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Foundational and curiosity-driven physics research and education
A world first at the microscopic scale: Metamaterials that can shrink and expand on their own. Published in Nature, research by Julio Melio,
@danielajkraft.bsky.social
, Martin van Hecke and Silke Henkes:
edu.nl/kuj9x
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Pivoting colloidal assemblies exhibit mechanical metamaterial behaviour - Nature
A method is described for the manufacture of pivoting colloidal assemblies comprising rotating diamond and rotating triangle geometries that show tunable folding and unfolding by thermal fluctuations&...
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🔬 A new microscope for the quantum era! How do quantum materials really behave? Leiden physicists and QuantaMap technicians have now built an instrument that allows us to see this directly for the first time.
edu.nl/bpybp
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A new microscope for the quantum age: finally seeing how quantum materials behave
Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale precision. The instrument can even examine complete q...
https://edu.nl/bpybp
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The ITCILO Masterclass 🔸Quantum Readiness for the World of Work🔸 has officially opened! Great teamwork by the International Training Centre of the ILO, Quantum Delta Leiden ( @unileiden.bsky.social and QuantumDeltaNL) and Politecnico di Torino. Watch the trailer:
vimeo.com/1159644952/2...
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🎓 Are you considering a
#PHYSICS
#master’s
programme? On 6 February 2026, Leiden University hosts the Master’s Open Day. Come and visit us!
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Master in Physics - Leiden University | Leiden Institute of Physics - LION
🎓 Are you considering a #PHYSICS master’s programme? On 6 February 2026, Leiden University hosts the Master’s Open Day. https://lnkd.in/eWVz3cxb The 8 specialisations offered in our MSc Physics programme : 🔸 Theoretical Physics: you follow a two-year programme constisting of 3/5ths of coursework and one 9month long project that prepares you for scientific research towards a PhD in a broad range of topics in theoretical Physics. 🔸 Quantum Matter and Optics: you follow a programme in experimental physics constisting of 50% course work and 2 research projects in Condensed Matter problems. 🔸 Biological and Soft Matter Physics: you follow a programme in experimental physics consisting of 50% coursework and 2 research projects in Biophysics or Soft Matter. 🔸 Cosmology: You follow a joined programme with the department of Astronomy where you cover all aspects of modern astrophysics and carry out research projects tackling observation, interpretation, simulation and theory. 🔸 Physics and Business Studies: You combine a training in Physics (1 year of courses and research project) with courses in business and entrepreneurship and an internship with a company 🔸 Physics and Education (in Dutch): You combine a training in Physics (1 year of courses and research project) with courses in education and a teaching internship at a Dutch highschool. It leads to a teaching qualification valid for secondary education. 🔸 Physics and Science Communication and Society (SCS): You combine a training in Physics (1 year of coursework and research project) with courses in communication and relating science to the public. #master #masterprogramme | Marije Boonstra | Koenraad Schalm | Leiden Science - Universiteit Leiden
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Ivo van Vulpen
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Vandaag verdedigde Aletta Meinsma bij
@unileiden.bsky.social
haar proefschrift over haar onderzoek naar communicatie over quantum(technologie) - met
@juliacramer.bsky.social
,
@ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
en Gudrun Reijnierse. Belangrijkste punten:
inpress.studiowetenschap.nl/alettameinsm...
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Leiden Institute of Physics
Ivo van Vulpen
about 1 month ago
Gisterenavond tijdens een bijeenkomsten voor natuurkundedocenten uit het voortgezet onderwijs (Contact.VWO - organisatie Lianne van der Meer) een schitterende lezing van Jan Aarts van
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over de natuurkunde achter de Nobelprijs natuurkunde 2025. 🤩
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prof. John van Noort: ‘Our research can already analyse DNA on a large scale at single-molecule level. With this joint
@science.org
article, we place our techniques in a broader context and describe opportunities for future research.’
edu.nl/rctx4
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🌐 🎮 Learn about quantum by playing! The Quantum Game Lab of
@unileiden.bsky.social
hosted a workshop of Carlos Errando Herranz and his QuTech team for secondary school students. This Qbead helps to explain the concept of qubits.
