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Hi! My name is Frank and I’m currently an Astronomy Research master student. I am mainly interested in (exo)planets and astrobiology. Apart from astronomy, journalism is my biggest occupation. I love working with this group of editors to discover and exhibit our beautiful faculty.

Articles

Opinion

Let's not be STEM-supremacists

A plea for respecting fundamentally different ways of acquiring knowledge.

Frank Rensen • April 21, 2023

Interview

A modest person, yet bold mathematician

All of doctoral student Jared Duker Lichtman’s spare time was put into proving an old mathematical problem. When he finally succeeded, it even surprised himself.

Frank Rensen • October 08, 2022

Interview

The science in the cards of ImmunoWars

Imagine: you’d like to bring the current state of immunology to the general public in an understandable and fun way. That’s quite a challenge, so how can you best go about it? Well, with a card game of course!

Frank Rensen • November 22, 2021

News

The future of European AI regulation

How do you regulate AI? And do you do it on a European scale? Editor Frank Rensen dives into this question by interviewing the experts.

Frank Rensen • July 15, 2021

How Players and Mathematicians in Leiden Look At Chess

To some, chess is a game. To others, it's a scientific puzzle to be solved. We dive into both these worlds by talking to the experts!

Frank Rensen • March 04, 2021

Background

A Mathematical In Memoriam of John Conway

On April 11th 2020, the world lost one of its most creative scientists in Dr. John Horton Conway. He died of COVID-19 at 82 years of age in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Frank Rensen • January 19, 2021