Tom de Groot werd tijdens zijn bachelor International Studies gegrepen door het thema vrede en veiligheid. Nu ontwerpt hij trainingen om professionals zich verder te laten ontwikkelen in het vakgebied.

In February 2017 our faculty newsletter included an announcement on lecturing in China. I immediately thought I should apply.

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

OB associations are loose groups of young, massive stars. They constitute the last stage of the massive starformation process, and the context in which new stars are formed.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: W.A. Kosters

Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is an ubiquitous part of oil refining that ensures that fuels are cleaned of impurities and environment release of pollutants such as SOx and NOx gasses are minimized.

With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.

The main object of study in this thesis is an Arakelov inequalitywhich bounds the degree of an invertible subsheaf of the direct image ofthe pluricanonical relative sheaf of a semistable family of curves.

Adenosine is an endogenous ligand which exerts its action by activating adenosine receptors (ARs), while its circulating levels are controlled via a variety of mechanism and proteins, amongst others the equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs).

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.

Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic disease caused by blood dwelling parasitic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, and it is classified as the second most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease, second only to malaria.

Deze week bestaat de bachelor International Studies tien jaar. Wat maakt de grootste opleiding van de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen zo bijzonder? (oud-)Medewerkers vertellen.

The class-imbalance problem is a challenging classification task and is frequently encountered in real-world applications. Various techniques have been developed to improve the imbalanced classification performance theoretically and practically.

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: G. A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: D. V. Filippov

The main subject of this thesis is the design and synthesis of paramagnetic molecules for protein studies with NMR and EPR spectroscopy.

This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work.

Joni Reef is universitair docent criminologie en research fellow bij de afdeling Criminologie aan de Universiteit van Leiden.

Ons onderwijsaanbod is breed en divers. Hieronder vindt u alle informatie over de vakken die door de afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen worden verzorgd. Als u op een vak klikt, wordt u doorgeleid naar de studiegids.

The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

Hoewel de officiële start van het academisch jaar nog even op zich laat wachten, verwelkomde het Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) deze week de Class of 2024 op de Campus aan het Anna van Bueren plein. Het nieuwe cohort van 203 studenten zal zich de komende drie jaar verdiepen in een scala aan…

Spectroscopic studies on fluorescent single molecules in organic condensed matter does not only provide information about the molecule itself, but also its near environment. By suppression of phonon-induced broadening of spectral lines through cooling to low temperatures, small changes in the spectral…

Onze alumna en bestuursvoorzitter Annetje Ottow vertelt over waarom ze Leiden heeft gekozen om te studeren, dat we als Rechtenfaculteit veel vooruitstrevender zijn dan veel mensen denken en hoeveel baat ze heeft bij haar studie als bestuursvoorzitter.

Why do sexual violence policies still fail to systematically address men and masculinities, when the need for cultural change among men has been central in public debates since #MeToo?

In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

Zoë van de Kerkhof is de stadsdichter van Leiden. Speciaal voor het 450-jarig bestaan van de universiteit schreef zij een gedicht.

We have studied shape with a particular focus on the zebrafish model system. The shape is an essential appearance of the phenotype of a biological specimen and it can be used to read out a current state or response or to study gene expression.

A tidal basin is an inland sea which is almost entirely enclosed by land and connected to the open sea by a tidal inlet. Through the tidal inlets interaction takes place between the tidal basin and the open sea.

The last decades it is increasingly recognized that acute as well as chronic postoperative pain is an important problem. Treatment and prevention of postoperative pain is a challenge, especially in special patient populations where there is only limited guidance on how to optimally use opioids.

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

This dissertation is an experimental study of laser-generated, atmospheric pressure, transient toroidal helium plasmas.

Childhood obesity is an increasing health issue. In the first part of this thesis comorbidities in children with obesity were studied, concerning the diagnostic process and dosing regimens.

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…

Freshwater is an important resource, but at a great risk of species decline due to habitat loss, pollution and over-exploitation, and invasive alien species.

A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

Aspergillus niger is an important industrial producer of organic acids and enzymes producing large amounts of spent fungal biomass.

De nieuwste opleiding van Universiteit Leiden heet Urban Studies. Hoe gaat dat, het opzetten van een compleet nieuwe studie? De bedenkers aan het woord.

Op 24 september promoveert Louise S. Friis. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Louise!

Ragazzi, ‘Suspect community or suspect category?‘, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

This book focuses on transnationalism as a key concept to evaluate how Europe responds to cross-border security challenges.

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…

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: S.J.T. van Noort