811 search results for “science molecular” in the Staff website
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What Darwin couldn’t see: Expedition to uncover invisible life in Galápagos
An international research team is to search for invisible life in the Galápagos Islands. The diversity of bacteria and other microscopic organisms may not be evident to the naked eye, but it is essential to nature. To the islands' giant daisies, for instance: unique endemic plants that are currently…
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The Pursuit of Competence: Why our students need more meaningful challenges, not less.
The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) is closely connected to the education of our biopharmaceutical students, providing both courses and immersive internship projects. Among these is the Bachelor Research Project (BOO), which offers many students their first real scientific experience…
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Education Festival presents the future of teaching
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on teaching at universities over the past two years. Through force of circumstances, lecturers have adapted much faster to a digital future. On 7 June Leiden Teachers Academy’s annual Education Festival (working language is English) will present insights on this ‘new n…
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'I always consider: What would have worked best for me?'
Starting with the ‘why’, putting herself in her students’ shoes and providing structure. These are three ways in which environmental scientist Ranran Wang tries to make her course as interesting and manageable as possible. With success: she has been nominated for Science Teacher of the Year 2022.
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Ann Brysbaerta.n.brysbaert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Exploring the Quantum Multiverse
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Looking Inside — 3D Imaging Reimagined
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Animation: Why Leiden is the birthplace of the Janssen vaccine
If you'll soon be getting a COVID-19 vaccine, you might just get the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) one. This vaccine was developed for the most part in Leiden – and this is no coincidence. Watch the animation below about the development of one of the vaccines in the fight against COVID-19.
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Teaching Machines to Learn
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Can patterns save ecosystems from collapse?
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Multifunctional Polypept(o)ide Miktoarm Star Polymers for Advanced Drug Delivery
PhD defence
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Leiden Declaration: AI is challenging the core values of mathematics
In the ‘Leiden Declaration’, an international group of researchers warns that AI is putting fundamental values of the discipline under threat. The rise of AI is forcing mathematics to rethink what makes their field reliable and valuable. This is their proposed way forward.
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Cancelled: Breaking the Cycle of Heart Attacks
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Miniaturizing mechanical metamaterials: towards material-based microrobotics
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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From lone genius to cocreator: how AI is changing the role of composers
Who is the real creator when a musician uses AI? This was the burning question for Adam Lukawski, himself a composer. During a fascinating premiere at Amare, The Hague’s cultural hub, he demonstrated what cocreation sounds like.
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Can games unlock the quantum future?
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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The Telescopes and Instruments of Tomorrow
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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The Biological Roots of Musicality
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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OSCoffee: Rethinking Publishing: Alternative Outputs and Platforms
Lecture
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
c.l.williams@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276903
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OSCoffee: The publish-review-curate model for scientific publishing
Lecture
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OSCoffee: LEIbits - Communicate your research with Nanopublications!
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Peer Review - In Search for Improvement
Lecture
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Next-generation publishing: the publish-review-curate model
Seminar
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OSCoffee: Do we need some kind of national observatory for consultation projects?
Lecture
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Breaking the Cycle of Heart Attacks
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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BAMBOO Night - All Things Sustainability
Lecture, Pint of Science
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Acquired resistance in pancreatic cancer: characterization and exploration of actionable targets of a multifactorial disease
PhD defence
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Survival of the Littlest: Improving Preterm Outcomes through Metabolomics and Microsampling
PhD defence
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Transformation and sublimation of interstellar ices: insights from laboratory experiments and astronomical observations
PhD defence
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Remember or Die: action of thermomemory when proteostasis meets phase separation
PhD defence
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From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters
Lecture
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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens
With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock, and our thoughts are with his wife and children, other family, and friends. Harold was at the heart of our institute, as a researcher, as a supervisor,…
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Thirteen NWO Open Competition XS grants for Leiden researchers
From medicines from snake venom to supercrops and the origin of words. Thirteen researchers from Leiden University will receive Open Competition XS grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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From Liquid Helium to Quantum Materials: Physics in Leiden, Then and Now
To mark Leiden University’s 450th anniversary, this exhibition pairs historic photographs with contemporary research. Seven ‘Then & Now’ diptychs show how the Institute of Physics blends a rich past with cutting‑edge science.
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Astrochemistry
Lecture
- Netherlands Reproducibility Network Annual Symposium 2026: Culture Shift - Embedding Reproducibility
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Finding Baby Black Holes with the James Webb Space Telescope
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Kunnen wiskundige patronen ecosystemen redden?
Lecture, Natuurwetenschappelijk Gezelschap Leiden
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
Lecture
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: How photonics and sub-wavelength optics are shaping next-generation telescopes
Lecture
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: De geologie van het zonnestelsel: de prachtige planetaire paralellen van tastbare gesteenten en inspirerende landschappen
Lecture
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"The First Stars" & "Uncovering the oldest stars in the Milky Way"
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Measuring the edge of Infinity
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Ready for Quantum?! (in Dutch)
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Certainty in uncertain times
Lecture, MI 70 years
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Stellar drama: Relationships between planets and stars
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap