To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

Sinds de oprichting is LUC een college voor onderwijsontwikkeling en experimentatie. In de missie van het college wordt LUC beschreven als "een plek van innovatie op het gebied van didactiek, curriculumontwerp en studentwelzijn." Deze visie wordt toegepast via een studentgerichte benadering in het onderwijs…

The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester

Voor, tijdens en na het Oekraïnereferendum op 6 april leverden Leidse wetenschappers opiniestukken en stonden uiteenlopende media te woord. Een voorlopig overzicht.

Veel vraagstukken van onze tijd zijn te complex om vanuit één wetenschapsgebied op te kunnen lossen. De Universiteit Leiden is een brede universiteit waar ongelofelijk veel onderzoeksvelden samenkomen. Daarom zijn we bij uitstek geschikt als broedplaats en beoefenaar van interdisciplinair onderzoek…

Op 17 december 2018 verdedigde Dejian Kong zijn proefschrift 'Civil Liability for Damage caused by Global Navigation Satellite System'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. P.M.J. Mendes de Leon.

Less than 1 in 10 drug candidates that enter phase 1 clinical trials actually gets approved for human use.

In this PhD study, I aim to deepen our understanding of the influence of major mycorrhizal types, namely arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) and ectomycorrhizae (EM), on the global soil carbon cycle and their potential distribution changes under future environmental shifts.

In dit artikel heeft Lianne Visser bijgedragen aan het begrip rondom samenwerkend bestuur als uitdagende aanpak voor hardnekkige problemen.

The challenge of achieving fast quantification in metabolomics is the presence of severe matrix effects during the MS analysis of complex samples.

In dit artikel wordt onderzocht hoe de dreiging van terrorisme op beleidsniveau is aangepakt door middel van een analyse van een specifiek in Mali.

ls onderdeel van hun M.Sc.programma, werken ICT in Business studenten aan projected geinspireerd op concrete problemen die voortkomen uit echte situaties binnen bedrijven.

The expanding population and economic activity are driving up global energy consumption. Simultaneously, there is an urgent need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources to mitigate the climate crisis, primarily caused by fossil fuel combustion.

This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law.

Advanced mass spectrometry of glycosphingolipids takes the central stage in this thesis. Investigations focus on characterization of glycosphingolipid metabolism in health and disease with emphasis to the detection and accurate quantitation of known and so far unknown glycosphingolipids and closely…

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

What can we learn from the diverse institutional logics of smart government in East Asia to inform cross-institutional AI governance?

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

This dissertation takes an important step in understanding the phenomenon of non-take-up of social support and what it means for contemporary social policies.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.

What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?

In dit artikel onderzoekt Sophie Vériter hoe een kleine staat het veiligheidsbestuur van de EU beïnvloedt.

Hoe worden nachtruimtes verbeeld, geproduceerd, ervaren en verteld door migrantengemeenschappen in Europa? Dit onderzoeksproject onderzoekt deze vraag in acht Europese steden: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlijn, Cork, Galway, Lissabon, Londen en Rotterdam.

In dit artikel analyseren Lydie Cabane en Martin Lodge analyseren de invloed van institutionele keuzes op het aanpassen van beleidsintegratie in grensoverschrijdende crisisbeheersing.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew

What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

We strive to address the challenge of constructing a modeling language to write software which can take advantage of recent hardware developments (multicore, cloud) without compromising in its abstraction levels.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: W.A. Kosters

Metabolomics has the potential to play a pivotal role in understanding disease onset and progression, and ultimately personalized treatments. One of its major challenges is its large-scale implementation, which is necessary to deal with the high variability of the metabolome. In this work we have developed…

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

Sinds begin dit jaar bestaat het LDE-Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity, dat met een multidisciplinaire blik naar bestuurs- en beleidsvraagstukken in vier Zuid-Hollandse steden kijkt. Bijzonder is dat er al afgestudeerde masterstudenten op dit specialistische gebied rondlopen.

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

Een online platform met leerzame en sociale uitdagingen ter voorbereiding op de veranderende arbeidsmarkt. Met dat idee won het team Piece of Skill op 27 augustus de Deans' Challenge. In deze wedstrijd bedenken studenten oplossingen voor mondiale zorgen, geselecteerd door decanen van de Universiteit…

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

This thesis focuses on important life history traits and their trade-offs using two hexapod models. Particularly, the trade-off between immune defense and embryonic developmental speed is a central theme of this study.

Esmée Driessen, onderzoeks- en onderwijsmedewerkster verbonden aan de afdeling Staats- en bestuursrecht, reisde vorige week met een delegatie van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken naar London. Daar wilde zij meer leren over de toepassing van het zogenoemde Right to Challenge in het Verenigd Koni…

Hoe hebben humanitaire organisaties voorbereidings- en responsstrategieën voor cyberincidenten afgestemd op hun specifieke prioriteiten, behoeften en context?

At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.