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352 search results for “physics violence” in the Staff website

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  Richard Wagner PhD candidate

  wagner@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276465

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  Maarten Elion PhD candidate

  elion@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kyrylo Bondarenko Postdoc

  bondarenko@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Resi Aarts PhD candidate

  raarts@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275926

• Examining DNA molecules one by one: how combining techniques can help us understand diseases such as dementia News - 30 January 2026

  ‘By cleverly combining new techniques for analysing DNA at the level of individual molecules, we can achieve real breakthroughs in research into conditions such as dementia,’ predicts Professor John van Noort. Together with four leading biophysics research groups, he has written a review article in…

• A quirky block of rubber as a calculator News - 30 May 2023

  PhD candidate Jiangnan Ding explores how you can design a thick slab of rubber in a way that it might act as a mechanical computer bit. This so-called mechanical metamaterial is pushed in a specific way to change its shape. ‘With a very simple material, we might be able to do simple calculations in…

• Corrugated plastic unveils a new design principle for programmable materials News - 20 September 2023

  Martin van Hecke en Anne Meeussen publiceren in het tijdschrift Nature over mechanische metamaterialen. Ze hebben een nieuwe klasse multistabiele materialen ontdekt. Dit is gebaseerd op ribbeltjes plastic.

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  Alireza Mashaghi Tabari Associate professor

  a.mashaghi.tabari@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274425

• Computing with rubber News - 22 May 2024

  Without electronics carrying out computational tasks our daily lives would look very different. Devices such as elevators, vending machines, turnstiles, washing machines and even traffic lights use a simple form of electronic computing to switch from state to state. But, what if power supply is not…

• Rubicon grant for Leiden physicist: why do leaves of a tree always grow in the same shape? News - 13 April 2023

  PhD candidate Ludwig Hoffmann will spend two years at Harvard University in the US thanks to a Rubicon grant he won on April 11. Using theoretical models he studies biological tissues, for example during morphogenesis. This is the process that causes tissue or organisms to develop their shape. ‘This…

• Pianist Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin unites science and music in concert News - 1 October 2025

  On December 10, Kazakh pianist and composer Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin will perform at the Stadsgehoorzaal in Leiden. A remarkable event where music and modern physics come together.

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  Kaveh Lahabi Assistant professor

  lahabi@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275603

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  Donny de Bruin Researcher

  bruin@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275920

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  Tuo Maidina Technician O&O

  tohti@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275973

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  Silvana Caipa Cure PhD candidate

  caipa@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278403

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  Yvonne Kerkhof Management/office-assistent

  kerkhof@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275475

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  Sourav Roy Postdoc

  roy@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Simona Borrelli Postdoc

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  Jacopo Piantanida Chiesa PhD candidate

  piantanida@physics.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Tycho Blom Phd candidate

  blom@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275476

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  Colin Meulblok PhD candidate

  meulblok@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275465

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  Edgar Groenen Professor emeritus

  groenen@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nynke Penninga Study Advisor QIST

  penninga@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan Aarts Professor Emeritus

  aarts@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275478

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  Parisa Omidvar PhD contract AMOLF

  omidvar@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Paul Baconnier Postdoc AMOLF

  baconnier@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275465

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  Emanuel Fortes Teixeira Postdoc

  teixeira@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275932

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  Wolfgang Löffler Associate professor / director of educations

  loeffler@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275931

• Chasing gravitational waves: damping vibrations in underground Einstein Telescope News - 4 September 2024

  Leiden scientists and companies receive 1.37 million euros to develop technology for the Einstein Telescope. This underground telescope will measure gravitational waves and must therefore be extremely sensitive. To that end, the consortium conducts research on the damping of vibrations at temperatures…

• Rubicon grant for Remko Fermin: superconducting diodes for energy-efficient data centres News - 10 August 2023

  Physicist Remko Fermin from Leiden University was awarded a Rubicon grant from NWO. He will use it to study superconducting diodes that could contribute to reducing the CO2 emission of data centres.

• Uzbek mathematician refines world-famous theory: ‘So many things are connected’ News - 10 September 2025

  Predicting the collective behaviour of systems, like a large group of people electing one of the parties, is no easy task. But there’s a theory that scientists have been using for decades to do just that: the theory of Gibbs measures. Last week, mathematician Mirmukhsin Makhmudov earned his PhD for…

• Physicists from Leiden help create world’s smallest Rembrandt News - 5 July 2022

  Museum De Lakenhal is displaying the smallest work of art in the world: a 3D-printed statue of Rembrandt van Rijn, made by sculptor Jeroen Spijker and researchers from Leiden University.

• Moji Aghajani: "Make your course multidimensional"

• Studying ferritin: ‘we hope this will eventually give more insight into Alzheimer's’ News - 10 October 2023

  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.

• A first in the lab: a tiny network that is both strong and flexible News - 15 February 2024

  Daniela Kraft's group has succeeded in creating a network of microparticles that is both strong and completely flexible. This may sound simple, yet they are the first in the world to succeed in doing so. A real breakthrough in soft matter physics.

• Next quantum computer comes to the Netherlands News - 22 October 2024

  Europe's latest quantum computer is set to arrive in the Netherlands. The Dutch IT cooperative, SURF, which supports education and research institutions, has secured funding from the European EuroHPC programme to make this possible. Researchers from Leiden University will play a key role in the project,…

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  Folkert Nobels Guest PhD candidate

  nobels@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Liru Feng PhD candidate

  feng@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275932

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  Mio Poortvliet PhD candidate

  poortvliet@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274380

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  Joshua Saldi PhD candidate

  saldi@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275932

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  Bernat Durà Faulí PhD candidate AMOLF

  fauli@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275465

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  Yingjian Liu PhD candidate

  yingjian@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  José Dupont PhD candidate

  dupont@physics.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276464

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  Nikyta Shchutskyi PhD candidate / PhD fellow

  shchutskyi@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275515

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  Jan Li PhD candidate

  janli@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marien Raat PhD candidate

  raat@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jeger Broxterman PhD candidate

  broxterman@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275529

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  Orestis Karapiperis PhD candidate / Guest

  karapiperis@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275529

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  Hertz Wang PhD candidate / self funded

  h.wang.26@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275919

• Can humans observe a single particle of light? (And what does that say about our brain?) News - 11 July 2024

  Hoping to learn something about the human brain, Leiden researchers are creating a setup to shoot single photons, particles of light, into someone’s eye. ‘The eye is a passageway to the brain.’