What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

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

Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.

By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

Radiography is an important technique to inspect objects, with applications in airports and hospitals. X-ray imaging is also essential in industry, for instance in food safety checks for the presence of foreign objects.

Op 13 oktober 2021 verdedigde Ross Spence het proefschrift 'Collateral Transactions and Shadow Banking'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. M. Haentjens en prof.dr. A.M. Pacces (UvA).

Op 9 september 2009 viert de opleiding Life Science and Technology (LS&T) haar tienjarig bestaan.

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…

Religious Studies at Leiden University allows you to study a broad spectrum of religions and their manifestations.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Portegies Zwart

Netherlands Statistics (CBS), Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam have started a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Enriching official economic statistics using data-driven modelling techniques'.

Given the accelerating appearance of antimicrobial resistance, there is an urgent need for more fundamental research into novel antibiotic strategies. The work in this thesis helps to address this global problem by developing new antibiotic compounds, inspired by the antibacterial mechanisms of the…

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

Hieronder kun je een antwoord vinden op de meestgestelde vragen over de master. Wordt jouw vraag niet beantwoord? Neem gerust contact met ons op voor een gepersonaliseerd antwoord via: masterhas@lumc.nl.

In this project of the Center for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) ongoing research is conducted on the history of advice to Dutch central government by so-called State committees from 1814 to 2014. State committees have been installed by Dutch central government since 1814 to provide expert advice, research…

A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

Grensverleggend geschiedenis leren.

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

In the Schouwburgstraat, LUGO is currently redesigning the back-garden in order to increase biodiversity and make it a more beautiful space. Throughout October 2023 until March 2024, we will be making changes to the garden with our team of volunteers.

The role of material production as a driver of environmental impacts is increasing, which calls for a better understanding of global material flows. This thesis explores the role of in-use stocks of products, buildings and infrastructure as a key driver of global material demand and discusses the implications…

Leiden is een echte studentenstad. Meld je aan voor een studievereniging of studentenvereniging om van jouw studietijd een onvergetelijke tijd te maken!

Lezing, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

IIAS bevordert kritisch, humanistisch en collaboratief werk over, met, in en buiten Azië.

Op 1 en 2 december vond in Utrecht een internationale workshop plaats over ‘Institutional and Socio-Political Determinants of Judicial Independence in Latin America”. Het tweedaagse evenement was georganiseerd door de Universiteit Utrecht en de Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity (prof. dr.…

The Economics and Governance specialisation of the Master in Public Administration teaches you to formulate problem-solving approaches to concrete policy issues found at the intersection between economics and public administration. This specialisation is a unique joint offering of the Department of…

Het Leids Academisch Kunstcentrum biedt verschillende schrijfcursussen aan. Maak kennis met de wereld van verhalen verzinnen. Of kies het verhaal dat je aan de vergetelheid wil onttrekken. Leer als schrijver je eigen stem vinden en zet de eerste belangrijke stap van een idee naar een verhaal. Of maak…

BioSolar Cells is a five-year research project in which ten knowledge institutions and 45 private industries work together.

De kwaliteit van de zorg voor onze ouderen kunnen we verbeteren. Met oog voor de biologische, sociale en management aspecten biedt deze master belangrijke inzichten voor verbeteringen. De master Health, Ageing and Society zet je aan het denken, zet je aan het werk en geeft richting aan je carrière.

In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.