The master’s in East Asian Studies, a specialisation within the master's of Asian Studies, combines an exceptional range of courses with advanced language training and outstanding resources and expertise.

The master in Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory at Leiden University studies contemporary literature and culture (art, cinema, pop music) from a theoretical, critical perspective, with special emphases on approaches developed in cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, phenomenology and…

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On 26 and 27 September 2024 the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies hosted the ‘H2OLAW Conference: Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law’ at Leiden University. The conference marked the launch of a multi-year research project led by Dr. Hilde Woker and Dr. Jason…

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…

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goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded.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…

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.

The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…

We would all like to live in a world in which individuals feel safe, conflicts are resolved peacefully and the interests of future generations are taken into consideration. At Leiden University legal scholars investigate to what extent public international law meets the needs of a globalised society.…

An overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2021, as well as special appointments at Leiden University and other institutions.

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychology

On this page you will find an overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2024, as well as special appointments at Leiden University and other institutions.

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

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Errors are everywhere, and mechanical failures are especially common: buckled grain silos and cracked support columns are, justly, seen as an issue to be avoided.

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This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants⁠.

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The main goal of this thesis is to achieve advanced control of binding properties in bis-pyrrolic and macrocyclic pyrrolic receptors by light.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, L.D.J. Taelman

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Promotores: W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg, G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: M.G. Vijver

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

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.

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

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…

This dissertation is a collection of four research articles devoted to the study of Kummer theory for commutative algebraic groups.

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

The database research community has made tremendous strides in developing powerful database engines that allow for efficient analytical query processing.

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

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

Political scientist Luzia Helfer (Leiden University) empirically tested claims about media-politics relatiopns using unique data from experimental studies with elected politicians and political journalists in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: L. Juurlink

An experimental and microwear approach to Early Iron Age vessel biographies

Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

The thesis deals with the study of giant radio galaxies (GRGs), which are radio galaxies of megaparsec sizes.

This dissertation contains four works during my PhD. Different biomaterials have been designed based on coiled-coil peptides. These biomaterials have a range of applications, inclusing drug delivery, cell sorting to cell-cell fusion.

Over the past years it has been discovered that the population of extra-solar planets is large and diverse.