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The quest for the magic angle
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science still can't explain how something so magical can happen, but physicists use special equipment to reveal what is taking place under the surface.
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Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’
Raymond Corbey holds a chair in both Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at the Faculty of Archaeology, to which he has been attached since 1993. The faculty’s 'embedded philosopher', as Dean Kolen likes to call him, is hard to pin down in terms of the usual specialties at the faculty because of…
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
A team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, but were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards – perhaps from another galaxy.
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Pressure cooker for education
How do you offer proper education in times of corona? Annebeth Simonsz (Educational Advice and Quality Assurance) and Anna Benjamins (ECOLe) work closely together to support lecturers in hybrid and online education. They are happy to share with the faculty, lecturers’ creative solutions for the new…
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Social Science Matters: scientist about voting behaviour
How do people vote? How rational are voting choices? How much do external factor weigh in? In this article social scientis provide some background.
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Liever een verre vreemde dan een valse buur
Mensen werken niet alleen liever samen met leden van hun eigen ingroup, ze concurreren er ook liever mee, lieten Leidse onderzoekers in een sociaalpsychologische studie in 51 landen zien. Dit ‘nasty neighbor’- effect was een grote verrassing voor de onderzoekers, totdat ze in studies over dieren doken.…
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Graduation MIRD Class of 2022: Students in the spotlight
On Monday, 4 July 2022, the graduation of the two-year Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) programme was commemorated in the iconic Academy Building in Leiden. Students and guests were welcomed by the Program Director, Professor Madeleine Hosli.
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Aspasia grant for promising researchers in psychology
Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Stefanie Meeuwis, and Eliška Procházková have all been awarded a share of the Aspasia diversity grant obtained by Mariska Kret. These three promising young psychologists will each receive 10,000 euros as a stepping stone towards a career in science. This gives them three months…
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ILS conference on the European Union as a Global Actor in Maritime Security
On Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October 2018, the Europa Institute organized a conference within the framework of ‘Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS): Policing the High Seas’ and in cooperation with four Interest Groups of the European Society of International Law. The event brought together representatives…
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Why biology students and teachers value the E-learning skills platform
Students of the Biology minor course Molecular Design have successfully boosted their skills in collaboration, research and writing with the recently developed E-learning Skills Platform. The biology students and their teachers greatly value the initiative. ‘Sometimes I couldn’t believe what progress…
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Four questions about the new track in Crisis and Security Management
Intelligence and National Security is the new specialisation in MSc Crisis and Security Management (CSM). It will start next September 2021. Do you want to know more about this track?
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2019 awarded to electrochemist Thom Hersbach
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2019 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) will be awarded to Thom Hersbach. In his thesis, Hersbach presents a thorough analysis of cathodic corrosion. His comprehensive research, on which he graduated with the distinction cum…
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Interview: Physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as KNAW President
On May 28th, Leiden physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has been vice-president since 2016. ‘The base of our universities is eroding.’
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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Van Marum Mini Symposium
Lecture
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On the source of polarity (in)sensitivity in the domain of degree modifiers
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Van Marum Colloquium: Ticking the CO2 clock with molecular control. From fuels to complex molecules
Lecture
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Why does water have a blue colour? Modification of Nouns and the Possession of Properties
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Van Marum Colloquium: Molecular Synthesis Enabled by Surfaces
Lecture
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Motherhood and Unfreedom in the Islamicate World
Conference, workshop
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European strategy and the quest for resilience in global supply chains of semiconductors
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Voltage-Driven Water-Dissociation Catalysis: Fundamentals to Applications Advanced Bipolar Membrane Technology
Lecture
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Hypothetical comparison clauses in Dutch dialects
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2025
Conference
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Navigating Married Life in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Applied African Linguistics
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Orientational Order and Confinement in Biological Tissues
PhD defence
- Kaiser Lente Lezingen: Launching into the night — a brief history of space exploration
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Syntactic effects of negation — A’-interactions and more
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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LCN2 seminar January 2026
Lecture
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CANCELLED Bolivia: reflexions on its Bicentennial of independence, decolonization and the challenges of Plurinational State/ Bolivia: Reflexiones
Lecture
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LUCIP Workshop: "(re)reading and (re)writing Buddhist genders"
Debate
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Marco Visser
Lecture
- SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: A few simple rules for prediction
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Doctoral Performance Demonstration Laila Neuman
PhD defence, Performance
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Open-world Continual Learning via Knowledge Transfer
PhD defence
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Van Marum Colloquium: New frontiers in modeling nanoporous materials and their applications at the crossroads of quantum mechanics, statistical
Lecture
- Spring School Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Landscape History and Ecology
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CWTS Scientometrics Summer School (CS3)
Research
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CPP Colloquium "What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism"
Lecture
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Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ)
CERQ is a questionnaire measuring cognitive coping strategies developed by Dr. Nadia Garnefski and Dr. Vivian Kraaij.
- Program
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Strategic research into and development of best practice for, predictive modelling on behalf of Dutch Cultural Resource Management
Are predictive archaeological maps a reliable tool to play an important role in the spatial planning? One of the goals of this project was to develop best practices for the production and application of the models.
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