At the largest scales, two ingredients dictate the distribution of matter in the Universe. The first is dark matter, acting as an invisible scaffolding held together by gravitational forces.

Glycosidases are essential in fundamental biological processes and are responsible for the degradation of most (oligo)saccharides, glycolipids and glycoproteins.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

Op 17 november 2021 verdedigde Cyril-Igor Grigorieff het proefschrift 'The Regime for International Air Carrier Liability'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof.dr. V. Correia (University Paris Saclay).

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: Theo Reijmers

Autophagy is a fundamental degradative process, maintaining cellular homeostasis and functions in host defense against intracellular pathogens, including mycobacteria and Salmonella.

Of all the mass in our Universe, 80% is thought to consist of a hypothetical and invisible substance called dark matter (DM).

Kunnen we van quantum-verrassingen quantum toepassingen maken? Kunnen we het leven onderzoeken en opbouwen vanuit de nano-schaal?

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Op 13 oktober 2021 verdedigde Ross Spence het proefschrift 'Collateral Transactions and Shadow Banking'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. M. Haentjens en prof.dr. A.M. Pacces (UvA).

Promotores: K.J. Batenburg, B. Koren

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?

Het schema hieronder geeft het curriculum weer van het eenjarige fulltime programma van de master Health, Ageing and Society in collegejaar 2024-2025.

Despite the history of studies on methanol formation from CO2, the dominant elementary reaction steps that constitute the chemical mechanism for this catalyzed process are not determined.

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

The effective treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge to global health.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Smets, M. Stech

Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a group of acute diseases caused by highly infectious viruses including Ebola, Lassa, Dengue viruses. Its high mortality rate poses high risk to public health, however, studies on VHF have been hampered due to the non-availability of proper models and incomplete knowledge…

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…

This programme aims to make the digitized archival sources of the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Archives more accessible to Indian and international scholars and to the widest possible audience, in particular to the people of Kerala.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer characterized by limited treatment options and unfavorable clinical outcomes. Therefore, the research described in this thesis focused on the exploration of novel targeted therapies for TNBC.

Op deze pagina vindt u de opnames van de online This Week's Discoveries vanaf 12 mei 2020 en een lijst sprekers vanaf oktober 2015.

In this thesis, deep learning is studied from a statistical perspective. Convergence rates for the worst case risk bounds of neural network estimators are obtained in the classification, density estimation and linear regression model.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12.30-14.00

Als alumnus van de Universiteit Leiden kunt u uw hele leven lang gebruik blijven maken van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL).

De bijdragen aan deze bundel belichten de rechtsvormende taak in meer algemene zin, maar besteden ook aandacht aan specifieke ontwikkelingen op belangrijke rechtsgebieden die onder de hoede van de Hoge Raad vallen.

Een overzicht van blogs, video's, podcasts, boeken, artikelen en activiteiten waarmee u zich verder kunt verdiepen in het koloniale en slavernijverleden.

MCS bestaat uit vijf medewerkers, die allen sterke banden hebben met de ‘museums and collections’ opleiding bij de faculteit geesteswetenschappen en ‘heritage and museums’ bij de faculteit archeologie.

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

PhDArts co-director Dr. Janneke Wesseling’s e-book ‘De volmaakte beschouwer, De ervaring van het kunstwerk en receptie-esthetica’ was recently published. The key question of the book is: how does the work of art work?

Leiden en Delft zijn zeer geschikt om de interessante studie LST te combineren met je persoonlijke ontwikkeling en te werken aan je toekomst.

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Tracing the evolution of the molecular gas content in galaxies is critical for a complete understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, as it provides the direct fuel for star formation. Studies of high-redshift (z>1) molecular gas reservoirs, most commonly traced by carbon monoxide (CO), have seen…

Studievoorlichting

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…

Meepraten over de toekomst van het advocatenkantoor als onderneming!

‘We must be in the Netherlands, because it isn’t even three o’clock yet and we have already started!’, lacht Pamela Hack, de Amerikaanse Deputy Consul General. Afgelopen week bezochten de scholieren van de Pre-Class ‘Political American History’ de nieuwe Amerikaanse ambassade in Wassenaar. Wat volgde…

Ruim zeventig promovendi uit Leiden en Delft kwamen op 13 juli bijeen op het strand van Katwijk voor een workshop van de Casimir Research School: ‘So you have a degree in Science. Now what?’

De meest bijzondere afbeeldingen, kledingstukken en andere unieke voorwerpen uit de vier eeuwen tellende geschiedenis van de universiteit zijn nu te zien bij ‘Celebrating Curiosity’. Vier stukken uit deze expositie uitgelicht.

Leidse wetenschappers en studenten bloggen en podcasten over onderzoek en onderwijs.

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.

The key purpose of this project is to study tautological relations on the level of closed differential forms or even integral cochains (i.e. we don't take classes in cohomology).

Monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) is the principal enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). MAGL inhibition provides several potential therapeutic opportunities, including anti-nociceptive, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity.

Promotor: Bas Edixhoven, Promotor: Qing Liu

This dissertation presents the results of the importance of creativity for ICT-students of Dutch universities of applied sciences (in Dutch: hogescholen), and the functioning of training courses that aim to promote creative abilities is highlighted.

Promotores: Prof.dr. S.J. Edixhoven, Prof.dr. E. Ullmo (University Paris-Sud)