Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

This thesis describes biochemical investigations of glucocerebrosidase (GBA), the lysosomal β- glucosidase that is deficient in Gaucher disease (GD).

Quantum hardware comes with a different computing paradigm and new ways to tackle applications. Much effort has to be put into understanding how to leverage this technology to give real-world advantages in areas of interest for industries such as combinatorial optimization or machine learning.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck

This thesis provides explicit expressions for the density functions of absolutely continuous invariant measures for general families of interval maps, that include random maps and infinite measure transformations, not necessarily number systems.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.J. Batenburg

Promotor: J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-Promotor: A. Kros

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Univ. de Bordeaux)

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

This thesis manuscript explores the use of video games as tools for conceptual exploration and academic research.

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Microbial rhodopsins are photosensitive pigments implemented in the growth and adaptation of a large population of microorganisms.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.

Lipid signaling is an essential biological event/process in a plethora of pathophysiological conditions. The underlying idea of this thesis is that many of the roles and the complex interplay of the individual signaling lipids in inflammatory processes and related conditions in health and disease is…

Promotor: R.D. Gill, F. Taroni

Dit op casestudies gebaseerde Engelstalige boek over multivariate analyse voor gevorderde studenten in de geesteswetenschappen legt de nadruk op beschrijvende, exploratieve analyses van verschillende soorten datasets uit een breed scala van subdisciplines, waarbij het gebruik van multivariate analyse…

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

In the first part, we introduce a new condition, called toric-additivity, on a family of abelian varieties degenerating to a semi-abelian scheme over a normal crossing divisor.

This thesis is concerned with the constitution of chiral responsive matrix assemblies that may undergo light-driven conformational changes and self-select vibrations to develop vibronic states for driving semi-classical coherent transfer with nearly 100% yield in a lossless NCAP process.

Promotor: J. Kuiper

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: D. Claessen

Statistical considerations guide the design and implementation of the experiments that scientists perform. For instance, in a clinical trial about a the efficacy of a treatment, its effect in a certain minimum amount of patients has to be observed in order to make confident assertions about the efficacy…

In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.

The main subject of this thesis is the design and synthesis of paramagnetic molecules for protein studies with NMR and EPR spectroscopy.

This thesis applies data mining in commercial settings in the telecommunications industry.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. J. de Vries

Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml

We explored the Universe using weak gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that occurs when light from distant galaxies is bent by the gravitational fields of closer cosmic objects, much like how a lens distorts light.

The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.

Supramolecular polymers are class of materials that are formed by non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, π-π interactions, electrostatic interactions and the hydrophobic effect.

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

The main object of study in this thesis is an Arakelov inequalitywhich bounds the degree of an invertible subsheaf of the direct image ofthe pluricanonical relative sheaf of a semistable family of curves.

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

This thesis is largely an experimental study on the formation of solid-state simple and complex organic molecules in the H2O-rich and CO-rich ice phases of dense interstellar clouds and dark cores.