In 2013-2014, CML published over 100 papers, contributed to various international sustainability debates, renovated our building and educated thousands of students from all over the world through our MOOC. These accomplishments and many more are highlighted in this booklet, CML wish you a pleasant…

The aim of this thesis is to present novel techniques for proving cryptographic schemes secure against quantum adversaries. Most results are within the context of an idealized model called the ‘quantum random-oracle model’.

In 2015, CML published over 70 papers, contributed to the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, won awards and advised the Dutch government on the safe use of pesticides. CML awarded 11 PhDs and taught students from all over the world how to contribute to sustainability. We wish you…

This thesis consists of five chapters on how to construct prediction sets for different types of data and models in a parametric or nonparametric Bayesian paradigm.

Promotor: P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk

How are new drugs developed? This question is central to the Minor Modern Drug Discovery (MDD), which covers the entire trajectory from disease to drug molecule and vice versa. The various research groups involved offer a complementary and interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the diverse subjects…

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For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

Groenten kweken zonder zonlicht én efficiënt koolstofdioxide opvangen. Een nieuwe publicatie van Amerikaanse onderzoekers in Nature Foods laat zien hoe dat kan. Hoogleraar biofysische organische chemie Huub de Groot geeft commentaar in het Parool.

The Leiden University Centre for the Digital Humanities (LUCDH) invites applications from Leiden University staff and students for funding aimed at developing Digital Humanities activities.

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In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on medicine and astrology fulfilled important rhetorical functions in knowledge communication.…

Grensverleggend geschiedenis leren.

Description of Atlas of the surfacewater concentrations of pesticides in the Netherlands, a pilotstudy.

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

Hoe kan de techniek van cell wall engineering worden ingezet zodat de industrie streptomyceten beter kunnen verwerken tot nieuwe antibiotica?

eLaw onderzoekt de rol van het recht in de informatiemaatschappij: hoe kan het recht bijdragen aan een goede werking van informatie- en communicatietechnologie, en het gebruik ervan door burgers, bedrijven en overheden?

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Studievoorlichting

Planten, algen en bacteriën zetten zonlicht om in chemische energie. In een workshop van het Lorentz Center inventariseren onderzoekers de mogelijkheden om dit proces van fotosynthese te benutten en imiteren, met het oog op een duurzame brandstofvoorziening. De vrijdagmiddagsessie is openbaar.

Marc Koper, hoogleraar Katalyse en oppervlaktechemie, heeft de Brian Conway Prize for Physical Electrochemistry van de International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) gewonnen. De ISE jury koos hem als winnaar vanwege zijn uitzonderlijke bijdrage aan de fysische elektrochemie.

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Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

Waarschijnlijk zijn in de vorige eeuw kinderen geadopteerd uit Zuid-Korea, zonder dat hun biologische ouders daar toestemming voor hebben gegeven. Het land start daarom een onderzoek. Hoogleraar Remco Breuker duidt de situatie voor de NOS.

Bestudeer alle aspecten van het menselijk leven in het verleden en plaats je kennis in een breder, historisch perspectief.

Bestudeer alle aspecten van cultureel erfgoed en onderzoek de rol hiervan in de samenleving.

De gemeente Oss is een begrip in de wereld van de Nederlandse archeologie. Al vijftig jaar lang leggen Leidse archeologen, in samenwerking met inwoners van Oss, de geschiedenis van de gemeente bloot. 2024 is het archeologische jaar van Oss! In een reeks interviews blikken we terug op vijftig jaar samenwerking…

Dr. Helen Pluut heeft een artikel gepubliceerd in het gerenommeerde tijdschrift Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP). Dit in samenwerking met Remus Ilies (National University of Singapore), Petru Curşeu (Open Universiteit en Babeş-Bolyai University) en Yukun Liu (University of…

In this project of the Center for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) ongoing research is conducted on the history of advice to Dutch central government by so-called State committees from 1814 to 2014. State committees have been installed by Dutch central government since 1814 to provide expert advice, research…

This report investigates the different approaches in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use in the European Union and the United States of America. Three main aspects are considered and analyzed as potential causes of differences in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use.…

Samen met wetenschappers van over de hele wereld streeft de ENIGMA-Anxiety Werkgroep ernaar om meer inzicht te krijgen in de neurobiologische karakteristieken van angststoornissen.

In this thesis, we will utilize embryonic zebrafish tumour models to understand the interaction between engrafted human cancer cells and macrophages from the host, test drug administration modalities and anti-cancer efficacies of newly-developed PDT and PACT compounds, and test a light-triggered liposomal…

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

Are there significant differences among the environmental impacts resulting form the production of Asian aquaculture commodities and what are the main causes for these?

What are trait-trait relationships in wetlands? To what extent the so-called leaf economics traits deviate from terrestrial ecosystems? How traits specific to wetland plant relate to plant strategies? What’s the relationship between wetland plant traits to the ecosystem functioning (e.g. productivity,…

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Accumulation of metals in economy and environment and its associated risks, within the Netherlands and the EU.

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

A linguistic prehistory of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China

Athletes always strive for the top. How can data scientists assist them in improving their performance? During the seminar Data Science and Sports, the possibilities and challenges of collaboration between these two worlds were discussed.

Een nieuw artikel van Dr. Helen Pluut zal verschijnen in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Het artikel, dat samen met Marion Büttgen en Jan Ullrich van de Universiteit van Hohenheim is geschreven, heeft implicaties voor organisaties die een duaal laddersysteem hanteren. Zulke systemen…

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Effectiveness and Side-effects.

One of the major limitations in culturing complex tissues or organs is the lack of vascularization in the cultured tissue. Development of a functional capillary bed could overcome this problem.

During the course of drug discovery translational steps are made.