506 search results for “studies general” in the Staff website
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Major study offers practical guidance on antibiotic dosing in patients with obesity
Leiden researcher Anne-Grete Märtson brought together a large number of studies to better understand antibiotic dosing in patients with obesity. The publication in a renowned medical journal has already garnered much positive reactions, Märtson says. ‘It’s high time researchers started sharing more…
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Executive Board visits African Studies Centre: ‘We work from African perspectives’
From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during a recent visit by the Executive Board, staff from the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Library presented their research, teaching and acquisition…
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Studying ferritin: ‘we hope this will eventually give more insight into Alzheimer's’
Martina Huber, Jacqueline Labra Munoz research Alzheimer's disease. They study ferritine, iron storage in the brain. An inbalance of iron could play a role in this form of dementia.
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Train or plane? Study reveals rail travel preferences among Leiden University academics
Would you be more likely to take the train for your next work trip, instead of flying, if you automatically got a first-class ticket? For many Leiden University academics, the answer is yes – according to research looking at what motivates academic staff to choose trains over planes.
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Lucien van BeekFaculty of Humanities
l.van.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272224
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Rene KleijnFaculty of Science
kleijn@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271498
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Supermassive black holes: how do you study something that is invisible?
How are supermassive black holes born? That is the question astronomer Elena Maria Rossi is trying to answer. But how do you investigate something you cannot see?
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What we are doing to ensure our students and staff can work and study safely
In the last few days, reports have appeared in the media about security in our buildings. These have raised questions and caused concern. This is to inform you as best we can about the security of our students, staff and visitors, in response to this media coverage. We fully understand there is a need…
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New study helps policymakers combat global warming with negative-emissions technology
Cutting down global emissions of greenhouse gases to combat global warming won’t do the trick alone: we also need negative-emissions technology that can capture carbon dioxide directly out of the air. In the prestigious journal Global Environmental Change, PhD candidate Oscar Rueda and colleagues shed…
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Gaming your way through a PhD: 'Studying games is not just cool, it's important'
Giulio Barbero and Matthias Müller-Brockhausen did their PhD research at the Leiden University Game Research Lab.
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A mathematical three-step rocket helps biologists study tumour blood vessels
Koen Keijzer combined three mathematical models into one unified system capable of making meaningful predictions about how cells form blood vessels. This helps biologists studying the chaotic, leaky blood vessels found in and around tumours.
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Supervison of students
Lecturers and/or members of a research group at our faculty, may be asked to supervise BSc or MSc students during their studies and research projects.
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Lights off, sound on: Leiden University opens artificial river to study fish migration
On 16 June, Leiden University opens the MIGRADROME: a unique, seven-metre-long artificial river. Researchers will use it to study how light and sound affect migratory fish. ‘We’re recreating a real river, but under fully controlled conditions.’
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University working hard to create a safer work and study environment
Since the demonstration over a year ago on the Wijnhaven campus, Leiden University has developed plans and initiatives to create the safest possible work and study environment for our university community. The Executive Board would like to explain what has happened since and what else we can expect…
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‘Nearly every research study has a governance dimension, but academics know very little about it’
The annual conference of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) interdisciplinary research programme will take place in The Hague on 7-9 June. As a researcher at Leiden University, why should you be there? ‘Nearly every research study has a governance dimension, but academics often…
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assumption-free statistics offer a better choice for many research studies
PhD candidate Daniël Gomon has developed statistical methods that could significantly improve research in fields like medicine and demography. ‘Mathematicians don’t like unrealistic assumptions,’ he says. Gomon will defend his PhD thesis on 19 June.
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Over a million euros for two studies on solutions to antimicrobial resistance
Two consortia led by Leiden researchers have been awarded over one million euros by the Dutch Research Council and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to find solutions to antimicrobial resistance.
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Lorentz Lecture - Why study islands?
Lecture
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What will it be like to study in 2075? Uni-visionaries help shape the university’s future
LEGO creations, a clothesline of visions and a journey into the past and the future: just some of the highlights of Uni-vision day, where creatives developed their vision of the future of study.
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PhD’s & postdocs: study sustainability and earn credits with this free, virtual exchange
Education, Research
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New professor of Theoretical Physics: ‘The problems I study can come from anywhere in society’
The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.
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Keuzegids: six top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University
Leiden University has six top bachelor's programmes according to Keuzigids universiteiten 2025, a consumer guide to university programmes. This puts Leiden in fourth place of the broad-based universities.
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PhD training Case Study and Comparative Methods
Research
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Experience -Based Learning: Studying with personal experience
Study support
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A call with Annie de Jong about the National Student Survey
It’s time once again to take the National Student Survey (NSE), the annual student satisfaction survey for all students at research universities and universities of applied sciences. Annie de Jong is a Policy Officer for Quality Assurance at Strategy and Academic Affairs and the central contact person…
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Kabinetsvoorstel voor lager bindend studieadvies: geen goed plan
De Universiteit Leiden vindt de aanpassing van het bindend studieadvies geen verstandig plan.
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Michiel WestenbergFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
westenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Biophysical studies of intracellular and cellular motility
PhD defence
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Tailoring support for refugee students: ‘They are amazed at the number of options’
Many people have fled to the Netherlands since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, including students. But even before this war, students with refugee backgrounds were eager to study at Leiden University. How does the University help young people from various backgrounds find their way around the Dutch…
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‘Global challenges call for international knowledge exchange’
A delegation from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, is on a two-day visit to Leiden University. The aim is to explore opportunities for further collaboration and to exchange knowledge with this leading Chinese university.
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CellEKT: a chemical proteomics platform to study the kinome
PhD defence
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Exploring the materials and heritage involved in the Belt and Road Initiative
Dr Maikel Kuijpers, a staff member at the Faculty of Archaeology and a guest researcher at the Centre for Environmental Sciences (CML), is participating in an exploratory interdisciplinary study on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Made possible by a Seed Fund of the Leiden University Global…
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Studies into electrochemical hydrogenation reactions using molecular catalysts
PhD defence
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Metabolomics study of blood vessels on-chip model
PhD defence
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State-resolved studies of CO2 gas-surface reactions
PhD defence
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Bioorthogonal tools to study fatty acid uptake in immune cells
PhD defence
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers
Five lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award. With the grants they can carry out an innovation project.
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Tools for real-time study of bioorthogonal conversions in the living system
PhD defence
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Quality of master’s programmes assessed in new guide
The Air and Space Law (Advanced LL.M.) master’s programme at Leiden University is among ten ‘excellent master’s programmes’ at Dutch universities. This is according to ‘Keuzegids masters 2024’, a guide to master’s programmes in the Netherlands.
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Towards responsible and resilient mineral supply chains, with case studies on cobalt, antimony, and zinc
PhD defence
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Synthetic Affinity-Based Probes for ADP-Ribose Interactome Studies
PhD defence
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Evolvability and epistasis studied through the lens of an antibiotic resistance enzyme
PhD defence
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Substrates and inhibitors to study and modulate ER-I α-glucosidase activity
PhD defence
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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Approaches to Study Biologically Relevant Reactions: Examples from Amyloid Aggregation to Enzymes
PhD defence
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Miniaturized metabolomics methods for enabling the study of biomass- restricted samples
PhD defence
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Design and Synthesis of Click Lipids as Tools to Study Immune Cell Metabolism
PhD defence
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Destroy, Create, Transform and Sublimate. Laboratory Dissociation Studies on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Analogues
PhD defence
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Au(111) Electrode Surface in Different Electrolytes and Conditions Studied with a Home-made EC-STM
PhD defence
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…