In September 2023 the new minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food starts. This minor critically examines the complexities of food sustainability through ecological, socio-economic, political, and cultural systems.

The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

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,…

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…

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…

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

Alumni-activiteit, Alumni Association of Archaeology presents:

Promotor: R. Cramer

From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy.

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

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.

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

In this PhD-thesis several new and existing data science application are described that are particularly focused on applications for tax administrations.

This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

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…

The growing demand of energy indicates that global energy resources in the form of fossil fuels will not be sufficient in the future. In order to solve potential future energy problems development of a sustainable hydrogen economy is highly desirable.

Inclusieve leiders dragen bij tot organisaties waar individuen zich welkom voelen en waar ze zichzelf kunnen zijn.

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.

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Is er sprake van een tanende legitimiteit van het recht en bestuur in een veellagige rechtsorde en welke betekenis heeft (afnemende) legitimiteit voor de effectiviteit van het recht?

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams

A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.

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.

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

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.

In this thesis, we extend the concept of null models as canonical ensembles of multi-graphs with given constraints and present new metrics able to characterize real-world layered systems based on their correlation patterns.

Promotor: C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, Co-promotor: Sandra de Weert

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.

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.

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

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: Y.H. Choi

This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…

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.

Social media gebruiken we dagelijks om te kletsen, te winkelen en ideeën uit te wisselen, maar omdat ze in handen zijn van 'Big Tech', onttrekken ze zich goeddeels aan toezicht. Een aantal experts, waaronder docent Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media Peter Burger, praten bij NRC over hoe we social media weer…

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…

Moritz Jesse has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In his MIND-EU Project he will focus on a coherent way to teach Migration, Integration, and Non-Discrimination at Leiden Law School at bachelor and master level.

In aanloop naar de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen heeft het Leidse initiatief Nieuwscheckers in samenwerking met televisieprogramma Pointer en persbureau ANP een factcheckmarathon georganiseerd. Op ANP wordt uitgelegd hoe deze in zijn werk ging.

Lees hier de laatste (pers)berichten en zie hoe de Leiden Science Run in de media verscheen.

Coronavirus, online, zorgpersoneel, klimaatcrisis: een paar van de 118 nieuwe woorden die in de jaarlijkse toespraak van de Koning op Prinsjesdag voor het eerst zijn uitgesproken. Hoogleraar Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media Jaap de Jong nam samen met het team van KRO Pointer de troonrede door.

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