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‘I work with go-getters who know what needs to be done’
Her office is a bit tucked away in a corner of the building, but her department is always buzzing with activity. Since May 2024, Renate Rijbroek has been our new Head of Facility Management. There was no slow start: ‘We are working hard towards the official opening in September.’
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to an AI model (and rightly so)
Not experiments and lab coats, but computers and artificial intelligence: this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the groundbreaking AI model, AlphaFold. This programme accurately predicts protein structures based on their genetic code—a crucial step in understanding biological…
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Circularity not yet a priority in energy transition and construction
Are we on the right track towards a circular economy in 2050, with fully renewable energy technology and circular construction? The CML of Leiden University, together with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), TNO, Utrecht University and RIVM, is investigating what is needed to achieve…
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Alumnus Charlotte Poot developed a hospital app for children
Charlotte Poot (31) is co-founder and chair of Hospital Hero, an app that prepares children for a hospital visit. She studied and obtained her PhD at the LUMC.
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Executive Board column: From the outside looking in (and vice versa)
We know more together than alone. To increase our university’s impact on the region, we have to be open to the world outside. This is how we strengthen our ties and create new opportunities for teaching and research.
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Call for Papers: 'Matrilineal Kerala: Investigations across Borders'
In collaboration with: Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, the Netherlands & Mar Chrysostom Chair, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Podcast De Verbranders critical of European border and asylum procedures
The Dutch asylum application centre in Ter Apel is overburdened, an issue that is currently a prominent feature in the Dutch media. In podcast De Verbranders, PhD students Neske Baerwaldt and Wiebe Ruijtenberg engage in dialogue, and use different angles to examine themes related to migration, borders…
- Green Morning
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The PolSci Bookshelf: books released in 2023
The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…
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Causal Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities
Lecture
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Healthy Society Event
Conference, Launch Healthy Society Center
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Liveable Planet congres: Lokaal beleid voor een leefbare planeet
Conference
- Roundtable: The making of disability / the making of migration
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with David Schoch
Lecture
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Film Screening: Crip Camp
Arts and culture, Conference | D&I Symposium
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Comeniusfestival 2022
Festival
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Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
Conference
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Celebration 50 years of the University Council
Conference
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Food for Thought: Health and Wellbeing in a Healthy Society - Youth
Lecture, Food for Thought
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EPP meta-measure and rethinking machine learning benchmarks: A recipe for meta-learning success?
Lecture
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IBL Spotlight - Bioactive Molecules
Lecture
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IBL Spotlight - Development and Disease
Lecture
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IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
Lecture
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Hardware-Software Co-Design towards Efficient Neuromorphic Computing
Lecture
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From data to discoveries: machine learning and optimization in space
Lecture
- IBL Spotlight - Development & Disease
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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Our government should be more resilient
A fragmented political landscape, permanent pressure from current affairs and an increasingly political civil service: our government faces many challenges. This makes it all the more difficult to make important decisions about pensions or the climate. Research and good education can help meet the challenges…
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The Gaia telescope: mapping 1 billion stars with 1 billion pixels
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
- Leiden City World Walks
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CANCELLED: LCN2 Seminar: Algorithms for Network Visualization and beyond
Lecture
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Anyone can fall victim to cybercrime
Criminology students Simone Kruijt and Noor Hekker conducted research into cybercrime in Leiden and presented their findings to the regional police and an enthusiastic Mayor Lenferink. The conclusions call for a new approach, said Lenferink.
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid
Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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'Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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Supermassive Black Holes and Where to Find Them
Lecture, Oort lecture
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The Assemblage of Social Death: Digital Vigilantism and Cancel Culture in China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Lunch lecture: ‘Geo’-Politics and Animist Social Contracts in the New Himalayas
Lecture
- The Psychic Life of the Welfare State
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Optoplasmonic Detection of Single Particles and Molecules in Motion
PhD defence
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Queer and Trans migrations: Dynamics of illegalization, detention and deportation
Lecture, Lunch lecture by Prof. Eithne Luibhéid
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Second meeting Cultures of Victimology
Conference
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Public Lecture on Palliative Care
Lecture
- Feestelijke opening Gorlaeus Gebouw
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AI in Chemistry: minisymposium
Conference