Kennis van moslimsamenlevingen is onmisbaar om in een geglobaliseerde wereld te kunnen functioneren en om onze eigen Nederlandse maatschappij goed te begrijpen. In Leiden verdiepen onderzoekers zich in de talen, cultuur, religie, rechtssystemen en geschiedenis van moslimsamenlevingen en zetten daarmee…

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The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

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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.

The work described in this Thesis is focused on the assembly of oligosaccharide fragments derived from a fungal polysaccharide, galactosaminogalactan (GAG) and fragments of the exopolysaccharide Pel, generated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.

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

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

This multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

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Wat doet de naam van de middeleeuwse Perzische dichter Nezami (✞ ca. 1209) op de cover van een rockalbum van Eric Clapton? Asghar Seyed Gohrab, universitair hoofddocent aan het Instituut voor Area Studies, vertelt erover in een nieuwe blog voor het Leiden Medievalists Blog.

Universitair docent Anna Dlabacova krijgt een Starting Grant van de European Research Council. Ze gaat de beurs van ongeveer 1,5 miljoen euro gebruiken om onderzoek te doen naar het Nederlandstalige getijden- en gebedenboek.

Lang werd gedacht dat de vroege ontwikkeling van Japanse kinderboeken vooral diende als propagandamiddel van de staat: de literatuur zou zijn geschreven om kinderen te vormen tot de perfecte burger. Promovenda Aafke van Ewijk nuanceert dit beeld. ‘Kinderboekenschrijvers wilden hun eigen zegje doen.’…

Drie Leidse geesteswetenschappers hebben een Veni-subsidie van NWO in de wacht gesleept voor hun onderzoeksprojecten. De veelbelovende, pas gepromoveerde onderzoekers kunnen daarmee de komende drie jaar hun wetenschappelijke ideeën verder uitwerken. De Veni's zijn toegekend aan Lucien van Beek, Karwan…

Wat doe je als je een boek uit de zestiende of zeventiende eeuw hebt, maar je vermoedt dat in de boekrug een fragment van een middeleeuws handschrift is verwerkt? Universitair docent Thijs Porck kreeg een NWO-beurs om aan de slag te gaan met een camera aan een slang. ‘Het project komt neer op kijkoperaties…

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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.

This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

Hot astrophysical plasma is ubiquitous in the Universe, from comets in our Solar system to the largest scale structures -- the cosmic web filaments. These hot plasmas, with the temperature of a few millions of degrees, are often observed in the X-ray wavelength range.

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. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

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.

Creating a framework to assess the sustainability of fish farms which will set sustainability standards and give consumers information about the the sustainability and safety of their seafood.

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials which derive their unusual properties from their structure rather than their composition.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

Studievoorlichting

In dit interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma werken onderzoekers uit vijf verschillende disciplines met elkaar samen. Zij stellen zich hieronder (in het Engels) aan u voor.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde (LION)