Ongoing microwear analysis of the flint artefacts from the Funnelbeaker period suggests that flint had a pivotal role in the representation and structuration of the cosmological order of Funnelbeaker society.

Examining if large scale application of new energy pathways can be constrained by materials and emissions.

RaMa-Scene is a web-application to create and analyse circular economy scenarios using Multi-regional Environmentally Extendend Input-Output Analysis.

The research group of Semonti Bhattacharyya at the Leiden Institute of Physics studies quantum transport measurements in Van der Waals heterostructures.

Dynamics of material, social and ideological relationships in the pre-Columbian insular Caribbean

New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period

New Approaches to Understanding the Eastern Mediterranean during Byzantine and Ottoman Times

Kaveh Lahabi's lab explores the exotic physics of quantum materials, whose underlying physics seems to have more in common with elementary particles and black holes, than ordinary metals and semiconductors.

Geometric phases lead to a nontrivial interference result when an electron's different quantum mechanical paths choices encircle a magnetic coil in an Aharonov-Bohm experiment.

An account of the total of material flows going in, out and through Amsterdam.

The use-wear analysis of domestic implements provided new insights of the Single Grave Culture population in the Netherlands.

In the Aarts lab we combine or structure materials, mostly in thin film form, in such a way that the hybrid has different and novel properties or functionalities.

the production, use and exchange of bodily accoutrements through the lenses of the microscope

What are the possibilities of converting biowaste streams into value added products? What current and future technologies will enable this transition with minimal environmental and economic costs? The researchers in H2 steel project will enable the transition of sewage sludge into green hydrogen, steel…

Can the pink-pigmented microbe Methylobacterium extorquens be genetically engineered to convert the sustainable raw material methanol into antibiotics?

The central question of this thesis is: What drives late Middle Paleolithic stone artifact variability? In its attempt to answer this question, this thesis is a contribution to understanding variability within and between late Middle Paleolithic assemblages of the European Plain.

Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden

A contextual approach to anthropomorphic figurines in the Pavlovian (Central Europe, 29-24 kyr BP) (2001)

Lithic Biographies in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, Prof. Annelou van Gijn (2010)

The production, use, and exchange of bodily ornaments through the lenses of the microscope

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

A Functional Analysis of Pre-Columbian Shell and Stone Artefacts from Anse à la Gourde and Morel, Guadeloupe, FWI

Dlshad Marf defended his thesis on 4 July 2016

The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30,000 - 20,000 BP

This dissertation takes a technological approach to ceramic production and provides a fine-grained view of the circum-Caribbean region.

On 19 February 2020, Richard Jiang defended his thesis '‘Greening’ the WTO Ban on China’s Export Duties'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. M.C.E.J. Bronckers.

Middle Paleolithic stone tool technology is one of the major sources of information about Neandertal behavior and adaptations. The Balkan Middle Paleolithic often remains outside of the major debates and interpretations of Neandertal behavior.

Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn

Lecture, LAC Asia Academy

The role of material production as a driver of environmental impacts is increasing, which calls for a better understanding of global material flows. This thesis explores the role of in-use stocks of products, buildings and infrastructure as a key driver of global material demand and discusses the implications…

Perception of material culture, design and digital knowledge applications

In this Ph.D. thesis we study the interaction of low energy electrons with thin materials, namely layered materials (graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, molybdenum disulfide) and organic films. At these low energies the quantum mechanical wavelength of the electron wave function is in the order of a…

The Faculty of Archaeology's own home-grown journal Inter-Section has released a new volume. Inter-Section offers students and PhD candidates the unique chance to publish in a peer-reviewed journal. The new volume focuses on the materials that shape our world.

On 14 September, Erik Plas defended the thesis'Material amendments to public contracts in public procurement law'. The doctoral research was supervised by Jan Hebly and Bart Krans.

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

The group of Dr. Roxanne Kieltyka designs and synthesizes molecules that self-assemble into polymeric materials using specific non-covalent interactions. These substrates can be used for numerous applications in medicine ranging from disease detection to cell delivery depending on the (bio)molecular…

In this thesis, time-lapse fluorescent microscopy plays a pivotal role in investigating functional materials within living cells as well as the migratory behaviour of neural progenitor cells.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.

The studies in this thesis are focused on the physical effects in the flat band materials. The results contain the discovery of strong enhancement of RKKY spin-spin interactions with specific geometric arrangement and dynamical generation of excitonic order parameter with high magnitude.

Innovating objects in a Eurasian center of the Late Hellenistic period.

In our lab, we investigate the physics and material properties of low-dimensional systems.

Coordination chemistry is the chemistry of metal atoms

Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human is edited by Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker and Philip R. Olson

A neolithic settlement on the Dutch North Sea coast c. 3500 CAL BC.

How can we ensure a more resilient and sustainable supply of Rare Earths in the EU in the future?

This dissertation studies the formation of the wage laboring class in the Iranian oil industry during the first decades of the 20th century.

PURPOSE: In the present study we investigated the root-cause of an interference signal (100-200 nm) of sugar-containing solutions in dynamic light scattering (DLS) and nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) and its consequences for the analysis of particles in biopharmaceutical drug products.