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#PhD
candidate Aletta Meinsma investigated how people understand
#quantum
— and what role communication plays in that process. Her findings reveal a striking
#paradox
: increased understanding, but lower confidence:
edu.nl/h4dxw
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Communicating about quantum: explanations improve understanding but reduce confidence
Quantum technology has the potential to transform society. But how can you effectively inform the public about such complex and enigmatic science and technology? PhD candidate Aletta Meinsma explored ...
https://edu.nl/h4dxw
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🎓 Leiden’s High-Tech Innovation master’s specialisation is a brand-new track, designed for students aiming to pursue a research-driven career in industry. HTI bridges the gap between cutting-edge science and market-ready solutions.
edu.nl/3eaet
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🌟 Young Talent Award 2025 was awarded out to Leiden physics student Jelle Oonk. He won the prize for the best
#bachelor's
thesis for his research on
#neutrinos
. Well done, Jelle!
about 2 months ago
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Leiden Institute of Physics
Daniela J Kraft
about 2 months ago
Floppy lattices are exciting model systems, however, so far, we have been making them by optical tweezers. Our newest work by
@yogeshshelke.bsky.social
and with
@danpearce.bsky.social
in
@natcomms.nature.com
uses self-assembly through tuning of the kinetic pathways:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Self-assembly pathways towards floppy colloidal square lattices - Nature Communications
Rearrangements govern many properties of materials and molecules, but it has been largely unexplored how to create flexible structures from the bottom up. Here, the authors use colloidal particle...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67792-4
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Componeren als een natuurkundige: ‘Muziek ervaren gaat veel verder dan taal’. Lees dit artikel op Mare online over het concert op 10 december in de Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden.
edu.nl/em4bd
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#piano
#quantum
#music
3 months ago
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Microscopy reinvented: peeking into living worlds by
@sensevdmolen.bsky.social
. Tuesday Talk at our
@leidenscience.bsky.social
at 16.00 on December 9 2025.
edu.nl/6uqnk
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Componeren als een natuurkundige: ‘Muziek ervaren gaat veel verder dan taal’. Prachtig artikel over het concert van Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin, vandaag in de Mare!
edu.nl/vg9dt
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3 months ago
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🎉 NWO en Groeifonds-financiering voor onderzoek naar slimme chips die op licht reageren. De onderzoeksgroep van Michiel de Dood van de
@unileiden.bsky.social
ontwikkelt slimme chips die ze met licht kunnen instellen. Lees meer:
edu.nl/c9jyv
.
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3 months ago
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NWO Perspectief Funding awarded to project PURECOOL to develop the freezers of the future, with prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp of Leiden University. Read more:
edu.nl/tcrrw
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3 months ago
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🎶🎹 Ontdek de
#Quantum
#Muziek
van Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin op 10 December in de Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden. Een avond vol kunst en wetenschap: een lezing, een gedicht en een pianoconcert. Er zijn nog tickets — mis deze kans niet om erbij te zijn!
tinyurl.com/2zr6hju6
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Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin - Pianoconcert Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin - Leidse Schouwburg - Stadsgehoorzaal
Een avond vol kunst & wetenschap - een pianoconcert door pianist, componist en schrijver Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin.
https://tinyurl.com/2zr6hju6
3 months ago
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Listening to the deep sea: NWO Roadmap funding for the highly successful
#KM3NeT
telescope! Leiden physicist Dorothea Samtleben: ‘This funding will enable us to finish our detector and address long-standing, crucial, and unresolved questions in particle physics'.
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4 months ago
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Quantum theatershow voor 1600 Amsterdamse basisschoolkinderen, mede ontwikkeld door Michiel Thijssen van
#Quantum
Delta Leiden. Hét educatieproject van Editie 14
#Amsterdam
Lights Festival.
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🎉 NWO Vidi grant for Bas Hensen and Evert van Nieuwenburg! These two physicists will continue their research on🧲Levitated magnets with a twist and a spin: towards macroscopic quantum superpositions and 🎮Formal games for solving hard quantum control problems.
