. Those who commit labour exploitation can, for example, also be sentenced for human trafficking. Criminologist Masja van Meeteren hopes to simplify the complexity of the phenomenon by charting the different forms of labour exploitati…
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Giant planet at large distance from sun-like star puzzles astronomers
A team of astronomers led by Dutch scientists have directly imaged a giant planet orbiting at a large distance around a sun-like star. Why this planet is so massive, and how it got to be there, is still a mystery. The researchers will publish their findings in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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The Teaching of Khety and Its Use as an Educational Tool in Ancient Egypt
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 Judith Jurjens successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Silver of the possessed: jewellery in the Egyptian zār
On Thursday 27 June 2024 Sigrid van Roode successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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A Special Territory: Visions of Hong Kong and its People
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 Milan Ismangil successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Apocalypse, empire, and universal mission at the end of antiquity: world religions at the crossroads
On Tuesday 10 September 2024 May Shaddel Basir successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Indonesian modern art historiography: national and transnational perspectives
On Wednesday 5 February 2025 Milan Ismangil successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Leiden biology appreciated with large NWO grants
A Vici grant and a Science-GROOT: scientists from the Institute of Biology Leiden have been awarded prestigious grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). From investigating bacteria without cell walls to harnessing plants with the help of microorganisms.
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Galaxy alignments from multiple angles
Galaxies form and live inside dark matter haloes. As a consequence, they are exposed to the tidal fields generated by the surrounding matter distribution: this imprints a preferential direction to the galaxy shapes, which leads to a coherent alignment on physically close galaxies, called intrinsic a…
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Rizal ShidiqFaculty of Humanities
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Big simulations for big problems
In this thesis we investigate cosmology and the large scale structure of the Universe using cosmological simulations.
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Final presentations Area Study Sustainability: Wheels of Metals
Friday 30 January 2015 were the final presentations of the last course of the Minor Sustainable Development.
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Rethinking digital nationalism in China: state propaganda and public discourse during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
On Wednesday 25 June 2025 Dechun Zhang successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The Muslim Woman Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Islamic Tradition and Global Modernity
On Wednesday 24 September 2025 Marija Šerić successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Simona Demkova on the transnational challenges of EU large-scale databases
On 23-24 October, 2023, Simona Demkova spoke at the meeting of Transnational Administrative Law Network on the transnational challenges of the EU large-scale informational cooperation, based on her recently published book, 'Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies'. The theme of this TALN meeting…
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Jorrit RijpmaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Smarter edits: Post-editing translations with LLM suggestions
Can smart suggestions help translators work better with machine translation? As machine translation becomes the norm, professional translators are asked to correct its output; a process called post-editing. But how can we make this easier and more effective?