With the help of quantum mechanics, digital quantum hardware may be able to tackle some of the problems that are too difficult for ordinary computers. But despite these expectations and the ongoing effort of the research community, reliable quantum computers are not yet realized in a lab setting.

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

Dit is een praktische handleiding gericht op promovendi, Research Master studenten en early-career researchers uit alle vakgebieden. De instructies in de gids zijn bedoeld als inspiratie voor jonge onderzoekers en als hulp om Open Science te beoefenen door hun onderzoek zo open als mogelijk te delen…

Promotor: A.P.IJzerman Co-promotor: A. Bender

Op 9 april promoveert Manolis Fragkiadakis. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Manolis!

Op 5 juni 2018 verdedigde Emile Beenakker zijn proefschrift getiteld ‘The implementation of international law in the national legal order: A legislative perspective’. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor professor W.J.M. Voermans.

Fokelien Kootstra verdedigde haar proefschrift op 23 april 2019

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotor: J.J. Boelens, R.G.M. Bredius

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Prof.dr. A.H. Meijer

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.A.G.J. Orrit

This thesis focuses on using liposomes in two different treatment strategies; vaccination (or immunotherapy) and delivery of a small molecule, and in two different disease models; cancer and atherosclerosis.

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

Advanced sensing techniques require graphene with high quality and well-controlled surface chemistry.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

uman skin equivalents (HSEs) are in vitro 3D-skin models that mimic many aspects of the native human skin (NHS) and can be a valuable tool.

This article provides a list of the concepts and key elements that should be considered when creating effective communication messages.

In dit project wordt gekeken naar kinderen en hun relaties met leeftijdsgenoten. We willen daarbij graag meer te weten komen over het welzijn van kinderen en hoe dit gelinkt is aan onderwerpen zoals vriendschappen, angst en sociale vaardigheden. Door naar deze onderwerpen en hun samenspel te kijken,…

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: J-P. Amorij

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

Materials with strongly correlated electrons show some of the most mysterious and exotic phases of quantum matter, such as unconventional superconductivity, quantum criticality and strange metal phase.

Deze week verscheen 'Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis' van Peter Verstraten bij Amsterdam University Press, het vervolg op Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film uit 2016. Elk hoofdstuk in zijn 482 pagina's tellende nieuwe studie begint met een titel van Fons Rademakers…

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

Description of Triple bottom line approach for risk-benefit analysis of genetically modified crops.

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: R.J. Vreeken

This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

Promotor: A. Kros

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

Uncertainty and noise are frequently-encountered obstacles in real-world applications of numerical optimization. The practice of optimization that deals with uncertainties and noise is commonly referred to as robust optimization.

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

A common method to solve expensive function evaluation problem is using Bayesian Global Optimization, instead of Evolutionary Algorithms.

This thesis describes the design and development of subunit‐selective inhibitors of particular catalytically active subunits of human constitutive proteasomes and immunoproteasomes.

Lysosomal glycosidases are acid hydrolases that fragment glycoconjugates in lysosomes.

Metals surfaces form a group of effective catalysts for the reaction of small molecules such as hydrogen (H2).

The disease acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by fast progression and low survival rates.

Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

The Low Frequency Array enables studies of low-frequency carbon radio recombination lines with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral and spatial resolution.

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

Promotie

Cynthia van Vonno, politicoloog aan de Universiteit Leiden, verklaart in haar proefschrift waarom individuele parlementariers meestemmen met hun fractie.

Synthetic hydrogels that mimic the natural extracellular matrix in the biophysical and biochemical cues it provides to cells are in high demand, however the cell phenotypes as they are observed in vivo in numerous cases have yet to be attained.

Dr. Joris Larik, universitair docent vergelijkend, EU- en internationaal recht bij LUC The Hague, is coauteur van het rapport 'UN 2.0: Ten Innovations for Global Governance 75 Years beyond San Francisco'.

β-Lactamases are enzymes that can break down β-lactam substrates, such as antibiotics, preventing the use of these antibiotics for the treatment of various infectious diseases. However, some compounds, β-lactamase inhibitors, can block these enzymes allowing for possible treatments using a combination…

Streptomyces are filamentous bacteria that produce more than two-thirds of known antibiotics.

Een nieuw kabinet moet op korte termijn in drie specifieke regio’s snelle en vergaande maatregelen nemen om de stikstofuitstoot tegen te gaan. Zo komt er ruimte voor een lange-termijn-aanpak om andere urgente problemen aan te pakken en de knoop aan verplichtingen die de staat heeft te ontwarren. Dit…

World history is often framed in terms of flows of people and migration: humans coming ‘out of Africa’, the spread of farmers in the Holocene, Phoenician and Greek diasporas over the ancient Mediterranean, the colonization of the world by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Together with his Exeter…

This thesis discusses the discovery potential of Intensity Frontier experiments.