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4 months ago
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Postdoctoral researcher vacancy Are you interested in research at the intersection of ML and quantum sciences? How about working with Anna Dawid at LIACS and the
LeidenPhysics.bsky.social
. Apply by November 17th!
edu.nl/4uyhe
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4 months ago
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🎹Pianist Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin brings music and science together in Leiden during this concert at the Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden on December 10, 2025! Learn more about the concert:
edu.nl/gc7hk
, get your tickets:
edu.nl/tutnx
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5 months ago
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reposted by
Leiden Institute of Physics
Ivo van Vulpen
5 months ago
Ik had twee virtuele personages nodig in mijn relativiteitstheorie college: de beroemde waarnemers die ten opzichte van elkaar bewegen. Heb mijn keuzevrijheid gebruikt om onze student-assistenten Rosa en Tim van
@leidenphysics.bsky.social
een rol in het verhaal te geven.
#MinorDeMysterieuzeRealiteit
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Now online in journal American Physical Society: 'Unoccupied bands in the molybdenum dichalcogenides MoS2, MoSe2, and MoTe2' by J. Jobst, E.E. Krasovskii, R. Ribeiro, T. A. de Jong, C.R. Dean, R.M. Tromp and
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DOI:
doi.org/10.1103/8hvv...
5 months ago
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Leiden Institute of Physics
Ali Azadbakht
8 months ago
🔗 Paper link below if you’d like the details.
doi.org/10.1039/d4sm...
🙌 Thanks to
@danielajkraft.bsky.social
for brilliant work and guidance, and to
@leidenphysics.bsky.social
for funding the project. Interested in membrane mechanics or how we perform experiments? Feel free to contact me.
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Repulsions and attractions between membrane-deforming spheres, Janus-particles, and opposite tube-like deformations in giant unilamellar vesicles
Lipid membrane deformations have been predicted to lead to indirect forces between the objects that induce these deformations. Recent experimental measurements have found an attractive interaction bet...
https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm01415d
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Leiden Institute of Physics
Ivo van Vulpen
8 months ago
Muurformule merchandise
@sensevdmolen.bsky.social
🤩 De
#GIREP
conferentie over natuurkunde onderwijs wordt dit jaar (deze week) georganiseerd door
@leidenphysics.bsky.social
. De organisatie vond muurformulemokken een goed idee. Wij ook 😀 GIREP programma:
indico.cern.ch/event/1175859/
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Leiden Institute of Physics
Julia Eckert
6 months ago
The last paper from my PhD is now online! 🥳 👉
pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/arti...
We have designed a new device based on the elastic micropillar array assay to measure the detachment forces between spread cells.
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🐯The
#Quantum
Safari — an interactive journey that reveals how quantum is already part of our everyday lives, and how much more is possible. This Saturday, we’ll be at the
#NachtvanOntdekkingen
at the Oude Sterrewacht in
#Leiden
, starting from 7 PM
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@unileiden.bsky.social
5 months ago
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📢 The House of Quantum in
#Leiden
has officially opened! At LION, we are very proud to host this first location of the HoQ outside of Delft! This new hub brings
#quantum
to the health, bio- and med-tech sector at the Bio Science Park!
@leidenscience.bsky.social
@unileiden.bsky.social
edu.nl/aq6fa
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6 months ago
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LION Science Day 2025! Our annual first event of the new academic year: welcoming our first-year master's students and new
#PhD's
and
#Postdocs
to our institute by highlighting the newest research and socializing.
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6 months ago
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📢Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) is
#hiring
a faculty member in experimental quantum physics (tenure-track, Asst. Prof. level, higher possible). Join us in exploring the limits of
#quantummechanics
! Apply by Oct 5, 2025 👉
edu.nl/hyt88
6 months ago
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Leiden Institute of Physics
KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
6 months ago
De KNAW kent dit jaar de 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘇𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 toe aan een van de belangrijkste natuurkundigen van onze tijd: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗲, hoogleraar aan de University of Pennsylvania
@upenn.edu
. Alle info hier -->
knaw.nl/nieuws/loren...
C#kwantumfysica
#QuantumPhysics
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Lorentz Medal is awarded to professor Charles Kane of
@upenn.edu
on the 11th of December 2025, Robbert Dijkgraaf (
@knaw-nl.bsky.social
) will hand over this prestigious award for theoretical physics during our Symposium '100 Years of Spin'. Read more:
edu.nl/aycdg
6 months ago
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#Activematter
research by Marine Le Blay, Joshua Saldi & Alexandre Morin from
@unileiden.bsky.social
published in
@natphys.nature.com
! Read more:
edu.nl/btmta
.
