Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Prof.dr. M. van Heel

Examining if large scale application of new energy pathways can be constrained by materials and emissions.

Oekraïne staat op het punt kandidaat-lidstaat van de EU te worden, maar problemen met corruptie en de rechtsstaat kunnen de Europese integratieaspiraties elk moment dwarsbomen: zowel nu als op de lange weg naar het lidmaatschap.

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Farouk El-Hosseny will join the teaching staff as Visiting Assistant Professor of International Law.

Ter gelegenheid van het 400e jubileum van de eerste publicatie van 'De jure belli ac pacis' door Hugo Grotius in 1625, wordt een internationaal congres georganiseerd door Stichting Grotiana, het Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, het Grotius Centre for Legal Studies…

Op 12 september kwamen de studenten van de master European Law bijeen in de Lorentzzaal voor de feestelijke opening van hun programma.

Per 1 september volgt Pablo Pandocchi Thirza van 't Rood op als student-lid van het Instituutsbestuur het komend academisch jaar. Het IB is verantwoordelijk voor alle zaken die het instituut aangaan, van onderwijs tot onderzoek op het gebied van antropologie en sociologie. Tweedejaars student CADS Pablo…

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

Congres/symposium

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

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

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

Current therapies for patients with atherosclerosis are targeted primarily on reducing blood cholesterol, but this fails to prevent a large number of cardiovascular events.95 In order to identify new therapeutic strategies for treating atherosclerosis, it is important to study the interactions between…

Promotores:Th.J.C. van Berkel, M. van Eck

Make more fluid: In condensed matter systems, electrons can acquire unusual properties from their interaction with the atomic lattice.

The Minor Computational Approaches to Disease, Signaling and Drug Targets (CADSDT) is focused on fundamental scientific research required for discovery of new drug targets and development of new drugs.

Alumni-activiteit, New York

Een apotheker adviseert patiënten en medezorgverleners over optimale farmaceutische patiëntenzorg. Bij de master Farmacie in Leiden leer je dit zowel in de praktijk tijdens de coschappen als binnen het cursorisch onderwijs op de universiteit.

Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

The overarching clinical aim of this thesis was to improve pharmacological pain management by characterizing the pharmacodynamics of analgesics. This promotion has been awarded the predicate cum laude.

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, J. Neefjes, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

In order to be able to develop effective medicine and treatments to prevent or cure autoimmune diseases or cancer we need to understand the mechanisms how they arise and what drives their course.Unravelling the fundamental molecular mechanisms influencing the onset and course of diseases such as allergies,…

Nieuwscheckers, een team van journalistieke factcheckers van de Universiteit Leiden, ontving tijdens de opening van het academisch jaar op 5 september de Mr. K.J. Cathprijs. Deze prijs wordt elke twee jaar uitgereikt aan medewerkers of studenten die een positieve bijdrage leveren aan de naam van de…

Alumni-activiteit, Alumni Association of Archaeology presents:

Promotor: R. Cramer

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

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

BrainTrain verbindt wetenschappers met jongeren. Dit realiseren we door een platform aan te bieden waar wetenschappers leren van de ervaringen van jongeren, en waar jongeren alles over hun eigen (brein)ontwikkeling kunnen ontdekken. We organiseren jongerenpanels en creëren korte podcasts waarin zowel…

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

Digitale data zijn overal, maar hoe erg is dat? Universitair docent Alexander Pleijter wijst op NEMO Kennislink op een aantal voordelen van de digitalisering van de samenleving.

De afdeling eLaw van de Universiteit Leiden is toonaangevend in Europa in onderzoek naar het snijvlak tussen recht en digitale technologieën.

Het Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) opereert binnen de internationaal georiënteerde wetenschappelijke richting security studies en houdt zich bezig met multidisciplinair onderzoek en onderwijs.

Van levensredders tot moderne Frankensteins. De klassieke vraag hoe ver wetenschappers mogen gaan komt telkens terug op 'toekomstcongres' Brave New World op 2 en 3 november. Wetenschappers en kunstenaars presenteren hun gedroomde technologieën en debatteren waar de grens moet liggen.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a major health threat. Addressing this challenge requires among others the development of new antibacterial compounds. The research described in this thesis focuses on discovering novel antibiotics from soil bacteria, specifically Streptomyces and Paenibacillus.Despite…

Als bachelorstudent Bio-Farmaceutische Wetenschappen schreef ze het onderzoeksvoorstel dat ze in haar master mocht uitvoeren. Femke Vlaswinkel studeerde vervolgens cum laude af. Haar onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Scientific Reports, ze won een prijs van de Nederlanse…

The RNA guided endonuclease based on the CRISPR/Cas system of Streptococcus pyogenus is a potent new tool for genome engineering in plants.

Water is all around us and is vital for all aspects of life. Studying the various compounds and life forms that inhabit natural waters lets us better understand the world around us.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams

This thesis has described novel synthetic methods to produce a variety of (glyco)peptides and their application in the study of various immunological processes.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

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.

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.