The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

Promotor: Peter Stevenhagen

The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.

There are many interpretations of quantum mechanics, and ultimately experiments are needed to verify or falsify these interpretations.

The major and ultimate aim of metabolomics is to obtain an answer to a specific biological or clinical question.

The goal of the project is the development of stream mining techniques for complex patterns such as graphs. We will try to extend the existing state-of-the-art techniques into two, orthogonal directions: on the one hand, the mining of more complex patterns in streams, such as sequential patterns and…

In this thesis we explore machine and deep learning approaches that address keychallenges in high dimensional problem areas and also in improving accuracy in wellknown problems. In high dimensional contexts, we have focused on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.

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

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

The solar system was formed approximately 4.56 billion years ago. Despite the numerous theories that have been developed over the years, the formation and evolution of the solar system still remain unclear.

Pharmaceutical companies, governments and the general public have become increasingly aware that animal models used in drug testing lack vital aspects to serve as an accurate representation of human biology. As models of the human body should become more physiologically relevant, animal models no longer…

Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.

Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.

This dissertation presents the results of the importance of creativity for ICT-students of Dutch universities of applied sciences (in Dutch: hogescholen), and the functioning of training courses that aim to promote creative abilities is highlighted.

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

Cardiovascular diseases are the primary cause of death in the world with atherosclerosis as primary underlying cause.

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

The redox-conversion reaction of metal-disulfide and metal-thiolate complexes are important, as they may shed light on electron-transfer reactions that often occur in Nature.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-Promotor: L.W. Chatrou

The sequence-dependence of biomolecular interactions involving nucleic acids and proteins is essential for numerous processes inside the cell. Insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms have been obtained using various biochemical and biophysical methods on two different levels — bulk and sin…

Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria that have a complex multicellular life cycle and are well known for their ability to produce a wide range of bioactive natural products (NPs).

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…

An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.W.M. Frenken

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

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.

To improve cancer treatments, personalized medicine approaches have aimed to identify exactly which mutations are driving tumor development in a given patient and specifically target these mutations using precision therapies.

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

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

Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

We have conducted a full spectral line survey of the 3-13 micron region of two massive protostars, AFGL 2591 and AFGL 2136, for the first time at high spectral resolution.

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Studievoorlichting

Lezing

Geesteswetenschappen, Centre for the Arts in Society

Negentien studenten die excellente resultaten behaalden tijdens de minor Intelligence Studies ontvingen dit jaar de Kluitersprijs.

Cursus, Training

De oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne speelt niet alleen fysiek maar ook digitaal. Van Den Berg, Hoogleraar Cybersecurity Governance aan de FGGA, vertelde erover bij meerdere nieuwsoutlets.

Als chemicus, voormalig wetenschapsjournalist en nu als docent wetenschapscommunicatie raakte ik geïntrigeerd door de brand bij Chem-Pack in Moerdijk. Feiten werden niet of slechts sporadisch gecommuniceerd. Allerlei indianenverhalen bereikten wel het publiek, mede door het optreden van minister Opstelten…

Op donderdag 29 oktober organiseert Kennis Maken Den Haag de derde editie van Den Haag Draait Door. In deze online talkshow gaan experts en beleidsmakers in gesprek over problemen die spelen in de stad Den Haag. Ook bij deze editie zijn studenten, onderzoekers en inwoners uit de regio van harte welk…

Het Algemeen Dagblad besteedt aandacht aan een college van hoogleraar Informatica en Recht Jaap van den Herik voor de Universiteit van Nederland, waarin hij betoogt dat computers in de toekomst prima zouden kunnen rechtspreken.

Bibi van den Berg, Hoogleraar Cybersecurity Governance, verscheen afgelopen week verschillende keren in het nieuws over de internationale ransomeware-aanval en de impact daarvan.

KPN heeft op 12 maart de zesde editie van de European Cyber Security Perspectives gepubliceerd. Sergei Boeke, onderzoeker aan het Insitute of Security and Global Affairs, heeft hierin een artikel geschreven over Cyber Warfare.

Bibi van den Berg, hoogleraar Cybersecurity Governance aan het institute of Security and Global Affairs, praat over de verantwoordelijkheden na incidenten omtrent cybersecurity.

Caspar van den Berg praat bij Radio 1 over zijn zorgen om de kloof tussen stad en de landelijke randgemeenten.

De voorspelling van Jaap van den Herik, directeur van het Leiden Centre of Data Science, is uitgekomen: Google-computer AlpaGo heeft de wereldkampioen Go verslagen met 4-1. In interviews met de Volkskrant en BNR Nieuwsradio vertelt Van den Herik over het toernooi én over de volgende uitdaging: het spel…