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#physics
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7 months ago
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📢 More than 7 million views worldwide: A material that gets shorter when you pull it (and why that’s useful) by
#phyics
Professor Martin van Hecke of
@unileiden.bsky.social
,
@amolf-nl.bsky.social
and
@arcnl.bsky.social
. See video:
edu.nl/yjkte
.
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7 months ago
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A Dutch-American
#physicist
team have discovered a new route toward what could be the first-ever measurement of
#ultralight
#darkmatter
. They suspended a microscopic magnet inside a
#superconducting
enclosure, cooled to near 0 Kelvin.
t.ly/VHe0h
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8 months ago
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The 5-day conference on Physics Education
#GIREP
was officially opened today by
@sensevdmolen.bsky.social
, scientific director Leiden Institute of Physics and Roeland van der Rijst of ICLON Universiteit Leiden!
8 months ago
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Leiden physicist Vincent Koeman answered children's science questions during the Klokhuis-vragendag 2025! 'They had great questions!', says Koeman. 'From questions about magnetic trains to the formation of whirlpools.'
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8 months ago
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#ScienceWonders
by Stichting Rino: 500 primary school children learned about
#Astronomy
,
#DrugDevelopment
, and
#Technology
. The grand finale was the spectacular RINO Experiment Battle! This is how kids get excited about science 🎉.
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8 months ago
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🎉 KIEM Grant voor
@juliacramer.bsky.social
💵! Met hoogleraar Vanessa Mak van de Leiden Law School start Julia een interdisciplinair project: ‘Law and Entanglement: exploring the legal implications of
#quantum
applications in the consumer market’.
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9 months ago
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Celebrating 450 years of research at
@unileiden.bsky.social
University,
#detijdvooruit
! 📷 Today we show "Then & Now #2", featuring
#quantum
materials research. Read more:
t.ly/paJI_
9 months ago
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🧑🎓 ‘Doing a
#PhD
in experimental physics is never boring!’ How Guido Stam built a microscope that can measure bacteria without causing harm!’ Read more
t.ly/UenTl
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9 months ago
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🏆 Thanks to a €4.8 million grant from the NWO (Dutch Research Council), a consortium will develop a national facility for atomic-scale research into novel materials. Read more:
t.ly/O7pcx
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9 months ago
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🎓New professor! We are very proud to announce the appointment of Alessandra Silvestri as
#Professor
of Theoretical
#Physics
in the area of
#Cosmology
. For Alessandra, this promotion in Leiden is 'the icing on the cake' – though far from the final chapter:
t.ly/uB4p3
10 months ago
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Dit weekend stonden we stil bij 80 jaar vrijheid in Nederland: LION herdenkt vandaag twee slachtoffers van
#WOII
. 🕯️Arie Bijl, theoretisch natuurkundige, 37 jaar. 🕯️Henri Roos, student instrumentmaker, 22 jaar oud
#4en5mei
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10 months ago
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Quantum Leiden celebrated World Quantum Day in Enschede 🎉 Leiden researcher Evert van Nieuwenburg stressed the importance of games to learn complex quantumtechnology: for example by using Quantum Fish Blocksphere or Quantum Tic Tac Toe
#IYQ2025
#quantum
#physics
Try it yourself:
tiqtaqtoe.com
11 months ago
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#Fysica2025
is van start in
#Leiden
!
#quantum
#neutrino
#TiqTacToe
,
#keynote
, Young Speakers Contest, Natuurkundedocent van het jaar 2025, HBO Jong Talentprijs, Physica prize winner, Focus sessions,
#Nobel
prize lecture. Veel plezier aan allen!
@unileiden.bsky.social
@leidenscience.bsky.social
11 months ago
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🎉Een
#natuurkunde
#minor
voor studenten van alle academische opleidingen. De mysterieuze realiteit:
#quantummechanica
,
#oerknal
en
#relativiteitstheorie
ontrafeld voor iedereen. Vertel het door!
@unileiden.bsky.social
@leidenarchaeo.bsky.social
@leidenhumanities.bsky.social
@leidenlaw.bsky.social
11 months ago
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🏆Liru Feng wins LION Image Award 2025! His photo titled 'Entangled Fate: From Fluid to Rigid' was awarded best research image of the year.
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11 months ago
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