182 search results for “solar system” in the Staff website
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What tiny isotopes reveal about planets outside our solar system
Planets existing in other solar systems contain invaluable information about the origin of planets and life. PhD candidate Yapeng Zhang has studied their atmospheres by looking at their smallest parts: isotopes. With her research she hopes to discover what makes our own solar system unique.
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Astronomers find missing link for origin of water in solar systems
An international team of astronomers, including astronomers from Leiden University, has found the missing link in the path taken by water through star-forming clouds and young stars to comets and planets. They did so with the help of the ALMA observatory in Chile. The researchers published their findings…
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Anthony Brown
Science
brown@strw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5884
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Leiden Study System
Leiden University has a high rate of student success. The Leiden Study System was developed to help students study faster and more effectively. They receive the optimum support while choosing which programme to study and during their studies themselves.
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Scheduled maintenance educational systems
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The new leave system explained
Since 1 January 2020 - with the transition to the Dutch Civil Code - the system of writing off leave has changed. When you take leave, the system automatically writes off the hours that fall due first.
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Solar panels and sedum on the roof of Snellius: A first for Leiden University
One of the largest roofs at Leiden University, that of the Snellius building, has recently been equipped with 590 solar panels and 57,000 sedum plants, making it the largest combined roof in the Benelux. The roof was officially opened on Monday 10 October by Annetje Ottow and Martijn Ridderbos, President…
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Dennis Hetterscheid
Science
d.g.h.hetterscheid@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4545
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From solar panels to tables made from old jackets: University opens its doors on Heritage Open Days
The theme of the Heritage Open Days Leiden on 10 and 11 September is sustainability. At four University locations guides will talk about the history of the buildings and how they have been renovated. And there is a first: tours in sign language.
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Embedded System Software Engineer (Research and Education support) (0.8-1.0fte)
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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What's inside a giant planet? Yamila Miguel will find out with an ERC Consolidator Grant
Discovering what is inside giant planets and their atmosphere, that is one of the goals of astronomer Yamila Miguel. With an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 million euro, she will study giant planets both inside and outside our solar system. ‘We want to know more about how planetary systems are born, how…
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Piet Hein van der Graaf
Science
p.vandergraaf@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Scheduled Maintenance Educational Systems
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Scheduled maintenance educational systems
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Gaia data maps globular cluster, gravitational lensing and asteroids with great precision
The European Space Agency (ESA) has published an interim data release from Gaia, the space telescope mapping out the Milky Way in 3D. The first scientific papers published today reveal half a million stars in the Omega Centauri globular cluster, nearly 400 candidate gravitational lensers and the positions…
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Onno van Gaans
Science
vangaans@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7122
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Marcel de Jeu
Science
mdejeu@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7118
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Arjen Doelman
Science
doelman@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7123
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Marc Spijker
Science
spijker@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hermen Jan Hupkes
Science
hhupkes@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5587
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Nicolas Navarre
Science
n.h.navarre@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Martina Chirilus-Bruckner
Science
m.chirilus-bruckner@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4837
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9 September: maintenance educational systems
Education, ICT
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Together towards a Circular System: Leiden contributes to Growing with Green Steel
A complete transformation of the steel cycle in the Netherlands with the ultimate goal of a CO2 neutral steel sector by 2050. For this purpose, the Growing with Green Steel program receives €100 million from the National Growth Fund. From Leiden, Professor of Industrial Ecology René Kleijn is involv…
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‘Securing systems is something you do together’
Leiden University wants to increase the security of its systems. That is why since 1 May the ‘sneakers team’ has been making many miles through our buildings. This team with various specialists will map all measuring and research systems. Today Roland van Dam introduces himself, he is the project manager…
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Scheduled Maintenace Educational Systems on October 21st
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Scheduled maintenance educational systems (March 24)
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How to make AI systems learn better
Artificial intelligence systems are smart. They can recognize patterns better than humans, for example. Yet humans are still very much needed. How can you better steer those AI systems? LIACS lecturer Jan van Rijn wrote a book about this together with a number of colleagues. We asked him a few quest…
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Martin Moerings
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
l.m.moerings@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Wenyu Wan
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
w.wan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Planet found too big for its parent star
The discovery of a planet far too large for its sun defies models about the formation of solar systems and planets. In a paper in Science, researchers, including Yamila Miguel of Leiden Observatory, report the discovery of a planet more than 13 times heavier than Earth orbiting the ultracool dwarf star…
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Saturday 21 January: Scheduled maintenance educational systems
ICT
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Friday 8 September: Scheduled maintenance educational systems
Education, ICT
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Saturday 21 October: Scheduled maintenance educational systems
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Targeting the immune system to inhibit atherosclerosis
A new treatment for atherosclerosis showed promising results in isolated cells but proved to be less effective in initial animal tests. Bachelor student Biopharmaceutical Sciences Willemijn van der Heijden aimed to understand why. She investigated whether the formation of a protein layer around the…
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Suiting Ding
Science
s.t.ding@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5615
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Kristian Rietveld
Science
k.f.d.rietveld@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7038
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Oliver Taherzadeh
Science
o.a.taherzadeh@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Bartolomeus Häussling Löwgren
Science
b.j.p.m.haussling.lowgren@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hai Lin
Science
h.x.lin@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7460
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Md Faysal Tareq
Science
m.f.tareq@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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SAP systems unavailable on Monday and Tuesday evening
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SAP systems unavailable on Saturday morning, Monday and Tuesday evening
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Infrastructure maintenance: SAP systems unavailable on Saturday morning, 2 April
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scientist addresses UN: 'People should not work for the economic system, the economic system should work for the people'
Environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 April. And that’s quite a big thing to do. How do you get there as a scientist? And, more importantly, what was his message? In eight questions, Rutger explains what he does and why.
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Research: Points system makes neighbourhoods nicer to live in
A lot of municipalities work with a points system to encourage construction projects to take biodiversity and creating green areas into account. But this way of working also benefits local neighbourhoods and residents, master's student Marije Sesink discovered. She based her study on The Hague.
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Scheduled Maintenace Educational Systems on Friday, December 15th
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