Prizes, grants, subsidies and honours of all kinds for Leiden University. A selection of the prizewinners from 2012 gives an impression of the impact of Leiden University.

Isabelle van de Calseyde

Leiden Student Council (LSr) Prize for Isabelle van de Calseyde
Isabelle van de Calseyde, lecturer in Economic and Legal French, received the Leiden Student Council (LSr) teaching prize at the Dies celebration. According to the students: 'She involves all her students in her lectures, gives them the opportunity to work independently and encourages and inspires them. She employs diverse teaching methods, including excursions to France, to see that her students are well prepared for the practical world in which they will find themselves once they have graduated.' 

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• Chin-hui Lin receives Faculty of Humanities Teaching Prize

• David Heyne, Casimir Teaching Prize Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Master's student Júlia Tóth-Czifra wins Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize 2012
Master's student Júlia Tóth-Czifra (Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest) has been awarded the prestigious Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize for Erasmus Students 2012. She carried out a significant part of her first-year master's programme at Leiden University.
Master's student Júlia Tóth-Czifra wins Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize 2012

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• MA thesis Floris Keehnen awarded with the Volkskrant thesis prize  

• Master’s student wins 40.000 euro with mobile Malaria test

• IBL- student Annebelle Kok won the 2012-LISF award

• Kiss Me or Punch Me? Anousch Khorikian wins Herman Servotte prize 2012  

• Innovation Prize from the Leiden Entrepreneur Fund for Asiye Gedik and Nejla Bekdur

• New talent in town: 40 LExS scholarships awarded

• Hendrik Casimir prize for Jelmer Wagenaar

Prof. Corinne Hofman

EUR 15 million for excellent archaeological research into the colonisation of the Americas
Corinne Hofman (Professor in Caribbean Archaeology) has been awarded 15 million euro by the EU for her archaeological research on the colonisation of the Americas. She will lead the ‘NEXUS 1492’ project together with colleagues Davies (VU), Brandes (Konstanz) and Willems (Leiden).
EUR 15 million for excellent archaeological research into the colonisation of the Americas

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• ERC Advanced Grant for astronomer Huub Röttgering
• Synergy funding for Delft-Leiden quantum computer workshop
• Analysing Roman cities with an ERC Advanced Grant
• Prof. Willem Willems awarded the European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2012

Xander Tielens

Spinoza prize for Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens
Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens has been awarded a Spinoza prize, the highest scientific prize in the Netherlands. Tielens is Professor in the Physics and Chemistry of Interstellar Space. He studies large and complex, often organic, molecules found in interstellar space. The Spinoza prize carries a cash award of 2.5 million euro.

• Spinoza prize for Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens

• Xander Tielens receives Spinoza prize

Mosaic subsidy for PhD research
Leiden PhD candidates Arlinda Rrustemi and Shardul Paricharak have been awarded a Mosaic subsidy by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The winners - talented young scientists from ethnic minority backgrounds - will each receive € 200,000 to carry out PhD research over a period of four years.
Mosaic subsidy for PhD research

Rubicon, Veni, Vidi and Vici grants

• Rubicon grant for Wouter van der Linden

• Leiden researchers abroad with a Rubicon subsidy

• Veni grants for 14 young Leiden researchers

• Seven Vidi grants voor Leiden Researchers (Dutch)  

• Four Vici awards for Leiden researchers

Millions for Leiden physicists and education specialists in Gravitation programme
Leiden physicists and education specialists are involved in three national partnerships that are to receive millions in research funding from the Ministry of Education for a ten-year research programme. These are part of the Gravitation subdsidies for leading national consortia. In total, six projects have been selected that will together receive 167 million euro. 
Millions for Leiden physicists and education specialists in Gravitation programme

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• Millions for Leiden research programmes

• Theoretical physics: Matter at all scales

• At the frontiers of nanoscience

• Chemistry in Leiden awarded NWO funds for three research schools

• Two major NWO subsidies for language research in Leiden

• Substantial investment in Leiden centre for NMR spectroscopy

• Three NWO grants for talented Leiden researchers

Anton Akhmerov

Anton Akhmerov wins FOM Physics PhD Prize 2012
The winner of the FOM (Fundamental Material Research in Physics) PhD prize 2012 is theoretical physicist Dr Anton Akhmerov. He carried out his PhD research under the supervision of Professor Carlo Beenakker and defended his PhD thesis cum laude in May 2011 at Leiden University.
Anton Akhmerov wins FOM Physics PhD Prize 2012

• Tenth STW subsidy for Professor Joke Bouwstra
• Environmental Sciences Research Prize awarded to David Font

• Award for modern study of Sumerian cuneiform by Bram Jagersma

• PhD student Iryna Ievdokymova wins the Ars Aequi Prize 2011

iSPEX team wins 2012 Academic Year Prize
The iSPEX team ‘Measuring particulates with your smartphone’ in which Leiden University is a participant, has won the 2012 Academic Year Prize. The team beat their two competitors, both from Groningen, at the finale on 25 October in Leiden's Concert Hall.
iSPEX team wins 2012 Academic Year Prize

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• Freek Vonk wins Eureka prize for communicating Science

• Nadine Chahine: ‘A touch of genius’

• Skin monitor app wins prizes

• Prize for Leiden film on Mexican Indian conflict

• Zenobia essay prize for Dr. Miguel John Versluys

• Prizes for Anton Akhmerov and Maartje van den Heuvel at the Opening of the Academic Year

Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck appointed Academy Professor
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) has awarded an Academy Professorship to Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden University.
Ewine van Dishoeck appointed Academy Professor

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Four new Leiden members of KNAW

Honorary Doctorates at Leiden for Arabists Patricia Crone & Michael Cook and for translator Rien Verhoef
Translator of English-language literature Rien Verhoef is to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Leiden University. Arabists cum historians Patricia Crone and Michael Cook will also be awarded an Honorary Doctorate. The doctorates will be conferred on 8 February 2013 on the 438th anniversary of the founding of the University
Honorary Doctorates at Leiden for Arabists Patricia Crone & Michael Cook and for translator Rien Verhoef

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Honorary doctorate from Uppsala University for Prof. Rob Verpoorte