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Psycholoog Daphne Tona heeft als een van de eersten bij levende vrijwilligers 'in vivo' onderzoek gedaan naar een kleine kern in de hersenstam. Deze kern is betrokken bij cognitieve functies en neurologische en psychiatrische aandoeningen. Met haar onderzoek brengt Tona onze hersenen verder in kaart.…

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Debat, Rondetafel

De ontvangers van de NWO-Spinozapremie 2017, de hoogste wetenschappelijke onderscheiding van Nederland, introduceren ieder een groot onderzoekstalent. Wie zijn de toponderzoekers van straks, en wat zijn hun dromen? Topper Eveline Crone tipt talent Lara Wierenga.

Psychologe Eveline Crone en criminologe Marieke Liem zijn in de race voor de verkiezing New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2015. Bekijk nieuwe filmpjes over hun werk. De publieksstemmen en de mening van de jury wegen even zwaar mee in het finale oordeel.

Wat doen beelden tijdens het verhoor met de verhoorders en verdachten? Dat onderzoeken de Leidse psycholoog Lotte van Dillen en twee Rotterdamse criminologen met een subsidie van Politie & Wetenschap. Van Dillen: 'We gaan een verhoor 'naspelen' in het lab.' Op 5 april verzorgen de wetenschappers een…

Ontwikkelingssychologe Anna van Duijvenvoorde heeft een subsidie in het Open Research Area programma in de wacht gesleept. Met deze ORA Grant werken diverse onderzoekers internationaal samen om het verband aan te tonen tussen de ontwikkeling van het puberbrein en sociaal leren.

Debat

Students Practicing Citizen Journalism

How were the Russians, under early modern conditions, able to incorporate this distant, undeveloped and, because frequent nomadic attacks, dangerous territory? And what role did the Kolyvan-Voskresensk plants play in this process?

Describe and identify what dosimetry parameters are of importance to interpret dose-response relationships (eg., mortality, sub-lethal, growth or reproduction inhabitation, DNA damage and reactive oxygen species, etc. ) for metal-based nanoparticles? How to develop quantitative models that enable to…

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

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

This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

Tijdens deze studie volg je colleges, oefen je met wiskundige afleidingen en voer je experimenten uit. Hierdoor bouw je een stevige basis in verschillende vakgebieden, zoals natuurkunde en wiskunde.

eLaw onderzoekt de rol van het recht in de informatiemaatschappij: hoe kan het recht bijdragen aan een goede werking van informatie- en communicatietechnologie, en het gebruik ervan door burgers, bedrijven en overheden?

Hoe kan de techniek van cell wall engineering worden ingezet zodat de industrie streptomyceten beter kunnen verwerken tot nieuwe antibiotica?

Cardiovascular diseases are among the most frequent causes of death in the world. The main underlying pathology of cardiovascular diseases is the development of atherosclerosis in the medium and large-sized arteries.

Quantum hardware comes with a different computing paradigm and new ways to tackle applications. Much effort has to be put into understanding how to leverage this technology to give real-world advantages in areas of interest for industries such as combinatorial optimization or machine learning.

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

The adenosine receptors are proteins that reside in the extracellular membranes of cells. Activation of adenosine receptors plays a role in many physiological and pathological processes, such as immune responses and cancers.

De nieuwste inzichten in de ontwikkeling van gedrag en de bijbehorende hersenmechanismen staan in het cahier ‘Brein in de Groei’ van Biowetenschap & Maatschappij. Wetenschappers en jeugdprofessionals vanuit heel Nederland leveren een bijdrage, onder wie 11 wetenschappers van de Universiteit Leiden.…

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

Promotores: Bas Edixhoven, Guy Henniart

To contribute to the body of knowledge aiming at a better coverage of ecosystem service assessment in LCA studies, this thesis dives into the challenges of incorporating existing ecosystem service methods within the impact assessment phase of the conventional LCA framework.

This thesis is a collection of experimental attempts to enhance photoluminescence of fluorescent molecules and quantum dots with single gold nanorods (GNRs) and relevant applications.

How can we develop and further improve life cycle impact assessment methods, characterisation factors and normalisation factors?

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier

A new environmental accounting framework using externality data and input-output tools for policy analysis.

The ReCiPe methodology for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA).

The LOFAR radio telescope produces petabytes of data every year. Radio Astronomers use complex multi-step pipelines to process this data and produce scientific images.

Immunotherapies for cancer are an emerging class of therapeutic strategies which aim to treat cancer via augmentation of the immune system.

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

The thesis describes terrestrial field trials aimed to detect side-effects of pesticides within the framework of pesticide registration procedures. Field trials were developed using vascular plants Brassica napus and Poa annua, caterpillars Pieris brassicae and effects on decomposition were studied…

Kunnen we van quantum-verrassingen quantum toepassingen maken? Kunnen we het leven onderzoeken en opbouwen vanuit de nano-schaal?

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.