One of the most important puzzles in modern astrophysics is the nature of dark matter.

Promotor: F.H.J. Redig, Co-Promotor: W.T.F. den Hollander

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

Biological cells, the basic building blocks of all life forms, are surrounded by a lipid membrane. More than half of the membrane is occupied by membrane proteins, which can regulate the cell functionality through specific arrangements.

During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel, M. van Heel

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: T.H. Reijmers

The unit residue group, to which the present thesis is devoted, is defined using the norm-residue symbol, which Hilbert introduced into algebraic number theory in 1897.

Multiple stars, that is two or more stars composing a gravitationally bound system, are common in the universe.

Large carnivore population is globally declining as a result of the fragmentation of habitat, large prey depletion and retaliatory killing by pastoralists.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotor: T.J. de Jong

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke

Galaxies form and evolve through close interaction with their surroundings. As a result, the heavy elements ('metals') that are synthesized in stars, are found both inside and outside galaxies.

Het gebruik van ‘Big data’ is niet meer weg te denken binnen het wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Voor dit onderzoek maken we gebruiken van diverse grote databestanden.

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.

In this PhD-thesis several new and existing data science application are described that are particularly focused on applications for tax administrations.

Promotors: W. Jiskoot; G.J. Witkamp, Co-promotor: M.R. Nejadnik

Control of infectious diseases poses continuous challenges for human health.

Glycoside hydrolases (glycosidases/GHs) are widely abundant enzymes in all kingdoms of life and are important biocatalysts that catalyze the hydrolysis of glycosidic linkages in oligo/polysaccharides, glycoproteins and glycolipids with tremendous efficiency

Promotores: G.W. Canters, T.J. Aartsma

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: T.R. van Andel

Promotor: J. Zaanen

In most applications, electrocatalysts exhibit a large surface area to volume ratio, for example using nanoparticles.

Drug development is a time- and resource-consuming process that starts with the discovery and validation of a (protein) target that contributes to pathogenesis or disease progression.

This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

“Temminck’s Order” is the scientific biography of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1850), a Dutch naturalist and the first director of ’s Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden.

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.

A dense region of a gaseous and dusty cloud collapses to form a protostar surrounded by a disk and an envelope. This thesis uses both observations and models to study physical and chemical conditions of these protostellar systems which are likely where planets start to form.

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets. Co-promotores: B. Gravendeel, F. Pupulin

Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.

Mining time series is a machine learning subfield that focuses on a particular data structure, where variables are measured over (short or long) periods of time.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotor: O.W. van Gaans

As leading cause of death worldwide, cancer is responsible for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 according to World Health Organization (WHO). Cisplatin and its derivatives are commonly used chemotherapy agents for current cancer treatment in the clinics.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. C.A. Mandemakers, Co-Promotor: G. Bloothooft

The work in this thesis describes the fundamental role of Lkb1 as a conductor of metabolism-related processes in zebrafish larvae.

This thesis systematically analyzes the physical-chemistry of lipid-graphene interactions with the major objective of reconciliating the variety of results reported in the literature.

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra

Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen

Despite being the object of intense study, embryonic development has been difficult to model due to a number of reasons. First, complex tissues can be comprised of many cell types, of which we probably only know a subset.

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée

This thesis mainly extends the theory of positive operators on Riesz spaces to a setting of pre-Riesz spaces.

Heterogeneous catalysis is one of the fundamental processes of modern life, being common in industrial refinery and hydrogen vehicles, all the way to the living cell. The dissociation of H2 on Cu(111) is an important benchmark system for studying heterogeneous catalysis, with a large and varied amount…