Utrecht University will be hosting the 17th International Congress of Celtic Studies in July 2023. The organizing committee invites all who are interested in sharing and discussing the results of their research in any area of Celtic Studies to submit a proposal for a 20-minute paper, a 90-minute themed…

De Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit Leiden wil haar onderwijs op het gebied van de islam vernieuwen en verbreden. Dit betekent dat aandacht voor islamonderwijs blijft bestaan. Maar de zelfstandige bacheloropleiding Islamstudies wordt vanaf collegejaar 2014-2015 niet meer aangeboden…

The programme for the Medieval Studies' Day (4 November, Amsterdam) is now available online!

Dit boek is een Festschrift ter ere van Sven Vleeming met bijdragen van 38 vrienden en collega’s, onder wie bekende specialisten binnen hun respectievelijke vakgebieden.

Join-in courses zijn MA-cursussen over middeleeuwse onderwerpen gegeven binnen vastgestelde MA-programma's van de zes deelnemende universiteiten van de Onderzoekschool. Op aanvraag zijn deze vakken toegankelijk voor studenten van andere (Nederlandse) universiteiten. De cursusbelasting en het aantal…

Op 9 september 2009 viert de opleiding Life Science and Technology (LS&T) haar tienjarig bestaan.

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In this study the flows of PVC and its additives through the Swedish Society were followed from the cradle to the grave (from production to waste treatment).

Het was 14 oktober weer een drukte van jewelste in de zonovergoten binnenstad van Leiden. Enkele duizenden scholieren en hun ouders bezochten de Open Dag. Bij de informatiemarkt in de Pieterskerk spraken we enkele studiekiezers met elk hun eigen vragen, twijfels en overwegingen.

Radboud Ancient and Medieval Studies organiseert ook dit jaar een lezingenreeks. Het programma voor het eerste semester is hieronder te vinden.

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

Abstract submission is now open for the international conference of the ELS Academy, in Amsterdam on September 1 and 2.

The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

Sinds kort bestaat het Leiden University Buddhist Studies Network, opgericht bij het LIAS, het Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Ruim 10.000 scholieren en ouders bezochten op 25 februari de Open Dag van Universiteit Leiden. Op verschillende locaties in de stad kregen de studiekiezers informatie over de opleidingen in Leiden en Den Haag. ‘Ik ben benieuwd naar de ervaringen van studenten.’

The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announces the summer session focused on the study of Medieval Greek, from June 26 to July 27, 2023. The Library invites applications for a month-long Summer Session for Medieval Greek at the Intermediate to Advanced Level. The…

Onder deze noemer vond op 8, 9 en 10 maart jl. in Hanoi (Vietnam) de slotconferentie van het ANRC programma plaats.

On Friday, 29 October 2021 (15.15-17.00), this year’s lecture will be delivered by Prof. Howard Louthan, (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) at the Faculty Club of Leiden University. It will be titled ‘Revisiting a Renaissance Classic: Theuerdank, Maximilian I (1486-1519) and the Discovery of…

This thesis describes the structural and biochemical characterization of the β-lactamase BlaC from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and the Alr and YlmE proteins from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).Mtb is the main cause of tuberculosis.

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

Investigating epistemic and ethical practices in medical experimentation on humans in the colonial period in Southeast Asia.

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

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

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

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

This PhD research sets out to unravel and explain the socio-structural and cultural impacts of oil-industrialization on the local Bakhtiari community in general and the industrial laborers it provided in specific.

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

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

You are invited to sign in for the Tabula Gratulatoria for a volume that has been composed for the occasion of Prof. Dr Marc Boone’s retirement.

Hoe definiëren we het werk van een filmregisseur wiens films vele vastgestelde grenzen tegelijk overschrijdt?