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The main task of the Board of Examiners is to determine whether a student meets the conditions set by the Honours Academy's Education Regulations with regard to the knowledge, insight and skills of the relevant honours programme. The Board of Examiners has to determine this in an objective manner.

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On 11 October, the roundtable on ‘Academic Freedom – Theoretical Perspectives’ took place at the Academy Building, Leiden. It was organized in the framework of the Vidi research project The EU fundamental right to 'freedom of the art and sciences': exploring the limits on the commercialisation of academia…

From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…

Are predictive archaeological maps a reliable tool to play an important role in the spatial planning? One of the goals of this project was to develop best practices for the production and application of the models.

By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character, and ambition of Muslim state competency at…

This 862-page monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal.

This thesis is about cosmological inflation and its relation to observations.

University Library, Witte Singel 27, 2311 BG, Leiden

A structural investigation of coiled coil peptides used as membrane fusogens, mimicing naturally occuring coiled-coil fusion proteins. Synthetic modifications have been made to alter lipid attachment, secondary structure and to insert photoactive azobenzene moieties for active control over coiled coil…

Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016

In this thesis, we focus on novel proteins/mechanisms that regulate integrin-adhesion mediated mechano-transduction.

Gravensteen, Pieterskerkhof 6, 2311 SR, Leiden

In this thesis, I studied the origin and evolution of the non-thermal radiation in merging galaxy clusters.

LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

This thesis describes the importance of being able to control the selectivity of potential drug candidates.

The Second World War took the lives of at least 663 students, staff and alumni of Leiden University. They were killed in raids, deported to concentration camps or, out of desperation, took their own lives.

Old Observatory, Sterrenwachtlaan 11, 2311 GW, Leiden

Yuxi Nie defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.

This dissertation addresses the position of artistic research within academia.

The goal of the LIACS Media Lab (LML) at Leiden University is to conduct state-of-the-art research in the areas of deep learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision.

Political and social implications of life in a digital age.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven Co-promotor: L. van Geemen, P. Parent

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.

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, F. Andreatta

An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record

We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

Are you in the final stage of your bachelor or master program? And do you want to research a topic that has to do with sustainability? Then, this document is the right one for you. In this document, several sustainability related topics from a variety of studies is coming together which can give you…

The Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law edited by prof. Janice Bellace of the University of Pennsylvania and ass. prof. Beryl ter Haar of Leiden University. The book is publisehd in Edward Elgars series on Human Rights.

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

Joris Larik, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, wrote about the topics of the Brexit, the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, and Global Treaty (Re-)Negotiations.

As part of LUGO’s focus on responsible recycling of e-waste (electronic waste) we participated in the Funky Phone Challenge.

Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia is the annual journal of the Faculty of Archaeology (formerly the Institute of Prehistory), Leiden University.

Triplet superconductivity refers to a condensate of equal-spin Cooper pairs (pairs of electrons with equal spin).

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-Promotor: J.D.C. Codée

This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…

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

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

On 20 October 2021 Michael Ramsden defended the thesis 'The Role of the United Nations General Assembly in Advancing Accountability for Atrocity Crimes: Legal Powers and Effects'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.M. Blokker.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx & Prof.dr. P.G. van Dokkum (Yale University)

Promotor: Erik F. Smets, Co-promotores: Barbara Gravendeel, Niels Raes

Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.