PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

Life cycle assessment (LCA) reveals the total environmental impact of products or production processes, and EU rules are going to make this even more important.

My artistic practice deals with documents and, more specifically, with the use and the exploration of their narrative potential.

Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml

For thousands of years, societies have fallen under the reign of a single leader, ruling as chief, king, or emperor. In this fascinating global history of medieval and early modern dynastic power, Jeroen Duindam charts the rise and fall of dynasties, the rituals of rulership, and the contested presence…

Striga hermonthica, commonly known as witchweed, infests major cereal crops in Sub-Saharan Africa causing severe yield losses and threatening the livelihood of millions of resource poor farmers.

At Leiden University, students with enquiring minds are encouraged to take on an extra challenge alongside their regular studies. Master Honours Classes & Challenges are small-scale, interdisciplinary courses that revolve around tackling a complex issue for society or a partner organisation.

Kuba funerary art from the Congo River Basin

Leiden University is established in two cities: Leiden and The Hague.

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.

Welcome to StatiCS: the Statistical Consultation Service. The goal of the service is to provide statistical support to PhD candidates and other researchers.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

The research programme Industrial Ecology aims to support the ecological transformation of society and environment towards sustainability. The research subject is Industrial Ecology in its broadest definition, covering environmental systems analysis, and incorporating the social and economic aspects…

What are the circadian disturbances underlying depression vulnerability? How are they related to mood, cognition and sleep ?

How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?

Industrial Ecology

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

Bacteria are highly complex and diverse organisms that have adapted to survive in ecological niches ranging from the most extreme to the most heterogeneous environments.

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are the most abundant biological entity in nature. They shape bacterial communities and are a major driving force in bacterial evolution.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

How do mycobacteria subvert the defenses of host immune cells?

Leiden Law School has a methods portal that offers an overview of the various phases of empirical legal research.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

On 20 January 2022, Marco Stam defended the thesis 'Essays on Welfare Benefits, Employment, and Crime'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. M.G. Knoef.

This work is dedicated to interpreting in cohomological terms the special values of zeta functions of arithmetic schemes.

On 13 October 2021 Ross Spence defended the thesis 'Collateral Transactions and Shadow Banking'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. M. Haentjens and Prof. A.M. Pacces (UvA).

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Leiden is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life.

Leiden is a lively university city, brimming with history and boasting a student life that’s tangible just about everywhere.

Researchers need to work in specialized environments when they work with dangerous bacteria and viruses. These microbes spread easily, so only in labs with a high biosafety levels they can be studied. Unfortunately, to look at the microbes properly, expensive microscopes are needed that are not always…

The SNP genotyping line offers flexible genotyping for small and large projects at affordable price and high quality. The use as SNPs as molecular markers is very versatile and can be used for a wide variety of scientific questions ranging from paternity analysis, conservatuion genetis towards QTL…

Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)

Transplantation of labial salivary glands to the eyelids for patients with dry eye appears to give excellent results clinically.

Biodiversity and trade: mitigating the impacts of non-food biomass global supply chains.

From filtering UV light in sun cream to preventing perspiration odour in socks and sterilising fridges and washing machines. The use of nanoparticles in products is increasing. But what is the impact of these miniscule particles on the environment?

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Sara Brandellero, Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies (LUCAS), is a founding member of the newly launched European Network of Brazilianists working in Cultural Analysis/Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural – REBRAC. Network launched at international conference at the University of…

Uniting an international consortium of scholars, the Skandapurāṇa Project comprises a team of researchers working in fields across the Humanities. We are creating a critical edition of a foundational work of purāṇic literature and, in doing so, tracing the dynamics of a textual tradition to better understand…

PhD defence

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.

What is the population size/structure and distribution of tiger and leopard inside the Bardia National Park (BNP) compared with the population outside? What is the movement and home range and conflict pattern in time and space of tigers and leopards inside the BNP compared with outside? What constitutes…

When do fire making tools appear in prehistory, and how might the use of these tools manifest in the archaeological record?

Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series