Democracy is under pressure all over the world. With the #DemocracyinAction project, university lecturers Sara Brandellero and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues want to investigate how grassroots art projects manage to keep democracy alive.

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Lecture, Book presentation

Inaugural lecture

Lecture, Book presentation

Inaugural lecture

Ákos Kovács Bacterial adaptation to a fungus Bacterial-fungal interactions influence microbial community performance of most ecosystems and elicit specific microbial behaviors, including stimulation of specialized metabolite production. In my talk, I will explain a co-culture experimental evolution…

The ISSC is planning to configure and maintain a safe platform for using Large Language Models at Leiden University, both locally run and through Microsoft Azure. The platform could significantly speed up the adoption of AI-based tools in education, research and operations. This talk will explore how…

Inaugural lecture

Electrocatalysis is a promising approach to address various environmental and energy challenges including greenhouse gas mitigation, renewable fuel generation, and electrifying hard-to-abate chemical sectors. Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), for instance, could contribute to lowering…

Hydrogen interacting with surfaces has attracted much attention, because of its relevance to many chemical processes. Therefore, understanding of their interactions is of great interest not only from a fundamental point of view but also in industrial applications. In my presentation, hydrogen in molecular…

Leiden Law School has a strong tradition of research in the field of fact-finding and evidence in criminal cases.

Symposium

Assistant professor and dual PhD candidate, Pieter Slaman writes in Binnenlands Bestuur about the fact that the German occupier lengthened the period of mandatory education in The Netherlands.

The prosecution of violent fathers is regularly abandoned, supposedly ‘in the best interests of the child’. Assistant professor Mojan Samadi responds in an interview with RTL and Investico: ‘It’s problematic if you accept this argument as a matter of course.’

eLaw – Leiden University's Center for Law and Digital Technologies – will host a major Conference in Leiden (The Netherlands) on 20 and 21 June 2024 about

Lecture

Lecture

Lecture

Lecture

This lecture focuses on advanced methods in polymer chemistry, particularly integrating Cu-mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) with Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) to achieve large-scale, oxygen-tolerant polymer synthesis. ATRP is a key technique for advanced polymer synthesis. Integrating…

Lecture

Lecture

Programme Director: Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology (Leiden University), Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub Speakers Professor Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Professor of Law, Radboud University Anna Buchta, European Data Protection Supervisor Anne-Jel…

Electrochemical interfaces between polymer electrolytes and metal electrodes are the central to many key electrochemical devices in the global sustainable energy transition, however, much of the electrochemical insights were gained at the liquid/solid electrochemical interfaces. In this talk, we analyze…

The study of electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) and other C1 products provides efficient ways to control the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) and to further develop the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks. Molecular catalysts made of earth-abundant metals…

Hydrogen is a ubiquitous component of our environment, of most interfaces, and of many catalytic processes. A hydrogen atom is a proton and an electron, so the thermochemistry of H transfer and coupled 1H+/1e– transfer (PCET) are the same (± a constant). The electrochemical potential of the Volmer reaction…

Lecture

In this talk, I will introduce the development of qPlus-based scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), which allows to identify the positions of proton and the OH directionality in water in real space [1,2]. Then I will showcase the applications of H-sensitive STM/AFM in…

Our digital infrastructure brings new opportunities, but it also makes us vulnerable. The answer does not lie in technology alone. But how do we help organisations get to grips with the complex theme of digital security? Welcome to the world of cybersecurity governance, the world of Bibi van den Ber…

On 20 September 2024, Leiden University colleagues Associate Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri (Main Applicant), Assistant Professor Michael Klos (Co-Applicant), Professor Simone van der Hof (Co-Applicant), Constanta Rosca, Maria-Lucia Rebrean and Maëlle Picout gladly welcomed RESOCIAL’s consortium members…

‘It's right and proper that we have policies to prevent terrorism,' says Francesco Ragazzi, university lecturer in International Relations at Leiden's Institute of Political Science. 'But the way the policies are designed and implemented can have unintended consequences. For example, when teachers are…

Bringing young, enthusiastic and driven academics from different disciplines together, that’s the goal of the Young Academy Leiden (YAL). As a new member, Assistant professor Jan van Rijn is excited to look at AI from different perspective. ‘I want to bring my expertise together with different point…

If you buy something online, the webshop can adjust the price based on your data. Kimia Heidary investigated the phenomenon of online price discrimination. ‘It’s not necessarily unfair. Different prices for different people has been around for years.’

From closed government systems in the Middle East to an exceptionally open Dutch government. Public administration lecturer Alex Ingrams is an expert on transparency: ‘Why are some countries secretive? And what role does technology play?’

Collaboration is worthwhile. A joint LUMC and Leiden Law School project has received €142,500 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will advance research into the law and ethics of regenerative medicine.

Early diagnosis, new treatments, and personalised care: all of these are possible if we can better unlock the wealth of information hidden in health data. Unfortunately, this data is often poorly organised, difficult to access, and not interoperable. The new international Leiden Institute for FAIR and…

In november 2023 is Anne Fleur van Veenstra, wetenschappelijk directeur van TNO Vector, benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar ‘Governance van data en algoritmen voor stedelijk beleid’.

Willemijn de Best’s career path led her to the media sector. Besides the more obvious legal professions, a degree in law actually offers many other possibilities: film and television production with celebrities as clients, for example.

A new health programme will reward patients with - or at risk of developing - cardio-vascular diseases for keeping to a healthy lifestyle. A research group including psychologist Andrea Evers has been awarded 2.5 million euros by the Dutch Heart Foundation and the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare…

Sander Kok (35) was a hit as a model for Armani and he is now making a name for himself as a writer. His philosophically tinted first novel 'Smeltende vrouw' was acclaimed as a literary sensation. How do Literature Studies and Art History benefit him today?

During the Bachelor Honours Class ‘The world is quantum’, students from various disciplines learned about the rules of nature on the smallest scale: quantum mechanics. What opportunities and dangers do they see for their field of study?

Riese presented on 3 December 2018 the reason of state as the preservation of the state through exceptional measures.

Thinking up solutions for global issues such as environmental pollution and poverty. This is what young people from all over the world will be doing at the One Young World summit from 17 to 20 October in The Hague. Follow Leiden students Jennifer Pfister and Thomas Gevers who will be reporting on their…

Following the retirement of Roswitha Manning, a vacancy arose at Faculty of Archaeology for the role of Research Policy Advisor. We found one in the person of Jimmy Mans, a well known face for longer-serving Faculty staff. In this interview we reconnect with Jimmy, who calls himself ‘a homegrown Leiden…

The University of Oslo and Leiden University have joined forces to organise a Tutorial on Robots and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Technical Perspectives on Integrating Robots in the Home and Healthcare Systems and Services at the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communica…