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248 search results for “life pollution” in the Student website

• How light and noise pollution disrupt aquatic life News - 16 October 2023

  Fish populations in lakes and rivers have declined in recent decades. This is probably due to light and noise pollution. The Horizon Europe grant enables ecologist Hans Slabbekoorn to investigate this and improve the situation for migrating fish. In order to do so, a seven-metre-long swimming tunnel…

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  Christina Galafton PhD candidate / self funded

  c.galafton@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jatmiko Wahyudi PhD candidate / contract

  j.w.wahyudi@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Paul Vriend Self funded PhD Candidate / Guest

  p.vriend@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anagnostis Theodoropoulos PhD candidate

  a.theodoropoulos@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274882

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• How polluting are the clothes in your closet? News - 5 September 2023

  Cotton is the most widely used natural fibre for clothes. But how polluting are our jeans and shirts actually? Environmental scientist Laura Scherer coordinated an international research project on the impacts of cotton. ‘The purchases of consumers in Europe can contribute to water scarcity in China…

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  Helias Udo de Haes Professor emeritus

  udodehaes@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Berent Baris PhD candidate

  b.t.baris@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer News - 6 June 2023

  Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countries. This was shown by long-term economic and environmental data. 'The gap between poor and rich countries is widening.' Scientists from the Leiden Institute…

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  Dani Crowley PhD candidate

  d.crowley@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274759

• journalist to ecologist: PhD candidate researching light and noise pollution News - 14 October 2024

  Ecologist Sebastiaan Grosscurt became a successful wildlife journalist after graduating. But he decided to focus on science instead. He started his PhD research this year on the cumulative effect of light and noise pollution on animal behaviour.

• Sustainability Challenge: students trace plastic pellet pollution in the Port of Rotterdam News - 8 September 2025

  In the Port of Rotterdam, tiny industrial pellets leak into the environment, causing a form of pollution that’s hard to trace but highly persistent. Three students of the LDE Sustainability Honours Programme took on the challenge to identify sources of this pollution.

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  Filipa Ferreira Student assistant

  f.v.ferreira@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nina van Dulmen PhD candidate

  n.van.dulmen@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mingming Hu Associate professor

  hu@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271497

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  Bernhard Steubing Associate professor

  b.r.p.steubing@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sander van Nielen Postdoc

  s.s.van.nielen@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lavinia Reitz PhD Candidate - External affiliation

  l.reitz@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alice Mondello Postdoc

  a.mondello@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Ecology PhD student wins Dutch award for investigative journalism News - 24 May 2024

  PhD student and research journalist Sebastiaan Grosscurt won a Tegel in May. In the data category, Grosscurt and his colleagues won the prestigious Dutch journalism award. 'For me, ecological research and journalism are two ways of achieving the same thing.'

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  Jeroen Guinee Professor

  guinee@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277432

• New technology could make hard-to-recycle plastics recyclable News - 18 February 2025

  Cookware handles, electrical plugs, brake pads. Unlike other plastics, these ‘thermosets’ cannot simply be melted down and reshaped, making them difficult to recycle. Chemist Roxanne Kieltyka and her team are now exploring a way to make these materials recyclable, potentially transforming the way we…

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  Lieke Wirken Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.wirken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273711

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  Emilio Solis Sanchez PhD candidate

  e.solis.sanchez@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jessica Kiefte-de Jong Professor

  j.c.kiefte@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Heidi Rooijakkers Career advisor / Coach

  Administration and Central Services

  h.j.m.rooijakkers@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 000 0000000

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  Aymara Wagner PhD candidate

  a.wagner@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mike Slootweg Guest researcher

  h.j.slootweg@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nils Pauliks PhD candidate

  n.pauliks@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nethmi Sewwandi Kankanamge Dona PhD candidate

  n.s.kankanamge.dona@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Stewart McDowall PhD candidate

  s.c.mcdowall@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xinpeng Jin PhD candidate / contract

  x.jin@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ana Cristina Arcos Marin PhD candidate

  a.c.arcos.marin@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Droovi De Zilva PhD candidate

  d.b.k.de.zilva@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sebastiaan Deetman Assistant Professor

  deetman@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275616

• 'One in five bacteria we tested were capable of breaking down plastic' News - 27 June 2024

  Leiden PhD candidate Jo-Anne Verschoor discovered that nearly twenty percent of the bacterial strains she studied could degrade plastic, though they needed some encouragement to do so. ‘Bacteria are just like people,’ says Verschoor. Her research was published in the journal Communications Biology,…

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  Mona Delval PhD candidate

  m.h.delval@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• The lifecycle of a cigarette filter News - 1 June 2022

  The university is launching a campaign to focus extra attention on our smoke-free university locations. The University is using aptly named cigarette barrels to try to show clearly just how many cigarette filters are being saved from the environment. How harmful are these cigarette filters to the e…

• From Steno to Snickers: the Anthropocene through the eyes of a coot News - 8 May 2025

  What looked like an ordinary coot’s nest turned out to be a five-star location with a remarkable backstory. Beneath a jetty on the Rokin in Amsterdam, biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra discovered a true time capsule — complete with face masks from the COVID era and a Mars wrapper dating back to the 1994…

• Plastic in cigarette filters: why smoking is bad for the environment too News - 30 May 2022

  We all know smoking is bad for our health. But we might not have known that the cigarette filters that litter our streets also impact the environment. Esther Kentin is a lecturer at Leiden Law School. She is raising awareness of the University’s cigarette butt problem.

• Working together on the plastic problem: how to keep citizens engaged? News - 6 June 2024

  What motivates citizens to participate in a citizen science project on plastic pollution? And does that motivation change over time? Liselotte Rambonnet tried to answer these and other questions with her research on the Clean Rivers (‘Schone Rivieren’) project. Rambonnet is a PhD student at the Institute…

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  Justin Lian Guest postdoc

  z.lian@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Kilotonnes of 'recycled' Dutch plastic waste end up in the sea News - 13 July 2022

  On paper it is recycled, but in reality enormous quantities of plastic waste from the Netherlands end up in Asian seas. Researchers from the Leiden Institute of Environmental Sciences charted the fate of plastic food packaging waste from the Netherlands. They published their results on July 8 in the…

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  Aaron Paris PhD candidate

  a.paris@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jana Enking PhD candidate / Guest

  j.e.enking@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hazem Eltohamy PhD candidate

  h.eltohamy@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bartolomeus Häussling Löwgren PhD candidate

  b.j.p.m.haussling.lowgren@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maarten Koese PhD candidate

  j.m.koese@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jonas Klimt PhD candidate

  j.b.j.klimt@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727