Water is all around us and is vital for all aspects of life. Studying the various compounds and life forms that inhabit natural waters lets us better understand the world around us.

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

Biodiversity enables ecosystems to thrive through the synergy of functional differences among organisms. While human well-being strongly depends on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services, human actions are also at the root of current unprecedented biodiversity declines.

Op 1 juli 2020 verdedigde Niek Strohmaier zijn proefschrift 'Making Sense of Business Failure'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. J.A.A. Adriaanse en dr. H. Pluut.

Politicologen Rebekah Tromble en Michael Meffert (Universiteit Leiden) analyseren waarom sommige media frames aanhouden, terwijl andere frames snel in de vergetelheid geraken. Zij ontwikkelen een methode die is ontleend aan event-history. De casus die Tromble en Meffert bekijken, is de verslaglegging…

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt

This article studies the influence of framing on preferences for cooperation with the EU.

Viral diseases constitute one of the major challenges in modern medicine. Membrane-targeting have broad-spectrum potential and could distinguish viral membranes from the host cell plasma membrane by the difference in membrane curvature.

Promotor: M.A.G.J. Orrit

Advanced sensing techniques require graphene with high quality and well-controlled surface chemistry.

Pericytes, the mural cells of blood microvessels, are important regulators of vascular morphogenesis and function that have been postulated to mechanically control microvascular diameter through as yet unknown mechanisms.

Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

Het belangrijkste doel van dit onderzoek was het bevorderen van de aspecten van de symbol sense die studenten in staat stellen algebraïsche formules te doorzien en niet-standaard algebra problemen aan te pakken.

Farmacoloog Amanda Foks is een van de tien getalenteerde wetenschappers die een Dekkerbeurs hebben ontvangen van de Hartstichting. Ze krijgt €427.000 om een manier te vinden om afweercellen te verjongen, om zo infarcten te voorkomen. In 2016 was Foks nog genomineerd als Ontdekker van het Jaar.

Yesilgöz sprak na de val van Rutte IV in de media over ‘heel veel’ stapeling van nareisaanvragen door statushouders, die een enorme druk op onze samenleving zouden leggen en de veiligheid kunnen bedreigen. Mark Klaassen, universitair docent Immigratierecht en lid van de Adviesraad Migratie, had geen…

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The next generation of high-contrast imaging instruments on space-based observatories requires sophisticated wavefront sensing and control in addition to a high-performance coronagraph.

There is accumulating evidence for an increase in severe global drought events. In particular, Europe experienced several severe droughts in 2003, 2015, and 2018 (unprecedented in the past 2,110 years). Such droughts have caused serious and far-reaching impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

From 5 to 7 June, the conference "The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices" will take place at the University of Padova. The conference programme can be found below. The conference can be attended virtually through the registration link below.

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Co-promotor: Frans Snik

De toenemende invloed van (sociale) media, de betrokkenheid van burgers in gemeentelijke vraagstukken en het groeiende wantrouwen in de overheid maken het noodzakelijk om grondige kennis op te doen. Er is behoefte aan lokale politieke expertise en kennis van ambtelijke integriteit, morele oordeelsvorming…

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Prof.dr. H.C. Gerritsen

On 5 and 6 june 2024, the conference The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices is organised at the University of Padova. The organisers welcome abstracts for 25-minute papers in English or Italian, to be submitted by November 30.

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

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

De onderzoeksgroep Digital Archaeology beheert twee computerlaboratoria voor verschillende doeleinden: een onderwijslab en een onderzoekslab.

Leidse fysici ontwikkelden een elegante meetmethode om supersnel elektrische geleiding in superdun materiaal te meten.

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

De Leidse Faculteit der Archeologie is de grootste academische instelling voor Archeologie in Nederland en een van de grootste ter wereld. Ze behoort tot de internationale top en staat in de top tien van de QS World University Ranking per vakgebied.

Op 11 oktober verdedigde Amanda Pasma het proefschrift 'Re-integratieondersteuning van interne en externe professionals tijdens detentie'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door Paul Nieuwbeerta, Hanneke Palmen en Esther van Ginneken.

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.

In de opleiding Nederlandse taal en cultuur richt je je op de kerndisciplines: oudere letterkunde, moderne letterkunde, taalkunde en taalbeheersing. Uniek voor Leiden is dat er in alle vakken veel aandacht is voor het thema ‘media’ en dat je je hier zelfs in kunt specialiseren.

De invloed van politiek gevoelige zaken op publiek vertrouwen in rechters

One of the key limitations of the direct imaging of exoplanets at small angular separations are quasi-static speckles that originate from evolving non-common path aberrations (NCPA) to which the primary adaptive optics system is inherently blind. The main focus of this thesis is the development and…