593 search results for “museum collections and society” in the Staff website
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Wilco van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
dijkwvan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 0 6 43446432
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Ecologist Emilia Hannula receives Gold Medal in Teylers Museum
Soil ecologists Emilia Hannula (Leiden) and Elly Morriën (UvA) received the Golden Medal of Teylers Tweede Genootschap on 5 November. They received the prize for their submission to a competition on sustainable soil management.
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
w.a.wagemakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272505
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
m.s.berger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271684
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Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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Guus Heerma van VossFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.j.j.heerma@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
j.b.gewald@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273372
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Santy KouwagamFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.u.kouwagam@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nisida GjoksiFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
n.gjoksi@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Inge van der WeijdenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
i.c.m.van.der.weijden@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276073
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ScienceGuide: collective subscription ended
Education, Library, Research
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Leiden University transfers unique collection of historical objects over to Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Lenses from Christiaan Huygens’ telescope, instruments used to demonstrate Newton’s laws, and equipment that led to the discovery of superconductivity—around 3,000 scientific instruments from the Faculty of Science at Leiden University are now officially part of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave collection.…
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Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections
An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories…
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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Ludo WaltmanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
waltmanlr@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275806
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Sharon van GeldereFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
s.r.van.geldere@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 31 70 800 9548
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275635
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities
l.n.m.tissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…
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Do you know how quantum can change society? Most people don’t
Quantum technology, statistics and a survey with memes: definitely not your everyday research. Julia Cramer (Leiden Institute of Physics) and Sanne Willems (Institute of Psychology) investigate how people perceive quantum.
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Janine UbinkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.m.ubink@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277493
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The future of artificial intelligence
From self-driving cars to innovative drug development, artificial intelligence (AI) is going to fundamentally change our lives in a variety of ways.
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0715272033
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Lieske HuitsFaculty of Humanities
e.j.g.m.huits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272648
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Sandra van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
sdijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273913
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272027
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Model painting with diverse techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272985
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
k.fedorova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272952
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Anne-Laura van HarmelenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
a.van.harmelen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276186
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Rachel PlakFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
r.d.plak@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Femke Bakker
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
f.e.bakker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276188
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Christoph Niessen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
c.niessen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Franco DonatiFaculty of Science
f.donati@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274571
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Diederik MeijerFaculty of Archaeology
d.j.w.meijer@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272444
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A peek inside art objects: new algorithm makes CT scan more accessible
An X-ray scanner, some small metal balls, and a newly developed algorithm. That is all you need to make a 3D model that enables you to look inside art objects without dismantling them. Thanks to the research of Francien Bossema (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer…
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Afshin EllianFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.ellian@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277652
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
s.m.lauritano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276078
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
m.westera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277535
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‘Value to society has our full attention’
Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl can see dilemmas but above all opportunities in the search to increase the societal value of research in Leiden.
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Doing the City Pier City Run in The Hague? Collect your free Leiden University running shirt
Organisation, Social
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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How a Dutch man collecting 400,000 pieces of litter ended up on a scientific paper
Anti-litter activist Dirk Groot photographed, tagged, and collected more than 400,000 pieces of litter in the Netherlands. Now, he and his data are included in a study on urban litter by researchers from Leiden University and Andrea Ballatore from Birkbeck, University of London.
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Former scientific director physics remains active. ‘Through this role, I continue being part of the future.’
For many years, he was active in various management positions at the LION and even after his retirement he is still very involved. Professor Jan Aarts leads the Leiden hub of the Quantum Delta NL growth fund and is now temporarily responsible for national educational activities. In this way, he is helping…
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
On Thursday, May 16, Leiden University Libraries is organizing a workshop on early photography of the Middle East. In the workshop, curator Maartje van den Heuvel shows photos of three adventurous Dutch nineteenth-century travel and photography pioneers. They created beautiful photos and photo albums…
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Shelley van der Veek
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
sveek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273767
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'Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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Museum Meets University at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Arts and culture
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Why do birds flock? Shedding light on collective motions in heterogeneous populations
Leiden physicists Alexandre Morin and Samadarshi Maity study self-organisation and flocking phenomena. They shed light on flocking, which helps to understand how it is possible that birds in a flock don't collide. With plastic microbeads, they create an experimental setup and they developed a mathematical…
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Research Night: Re-wriggling the Museum
Arts and culture