Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

Early time-resolved experiments by Frauenfelder on the ensemble of the kinetic rebinding of CO to myoglobin molecules resulted in a stretched exponential relaxa-tion due to a very large spread of the reaction rates of individual molecules.

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

New PhD opportunities in Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies, a collaboration between the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Deadline for application: 31 March 2025.

A series of workshops at Leiden University and the University of Hamburg will act as a forum in which international legal scholars whose research adopts a behavioural approach can present their works-in-progress and gain feedback from a broad range of peers, including scholars in economics and cognitive…

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

Viral diseases constitute one of the major challenges in modern medicine. Membrane-targeting have broad-spectrum potential and could distinguish viral membranes from the host cell plasma membrane by the difference in membrane curvature.

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, which holds the potential to simulate complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical numerical methods.Despite recent formidable advancements in quantum hardware, constructing a quantum computer capable of performing useful calculations remains challenging.In…

The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.

In this thesis we will explore the use of fuzzy systems theory for applications in bioinformatics.

A dense region of a gaseous and dusty cloud collapses to form a protostar surrounded by a disk and an envelope. This thesis uses both observations and models to study physical and chemical conditions of these protostellar systems which are likely where planets start to form.

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

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

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. J. de Vries

Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.

Sustainable energy from wind and solar is most readily available near the sea.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

Lysosomal acid glucosylceramidase (GBA1) is a lysosomal enzyme that degrades glucolipids with its main substrate being glucosylceramide (GlcCer). Defects in the GBA1 gene lead to glycosphingolipidosis Gaucher disease (GD), in which the hydrolysis of GlcCer is impaired and therefore, it accumulates in…

De onderzoeksgroep Business, Technology & Public Policy van de afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen van Universiteit leiden houdt zich bezig met het onderzoeken van de dynamische wisselwerking tussen ‘nieuwe’ technologieën en de verschillende belanghebbenden die hiermee interacteren, waaronder consumenten,…

De Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) heeft een Russische hackoperatie voorkomen op de Organisatie voor het Verbod op Chemische Wapens (OPCW) in Den Haag. Wetenschappers Paul Abels, Willemijn Aerdts, Constant Hijzen en Sergei Boeke van het Institute of Security and Global Affairs reageerden…

Lezing

This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

Terrorisme, crisis, geweld, inlichtingen, diplomatie, oorlog en vrede zijn onderwerpen die breed aan bod komen in de onderzoeksactiviteiten van ISGA. Regelmatig verschijnen ISGA-onderzoekers in internationale media om hun onderzoeksexpertise te bespreken. Dit item biedt een overzicht van niet-Nederlandse…

Op een regenachtige avond een horrorfilm aanzetten. Wie vindt dat nou niet heerlijk? Gelukkig is het maar fictie – of niet? Volgens universitair docent Evert Jan van Leeuwen zegt moderne horror meer over onze samenleving dan wij denken. Hij is voor zijn onderzoek naar spullenverslaving in horror genomineerd…

Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

How do you engage society to stop biodiversity loss? How do you create political and social involvement to deal with climate change? And how do you balance the economic needs of industry with the negative effects of pollution? If you find these kinds of questions interesting, then this Pre-University…

De Braziliaanse president Jair Bolsonaro noemde COVID-19

Congres/symposium, Workshop on the occasion of the bestowing of an honorary doctorate in Oriental Manuscript Studies on Beatrice Gruendler.

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

The work described in this Thesis is focused on the assembly of oligosaccharide fragments derived from a fungal polysaccharide, galactosaminogalactan (GAG) and fragments of the exopolysaccharide Pel, generated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management

This multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.

Weekly Workshop

Aim: To develop and enable application of a practical, flexible, user-friendly platform to provide the scientific community with a tool to generate land surface products and its associated uncertainties and exploit these for data-intensive science.

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…