Promotores: S.F. Portegies Zwart, E. M. Rossi

The thesis is about the study of shell evolution of the Hydrocenidae of the genus Georissa. This thesis started with a general overview on the evolutionary process of animals due to ecological changes.

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How can ecosystem services within river catchments be quantified in spatial and temporal explicit way?

Politicologie is een brede studie met veel diepgang. Je bestudeert politieke vraagstukken op lokaal, nationaal en internationaal niveau, vanuit verschillende invalshoeken.

The research profile ‘Asian Modernities and Traditions’ (AMT) aims to raise the strength and visibility of research, teaching and dissemination of Asian studies at Leiden University.

Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

Donderdag 1 december 2016 is Francisco Sepulveda Ramirez gepromoveerd op zijn proefschrift 'Residence in Tax Treaties'. Zijn promotor was hoogleraar Belastingrecht Frank Engelen.

Brightspace is de digitale leeromgeving van de Universiteit Leiden vanaf collegejaar 2020/2021. Brightspace vervangt Blackboard. Het is gebruikersvriendelijk en biedt veel mogelijkheden voor het onderwijs in de toekomst.

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra, Jr., Co-promotor: B. de Smit

Kidney transplantation is a major advance of modern medicine. This course will give you state of the art updates about what used to be an experimental, risky, and very limited treatment option more than 50 years ago and is now routinely performed in many countries worldwide.

Around the world, mindfulness has become big business. This course combines conventional scholarly inquiry from multiple disciplines with experiential learning to provide a responsible, comprehensive, and inclusive education about mindfulness as a contemporary phenomenon.

In this course, you will learn about sustainability and staying with the environmental boundaries of our planet. You will gain an understanding of the effects of growing affluence and population growth, the key challenges we are facing, and ways to influence your direct environment.

This course provides an insider perspective into the work of international criminal courts and tribunals. You will learn about the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in The Hague.

Economic Anthropologist Erik Bähre talks on the Dutch News Radio Channel BNR about the effects of the Russia-Ukraine grain agreement for African countries.

Bonbons kopen als een teken van liefde, de beste deals inslaan tijdens Black Friday en een griezelig kostuum aantrekken voor Halloween. In de afgelopen jaren hebben deze feestdagen en tradities een enorme vlucht in Nederland genomen, terwijl hun oorsprong aan de andere kant van de oceaan ligt. Waarom…

Van woensdag 29 tot en met vrijdag 31 oktober brengen koning Willem-Alexander en koningin Máxima een staatsbezoek aan Japan. “Een bijzondere aangelegenheid,” legt Kasia Cwiertka, hoogleraar Modern Japan, uit. “Niet alleen omdat we dat waarschijnlijk maar één keer gaan meemaken, maar ook omdat het een…

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Het beëindigen van het zevenenveertig jarige lidmaatschap van het Verenigd Koninkrijk (VK) met de Europese Unie (EU) heeft de relaties tussen de twee fundamenteel veranderd. Na jaren van tumultueuze onderhandelingen bepaalt internationaal recht nu weer de VK’s relatie met de EU. Dit heeft geresulteerd…

Progressieve mannen vóelen nog niet echt wat ze prediken, ziet Daan Scheepers, hoogleraar sociale psychologie. Dat blijkt nu ook uit onderzoek. Lees de opinie van Scheepers in Trouw over werkcultuur.

Public Administration is a major refereed journal publishing articles on public administration, public policy and public management.

During the summer, we organize a summer school for researchers who want to learn about communicating science to diverse audiences. The summer school is aimed at PhD students, postdocs and other early career researchers. The Summer School is open for all disciplines in science, including social sciences,…

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Op 18 september 2019 verdedigde Huw Llewellyn zijn proefschrift 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.M. Blokker en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

Hoe kan de methode om de gecombineerde effecten van metaal-gebaseerde chemische stoffetn te bepalen worden verbeterd?

What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?

Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are a group of orphan diseases characterized by lysosomal dysfunction or impaired lysosomal catabolism and affect collectively about 1 in 5000 live births.

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Prof.dr. A.H. Meijer

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Plants and soils from natural ecosystems harbor great diversity of soil microorganisms, which could potentially contribute to the sustainability of horticulture. The knowledge about using wild plant species and soil from natural ecosystem to improve the crop health will advance the application of ecological…

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.

Interactive exploration of large volumes of data is increasingly common, as data scientists attempt to extract interesting information from large opaque data sets. This scenario presents a difficult challenge for traditional database systems, as (1) nothing is known about the query workload in advance,…

Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…

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Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: K.J. Batenburg

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga…

Dit team gaat aan de slag met de invulling van de grotere vrije keuzeruimte in het 5e semester.

Drug-target binding kinetics determine the time course of the central event in pharmacotherapy: Drug-target interaction.

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

n this thesis we study curves. In the first half, we study moduli spaces of curves and Gromov-Witten invariants, certain kinds of curves counts. We employ logarithmic geometry for this.

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