One of the effects of climate change is the phenomenon of desertification, a process that occurs in semi-arid and arid areas and causes land degradation as well as vegetation loss. Due to the lack of resources, vegetation self-organizes to sustain itself by forming large-scale spatial patterns.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: A.J. Knobbe

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

Op 8 januari 2020 verdedigde Jelmer Brouwer zijn proefschrift 'Detection, detention, deportation'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. J.P. van der Leun en prof.dr. M.A.H. van der Woude.

Structural variants (SVs) are the hidden architecture of the human genome, and are critical for us to understand diseases, evolution, and so on.

The goal of the project is the development of stream mining techniques for complex patterns such as graphs. We will try to extend the existing state-of-the-art techniques into two, orthogonal directions: on the one hand, the mining of more complex patterns in streams, such as sequential patterns and…

Single-molecule spectroscopy has become a powerful method for using organic fluorescent molecules in numerous applications.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Eliel, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

In this work, we attempt to answer the question:

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: C.M. Soares, A.J. Knobbe

Promotor: I. Snellen, Co-Promotor: M. Kenworthy

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

Detecting nanoscopic objects plays an important role in nanoscience in particular, in the rapidly growing field of nanobiology. The forebear to modern super-resolution microscopy for single molecule investigation, is fluorescence microscopy.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

The major and ultimate aim of metabolomics is to obtain an answer to a specific biological or clinical question.

In this thesis, we study travelling waves in stochastic reaction-diffusion equations. We extend techniques from the deterministic theory for travelling waves to apply to the stochastic version, which allows us to compute the stochastic wave speed and shape, and draw conclusions on the stability of the…

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What happens to electrical waves that have to cross gaps in insulation material around nerves in the human body

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

How do nanoparticles bioaccumulate and biodistribute in organisms?

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

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

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

We have studied shape with a particular focus on the zebrafish model system. The shape is an essential appearance of the phenotype of a biological specimen and it can be used to read out a current state or response or to study gene expression.

In the first part of this thesis we study the geometry of folding patterns.

Promotor: A.W. van der Vaart

Promotor: Arjen Doelman, Co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

Promotores: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Prof.dr. A. Fiore (TU Eindhoven)

LIACS is a partner in the EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development for the Asian education system. The knowledge available in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence education will be shared and adapted for the Asian market.

Hybrid zones occur where two species meet and produce offspring (hybrids). Typically, hybrids show a considerable reduction in fitness. In this thesis two hybrid zones are treated.

How the global distribution of vegetation stands dominated by arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal plants relate to principle aspects of belowground carbon accumulation processes?

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

The thesis is part of a bigger project, the HEPGAME (High Energy Physics Game). The main objective for HEPGAME is the utilization of AI solutions, particularly by using MCTS for simplification of HEP calculations.

The first direct detection of gravitational waves opened the possibility of mapping the Universe via this new and independent messenger.

In this PhD-thesis several new and existing data science application are described that are particularly focused on applications for tax administrations.

This thesis aims to improve the detection from ultra-weak single emitter by enhancing their emission properties with plasmonic nanostructures. We exploit the wet-chemically synthesized single crystalline gold nanorods (GNRs) as our basic frameworks in the whole studies, simply because of their unique…

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Promotores: J. Kok, M. Chaudron (Chalmers University)

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

Single-Molecule Microscopy (SMM) techniques constitute a group of powerful imaging tools that enable researchers to study the dynamic behavior of individual molecules.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh