Congratulations to Yamila Miguel! She received the Teacher of the Year 2023 award for her course Exoplanets A. The Faculty of Science of Leiden University awarded Yamila at the Faculty’s New Year reception. More you find here.
The ‘landelijk network vrouwelijke hoogleraren (LNVH)- the Dutch network for women professors has over 1400 members. LNVH just published their monitor of 2023 with the following conclusions: Lowest growth rate of women professors in the past 8 years Modest increase…
Joke Bouwstra (LACDR) will receive this year’s van Zwanenberg Ereprijs. She did fundamental research on the skin and the transport of drugs through the skin. This is the first time the prize will go to a woman after 59 years.…
On the 15th of November, women work for free on the European average! The reason for this is the gender pay gap which causes women to work roughly 1.5 months more to earn the same money as men in comparable…
Leiden University has started an initiative to supply period products in the SchoolSupply vending machines. In case one needs a sanitary pad or tampon, they can be bought for 50 cents at 12 different facilities. The initiator, E. Picavet aims…
From 1 October. Verberne has been appointed professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) where she worked as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group since 2017. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the field of…
Although inequalities still exist, the EU has made significant progress in gender equality over the last decades. This is the result of Encouraging trends are the higher number of women in the labour market and their progress in securing better…