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1,035 search results for “discovery of the year” in the Staff website

• Ancient magnetic fields: What do they tell us about the early years of the universe? News - 3 February 2025

  Are magnetic fields older than the first light? And how did they influence the development of our universe right after the Big Bang? Cosmologists from Leiden, Groningen, and Utrecht are now collaborating to investigate this.

• Leiden Science kicks off the new year News - 11 January 2023

  Beautiful prizes, special speeches, and a reception with live music. The well-attended Leiden Science New Year's reception was a delightful way to start the year 2023. Dean Jasper Knoester opened the event after which it was announced who were chosen teacher and bachelor student of the year.

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  Roberto Arciero PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  r.arciero@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nancy Kula Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.c.kula@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272242

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  Carmen van den Bergh University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.van.den.bergh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272067

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  Joanne Stolk University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.v.stolk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272906

• 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.

• Leiden University to continue membership of The Conversation News - 9 December 2024

  Looking to share your academic results or insights with a global audience? Leiden University is a ‘contributing member’ of the international journalism platform The Conversation. In 2024, this resulted in 51 articles, which together were read by more than 667,000 people.

• Planet found too big for its parent star News - 1 December 2023

  The discovery of a planet far too large for its sun defies models about the formation of solar systems and planets. In a paper in Science, researchers, including Yamila Miguel of Leiden Observatory, report the discovery of a planet more than 13 times heavier than Earth orbiting the ultracool dwarf star…

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  Marc Boef PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  m.a.boef@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nada Badr PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Science

  n.badr@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rosan Kuin Guest

  Faculty of Science

  r.c.m.kuin@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Martin Sicho Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  m.sicho@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274206

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  Daan Jiskoot PhD candidate / external

  Faculty of Science

  d.a.jiskoot@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mark Fonteyne PhD candidate / external

  Faculty of Science

  m.fonteyne@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Chiel Jespers PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Science

  m.jespers@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bola Khalil External PhD Candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Science

  b.a.a.khalil@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Brandon Bongers Guest Scientist

  Faculty of Science

  b.j.bongers@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Willem Jespers Guest Scientist

  Faculty of Science

  w.jespers@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Linde Schoenmaker PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  l.schoenmaker@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274607

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  Bleda Düring Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276449

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  Victor Klinkenberg Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.v.klinkenberg.3@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Olaf Kaper Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.e.kaper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272041

• Royal honour for emeritus professor Ad IJzerman News - 26 April 2022

  Ad IJzerman, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacochemistry, was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 26 April. He was presented with the royal honour by Mayor Elbert Roest in the town hall in Bloemendaal.

• Starting the new year together: these are the winners of faculty awards News - 10 January 2024

  A beautiful speech by vice-dean Bart de Smit, a mini-lecture on exoplanets and the presentation of three faculty awards. That's how we started the new year at the faculty. Together with colleagues and students, we raised our glasses to a new year full of great collaborations, science and education.

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  Brian McGarry Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.k.mcgarry@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jonathan Ouellet Education Officer

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.m.ouellet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jennifer Swerida Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.l.swerida@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276048

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  Keiko Yoshioka Lecturer and Head of the Japanese language programme.

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.yoshioka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272553

• Education funding, grants and prizes

  There are different education funding, grants and prizes available for teaching staff at the faculty, university, national and international level. These allow you to innovate your education and do research.

• Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found News - 7 October 2024

  Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe was only 700 million years old. This is surprising since, according to our current understanding of…

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  Lucina-May Nollen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  l.nollen@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Elsa Neubert Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  e.neubert@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Andraniek Evadgian PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Cristina Serra I Melendez Analyst

  Faculty of Science

  c.serra.i.melendez@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anke Haarmann Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.haarmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Daisy Batenburg PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  d.batenburg@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Remco van den Broek PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  r.l.van.den.broek@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Serena Viti Professor

  Faculty of Science

  viti@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275803

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  David Figueiredo Vidal Guest

  Faculty of Science

  d.figueiredo.vidal@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kim Elbertse PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  k.elbertse@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Joseph Callingham Guest lecturer / senior researcher

  Faculty of Science

  callingham@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275737

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  Teun van Gelder Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  t.van_gelder1@lumc.nl | 071 5262790

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  Roelof van der Kleij Ict developer

  Faculty of Science

  r.g.van.der.kleij@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277075

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  Pim Arntzen Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  j.w.arntzen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Leiden researchers discover oxygen in the most distant known galaxy News - 20 March 2025

  Two teams of astronomers, including one from Leiden University, have discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This groundbreaking discovery shows that galaxies could form much faster in the early universe than was previously thought.

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  Peter Bisschop Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272980

• Last starlight for space telescope Gaia News - 17 January 2025

  ESA’s space telescope Gaia, which maps the Milky Way, completes its active phase of scanning the sky on 15 January. Over the past decade, Gaia has made more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other cosmic objects. ‘Gaia is already the discovery machine of the decade,’ Leiden…

• Now available: Open Science: A Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers News - 9 June 2023

  This practical guide is aimed at PhD candidates, Research Master Students, and early-career researchers from all academic disciplines. The instructions in the guide intend to inspire young researchers and to help them practice Open Science, by sharing all aspects of research as open possible.

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  Peter Akkermans Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Archaeology

  p.m.m.g.akkermans@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727