523 search results for “chemical industry” in the Staff website
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Rethinking Urban Renewal and Citizen Engagement: Insights from Turin
Maria Vasile's ethnographic fieldwork in Turin reveals that volunteering and citizen engagement may not empower residents or allow them to shape their cities. Her analysis of urban gardens, food markets, and food aid initiatives calls for a broader perspective on urban peripheral areas and a shift away…
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CML talents receive Stans Award 2024
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best student thesis, best PhD paper and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominated students and colleagues and this year’s jury Prof.dr.ing. Jan Willem Erisman and Prof.dr.ir Willie Peijnenburg made the final decision.
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the role of women in the past has been nearly invisible. Four archaeologists reflect on this inequality of focus, from hunter-gatherers in the palaeolithic to…
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Lessons to be learned from the corona crisis
Professor Bussemaker and Professor Koenders draw lessons from the handling of the current corona crisis. In a blended guest lecture with some 60 students in Wijnhaven and some 250 online participants, they entered into a discussion led by Willemijn Aerdts. The guest lecture took place on May 25.
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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Key for effective application of a new revolutionary cholesterol lowering drug resides in a 30 year old Leiden Patent
‘’ And then the world changed forever ,welcome to the future’’. These are the words that Kausik Ray (President of the European Atherosclerosis Society) spoke when the worldwide first dose of inclisiran, a novel SiRNA based cholesterol lowering agent, was administered at the Cardiology lipid clinic at…
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Maureen Rutten - van Mölken: 'Investeren in innovaties die de meeste gezondheidswinst opleveren'
Digitale medische technologie kan een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan betaalbare zorg en het oplossen van het tekort aan zorgpersoneel. Maar hoe weet je of een innovatie daadwerkelijk waarde toevoegt aan het zorgsysteem?
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University Council chair : ‘You have to be patient but you really can make a difference’
The university elections are approaching. Are you going to represent student and staff interests this coming year? University Council chair Pauline Vincenten gives a peek behind the scenes at student and staff participation at Leiden University. ‘I get so much energy from collaborating with the students…
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How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist?
We can accrue pensions, reinforce dykes and make our homes more sustainable. But how do we make our higher education fit for the future? And what skills should we be teaching our students now for jobs that don’t yet exist? Lecturers and educational developers looked to the future during the keynote…
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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture
Dutch greenhouse horticulture is a world leader when it comes to innovative capacity and sustainability, but ‘the challenges are great in terms of energy, water, environment and biodiversity,’ says Peter van Bodegom, coordinator of AgriFood at the Centre for Sustainability of the Leiden, Delft, Erasmus…
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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Experts on the war in Ukraine, two years later: ‘Europe learned a lot from the war, help each other and don’t give up’
The one-day symposium ‘War in Europe: the impact of Russian aggression in Ukraine two years on’ on 23 February 2024
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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Widening the horizons of outer space law
PhD defence
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The Great Rectification: A New Paradigm for China’s Online Platform Economy
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Surface Temperature and the Dynamics of H2 on Cu(111)
PhD defence
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Entangled Transformations: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Power Dynamics in Belarus
Lecture, Research seminar
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Quantum & Society Research Colloquium Series: 'Quantum for High-School Students and Teachers'
Lecture
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Leiden Translation Talk 24 May: Creativity in different translation modalities and its reception by readers
Lecture
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Software and System Security Fest
Course
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Explore! Career Opportunities Beyond Academia
Research, Communication
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EA & SSEA Night Talk 2 – Technology in East Asia from Manufacturing to Research & Development?
Lecture
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The Samarkand Cotton Mill that Very Nearly Was
Lecture
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Quantum Meets Leiden: IBM lecture & mini-symposium
Conference
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Dutch Network Science Society Symposium 2022
Conference
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The Future of faith and responsible technology & AI
Lecture
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To Counter or Not Counter Violent Extremism? That’s the Question
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Psychology Connected: Climate Change
Conference
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Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China
Debate, China Seminar
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Fast-Tracking Climate Resilience with AI: a Stakeholder Discussion
Panel discussion
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, Center of Computational Life Sciences
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'Hello World!' lecture, by Frans W. Saris
Lecture
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
PhD defence
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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Taking Up Space: Waste and Waste Labor in Developing South Korea
PhD defence
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Newsroom Dissonance: How new digital technologies are changing professional roles in contemporary newsrooms
PhD defence
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Using cryo-EM methods to uncover structure and function of bacteriophages
PhD defence
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Assessing global regionalized impacts of eutrophication on freshwater fish biodiversity
PhD defence
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Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Multivariate Time Series Prediction and Anomaly Detection
PhD defence
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CANCELLED: Digital Twin Engineering
Lecture
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Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists
Seminar
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Talk by Prof. Anne Allison (Duke University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the new Strategic Plan on the University’s 447th Dies Natalis. The new Strategic Plan therefore focuses on innovating and connecting, among disciplines and…
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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales
Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…