1,915 search results for “data” in the Staff website
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‘Doing a PhD is never boring!’ How Guido Stam built a microscope that can measure bacteria without causing harm
A microscope with incredible sharpness that leaves samples unharmed – Guido Stam helped develop one. During his PhD research, he combined light and electrons to study biological samples. ‘We can now measure things that simply weren’t possible before.’
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‘Leiden could raise its profile as an AI expert’
‘In the field of AI, Leiden is still a relatively unseen university,’ says Thomas Dohmen. The brand-new Director AI Collaboration Center, would like to forge a Leiden AI collaboration network, with sustainable and impactful relationships between the university and civil society organisations. The question…
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ISGA researchers in international media
Terrorism, crisis, violence, intelligence, diplomacy, war and peace are topics that are broadly covered in ISGA's research activities. Regularly, ISGA researchers appear in international media to discuss their research expertise. This item offers an overview of non-Dutch and non-English articles and…
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New Year's Reception 2025: the power of diversity and collaboration
‘Let us not forget the power of genuine engagement,’ dean Sarah de Rijcke stressed at the New Year's Reception on 7 January 2025, which was also attended by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and addressed the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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Students win Speckmann Prize for LGBTQ+ healthcare research | Leiden University
Anthropology students investigate how care is perceived in LGBTQ+ communities in the Netherlands, winning the prestigious Speckmann Prize. Insights on safe spaces and community diversity.
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Opinion: AI is taking over our jobs – or is the reality more nuanced?
Following the news that TomTom is cutting 300 jobs due to the use of artificial intelligence (AI), FGGA researchers Friso Selten and Alex Ingrams responded with opinion pieces. They place the news in a broader context and call for a more nuanced debate on AI and job losses.
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For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system
International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, and the James Webb Space Telescope, they have observed the creation of the first…
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Thriving together: How Ghana’s forest communities and ecosystems stay resilient
At a time when the climate crisis demands global action, Leiden University College’s (LUC) research project REFloC (Resilient Ecosystems and Flourishing Communities) in Ghana is choosing a different path: listening closely.
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New PhD-training programme started at ISGA: ‘We want PhD-candidates to thrive’
Lydie Cabane and Seda Gürkan, respectively PhD-coordinator and Assistant Professor at ISGA, are starting a new programme to support and train ISGA PhD-candidates. They tell us more about the programme: ‘We aim to facilitate a successful completion of PhD trajectories.’
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Fear and silence at Lowlands: Festival visitors take part in Leiden research
Last week’s sunny Lowlands festival was not just an occasion for partying and dancing. Visitors were also given a glimpse – as test volunteers – into scientific research. How do you conduct research on fear and silent communication at a festival?
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4 KIEM grants for Humanities
Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.
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FGGA Academia in Motion get-together
Debate
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Functional MRI Analysis (Basics)
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Webinar Population Health Management
Study information
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webinar Population Health Management
Study information
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Connect & Open up: meet the Open Science Community Leiden
Network meeting
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A political attack on academic freedom in the US
Symposium
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Exploring Web Archives
Lecture
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Jade from the Other Mountain: Chinese Fan Fiction Based on English Source Texts
PhD defence
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Using cryo-EM methods to uncover structure and function of bacteriophages
PhD defence
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CANCELLED Tuesday Talks: Science Insights | 8 October 2024
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research
Lecture, CADS/CWTS DataCultures seminar
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Digital Archaeology Group Meeting
Lecture
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Withstanding the cold: energy feedback in simulations of galaxies that include a cold interstellar medium
PhD defence
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"The First Stars" & "Uncovering the oldest stars in the Milky Way"
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Statistical Learning and Prediction
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Webinar Population Health Management
Study information
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Efficient Deep Learning
Lecture
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CANCELLED: Digital Twin Engineering
Lecture
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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Course: Interactive Machine Learning
Course
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8-11 April - Career Days 2024
Course, Career Week
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Prompt Power: Using AI Tools for Political Science Research (Leiden session)
Lecture
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Symposium: Digitale Autonomie van de Nederlandse overheid
Symposium
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Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
Workshop Series
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Library Carpentry workshop
Workshop
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Library Carpentry workshop
Workshop
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OSCoffee: The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars
Lecture
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Prompt Power: Using AI Tools for Political Science Research (The Hague session)
Lecture
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FAIR implementation for Research Communities
Workshop
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LCN2 seminar February 2025
Lecture
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Leiden Research Support Network Conference 2025
Conference
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Panel discussion Bias in AI, algorithms, and the tech sector - Young Alumni Network
Alumni event
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Study evening: 'Intelligence-Led Policing: Strategies, Challenges, and the Future'
Lecture
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The dynamics of contact-induced change and language shift
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
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ISGA received highly positive external research evaluation
In November 2023, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) underwent its first full external research evaluation for the period from 2016 to 2021 with outstanding results. In its final assessment report, the independent external evaluation committee underlines that ‘the committee is impressed…