A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

The electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an essential half-reaction for the utilization of hydrogen as a sustainable fuel, via the conversion of hydrogen to electrons and protons facilitated by the ORR. In the most common fuel cells, the ORR is requires high loadings of non-abundant platinum…

The last decades it is increasingly recognized that acute as well as chronic postoperative pain is an important problem. Treatment and prevention of postoperative pain is a challenge, especially in special patient populations where there is only limited guidance on how to optimally use opioids.

A tidal basin is an inland sea which is almost entirely enclosed by land and connected to the open sea by a tidal inlet. Through the tidal inlets interaction takes place between the tidal basin and the open sea.

Op 26 juni 2019 verdedigde Lisa Louwerse haar proefschrift 'The EU’s Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law in its External Relations: Case Studies on Development Cooperation and Enlargement'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. mr. C.A.P. Hillion.

Op vrijdag 11 december 2020 vond het eindejaarsseminar van Empirical Legal Studies plaats, uiteraard geheel coronaproof online. Via dit seminar konden collega’s en andere geïnteresseerden op een laagdrempelige manier meer te weten komen over het toepassen van empirische onderzoeksmethoden in de rec…

‘Religie is overal’ – dat is de eerste zin uit de missie van het nieuwe Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR). Na intensieve voorbereiding en in nauwe samenwerking met het Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), is LUCSoR vandaag van start gegaan. Dit nieuwe centrum…

The thesis explores how interstellar chemistry evolves as a function of time and changing physical architectures during the formation of stars.

On Monday 26 August, students were warmly welcomed at the Wijnhaven location with a blue carpet and live music. Accompanied by their friends and family, they gathered to receive their BSc Security Studies diploma.

Zo’n 200 academici uit alle werelddelen komen bij elkaar in Leiden om te spreken over de bijdrage van rechters aan maatschappelijke verandering. De Leidse Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid is de plaats van de conferentie.

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given…

In het kader van het sectorplan Rechtsgeleerdheid zijn twee PhD-kandidaten aangesteld die sinds 16 maart 2020 werken binnen het project Empirical Legal Studies.

Lezing, Onderdeel van een serie

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, B. Sinsin, Co-Promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Bouwen aan een levendige Humanities Campus met een groene buitenruimte die ontmoeting stimuleert.

Het erkennen van het werk en de inzet van de medewerkers van de Universiteit Leiden is een stap dichter bij een duurzamere universiteit.

Wil jij de beste start beleven van je studententijd in Leiden? Dan moet je zeker de EL CID lopen. Tijdens deze introductieweek maak je veel lol en nieuwe vriendschappen, maar leer je ook de stad en universiteit kennen.

Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the main reasons for drug attrition during pre-clinical and clinical phases of drug development as well as for drug withdrawal post-marketing.

Promotor: J. Aarts

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.A.J. Knibbe, Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. K. Allegaert (Leuven)

The book ‘Bestrijdingsmiddelen en Milieu' gives a transparent overview of facts and figures concerning pesticide use in the Netherlands and the impact of pesticides on the environment.

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

We present an extensive study of methods for exactly solving stochastic constraint (optimisation) problems (SCPs) in network analysis. These problems are prevalent in science, governance and industry.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M de Groot, Co-Promotor: A. Alia

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

Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a gram-negative plant pathogen belonging to the family Rhizobiaceae, is the causative agent of crown gall disease, which can affect many plant species including agronomically important ones.

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

On the largest scale, the Universe resembles a cosmic spiderweb. Most galaxies coexist in small groups within the threads of this web. At the nodes of the threads are enormous groups of galaxies forming the largest structures in the universe still held together by gravity: clusters of galaxies.

The haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) comprise about 4000 species distributed over a wide range of habitats, with great gametophytic and sporophytic morphological variation. Their monophyly is well supported by the results of several molecular phylogenetic studies, which shed light on their relationships…

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

The parabolic Anderson model (PAM), which is the Cauchy problem for the heat equation with random potential. The PAM is a mathematical model that describes how mass (i.e. matter or energy) flows in a medium in the presence of a field of sources and sinks.

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.

Galaxies are environments where gas coalesces, cools, and is converted into stars. However, it remains unclear the exact mechanisms through which galaxies acquire, redistribute and lose their gas.

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

Hoe werkt een hoorcollege? Wat houdt Urban Studies in? En wat kun je later met International Studies? Tijdens de Experience Day konden studiekiezers kennismaken met de Haagse opleidingen van de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen.

Hoogleraar Antje Wessels heeft een NWO Open Competitie-subsidie ontvangen om onderzoek te doen naar fragmentarische teksten.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Co-Promotor: N.S. Pannu

Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

In this thesis I describe the results of Pulsed Interleaved Excitation and Fluorescence (Cross) Correlation Spectroscopy (PIE-F(C)CS) combined with single-pair Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (spFRET) used to study dynamics in single nucleosomes, which depends on subtle differences in the length of…