Alumni Newsletter June 2026
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June 2026

Physics alumni with a dream

Building a high-quality MRI scanner at the lowest possible cost. That was the challenge Thomas O’Reilly and Karina Soemarwoto set themselves. This year, they are selling their self-built MRI scanner. In doing so, they hope to make a difference for thousands of doctors and patients who currently have no access to MRI imaging.

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Empower Sudanese students through knowledge exchange

Buy your ticket for the Quantum Rave 1.0, a unique music and dance event. In the spirit of Prof. Marten Durieux, you can help students in Sudan become stronger by building bridges between students in Leiden and Sudan via an online platform. 

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More news

► King brings Japanese Emperor to Leiden University

► Queen Máxima visits KITLV: from climate change to colonial collections

► Life after a stem cell transplant: research on recovery and support

► European ban on cigarette filters more promising than national measure

► Top 10 per cent of consumers cause trillions in environmental damage

► Grant awarded for research into prehistoric settlement in the Province of Zeeland

► Students bring turbulent past of Valkenburg airfield to life

► Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman back in The Hague: ‘Good policy is not always good politics’

► Alumnus Willem van der Muur: ‘I wanted to work somewhere I could make an impact’

► The ocean is changing faster than the rules that govern it

► Restoring the reputation of the Javanese tradition of the Uttarakāṇḍa


Events

► The origins of the Anatolian hieroglyphs from a historical, philological and linguistic

     perspective

     6 July | Lecture | Leiden & online

► The spread of Sino-Tibetan languages, agriculture and weaving in East Asia

     7 July | Lecture | Leiden & online

► History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change

     10 July | Leiden | Symposium

► 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics

     24-26 August | Conference

► Day of Languages and Cultures

     26 September | Festival | Leiden

► Open Day Faculty of Science

     4 July | Festival | Leiden

► CINETS 2026: Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift

     5-7 July | Conference | Leiden

► Leiden Revisited 2026

     4 September | Alumni | Leiden

► Leiden Gezond Festival - 27 June

► Walk-in concert University organ

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