Leading scientists in the field of the ethics and philosophy of technology are currently revising time-honoured key philosophical concepts such as autonomy, justice and responsibility, as these concepts are being challenged as a result of new technological developments. They receive 17.9 million euros…

The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…

Two of our colleagues received a royal decoration. Professor Jo Hermans became “Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau”, and Professor Jan Schmidt became “Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau”. They receive the decoration as an acknowledgement for their extraordinary and selfless contribution to others…

PhD defence

Prof.dr.mr. Y.E. Schuurmans Prof.dr.mr. J.E.M. Polak Summary See Dutch page.

Whenever you have learned something from data, you have implicitly also compressed the data. In this talk we explore how we can turn this observation around and use compression to learn explainable models from data. To this end we look at how we can model and quantify information in data in an interpretable…

Deep learning has dramatically improved the state-of-the-art in object detection, speech recognition, anomaly detection, natural language processing, and many other domains. However, model sizes keep increasing quickly, and we need more and more memory and computing resources to train our models. In…

The quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare are being threatened by personnel shortages, high administrative burden, and an ever-increasing demand for healthcare services. The recent introduction of large language models (LLMs) has led to enormous excitement within the healthcare community…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) are enabling applications in nearly all industrial sectors and are of huge societal importance. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become the computing platform of choice for AI and HPC in the past decade, but GPU software is unlikely…

Valedictory lecture

Valedictory lecture

The BLRN members have published extensively in recent years. In addition to the BLRN book series, dissertations of BLRN members published in the E.M. Meijers Institute Series, you will find below a selection of our publications. For a more complete overview of publications of each BLRN member, please…

Alumni event, Lezing

Only the fittest cyclists stand a chance of taking yellow in the brutal Tour de France. Team Jumbo-Visma is working with data scientists from Leiden. They have analysed the stages and performance of Jumbo-Visma’s riders in previous Grand Tours. And they are researching how to determine the fitness level…

The nominees for the IRO Thesis Prize 2024 and the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2024. Who authored the best thesis in Leiden University’s bachelor’s programme in Political Science?

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Security researcher Max van der Horst will come to Leiden Law School to give a session on Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure as part of the series for the 2023-2024 class of the Adv. LLM on Law and Digital Technologies. The session is entitled “Ethical Vulnerability Mass-Exploitation 101:…

dr. M.J A. de Dood Prof.dr.ir. S.J. van der Molen

This page contains all relevant information for lecturers teaching in the Astronomy bachelor's and/or master's curriculum at Leiden University.

From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.

The annual Van de Waal Lecture takes place on 12 September, to mark the opening of the academic year of the department of Art History. The lecture will take place in the Lipsius Building, room 0.19 and will also be available via livestream on this page. Registration is not necessary, everybody's…

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Over the last 20 years, groups have shown that chemical reactions proceed differently in confined volumes compared to bulk, continuous phases. This talk will detail our group's efforts in developing new electrochemical measurement tools to study chemistry in tiny volumes. Using stochastic electrochemistry,…

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Inspired by nature, solar fuel production by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is a promising strategy to store solar energy into chemical bonds. An in-depth understanding of the water oxidation mechanism and the structure-function relationship of the catalyst is indispensable for developing…

In this session, Loran and Lisa will share their expertise on and experience in conducting a scoping review, which is a method to conduct systematic literature review that allows you to identify gaps in research and gain insight into the literature of your interest. Scoping reviews can be used to conduct…

In my presentation, I will challenge the view that the diolate is the only electroactive species of aldehyde oxidation and I will show that also diol and non-hydrated aldehyde are electroactive. Hence, very alkaline reaction conditions can be avoided. I will discuss how this insight allows us to develop…

In almost all device applications, the performance is dominated by defect, surface, and interface effects, and often a combination of all three depending on the application of interest. In this talk, I will present the state-of-the-art modelling approaches in each case and their inherent limitations.…

A carbon neutral and circular economy will rely on utilization of waste materials and biomass as feedstock for the production of new materials. Its energy input must be of zero carbon footprint, which implies intermittent electricity. Some of the challenges encountered in the transition towards such…

A Dutch-language video shows children their new life during the corona crisis and gives them some guidelines to help them feel less worried. The short animated video was made by two German researchers with whom child psychologists Anke Klein and Annelieke Hagen are working. ‘With our translation, this…

The AI research in the area of peace, justice and security at each of the three universities in Zuid-Holland complements the AI research being performed by the other two. Three researchers explain. Part one in a series of five about themes that the three universities’ AI research covers.

A lot has changed for students during the corona crisis: no physical education, exams behind the computer, and lecturers who accidentally mute themselves during an online lecture. How do students experience online education? ‘During one of the lectures in Teams, someone kept on kicking people out of…

After a weapon has been fired, a cloud of particles is released together with the bullet. These particles are collectively referred to as gunshot residues (GSR). They deposit on the shooter as well as any objects or people in the vicinity. The collection and analysis of these GSR particles forms the…

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Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy has become a routine technique to study many systems such as energy storage systems, corrosion...[1] However, despite its simplicity of implementation, the analysis of the results often remains very superficial.[2] Our group has been working a lot in the last few…

Since the energy demand is increasing in modern electric life, the CO2 emission decrease comes to the critical point between science and application, as well as de-coupling fossil fuel usage. The green energy project is one of our objectives for studying the chemical reaction of advanced materials;…

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Traditional chemical industry processes often rely on fossil fuels, which inevitably emit substantial quantities of CO2. Turning CO2 into valuable chemicals is a potential approach for sustainable chemical production. In this presentation, we will showcase our work on developing a two-step tandem CO2…

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Electrocatalysis plays a major role in energy conversion technologies such as electrolyzers and fuel cells. Small nanoparticles, typically less than 10 nm in size, provide a high surface-to-bulk-atom ratio which is crucial for efficient utilization of the catalyst material, often based on scarce precious…

The kinetics of elementary thermal reactions is fundamental to our understanding of heterogeneous catalysis; however, experimental methods for accurately deriving thermal rate constants are unreliable and theoretical methods for predicting rates remain un-validated. Velocity Resolved Kinetics (VRK)…

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Arts and culture, Pianoconcert

This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), to Leiden. She is the third Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University…