Universitair docent Tom-Eric Krijger deelt zijn inzichten over de geschiedenis van zitplaatsen in kerken in het Reformatorisch Dagblad.

Hoogleraar Maurits Berger stond diverse media te woord over de raketaanval van Iran op Israël.

Hoe is het conflict tussen de Israëliërs en Palestijnen ontstaan? Hoogleraar Maurits Berger beantwoordt die vraag in een video voor de Universiteit van Nederland.

Drie Europese landen hebben onlangs bekendgemaakt de Palestijnse staat te erkennen. Hoogleraar Maurits Berger duidt de situatie bij BNR en in FD.

De European Research Council heeft aan vijf Leidse onderzoekers een ERC Consolidator Grant toegekend. Met deze beurs van maximaal twee miljoen euro kunnen zij hun wetenschappelijk onderzoek voortzetten en uitbreiden.

Bastiaan Rijpkema is per 1 juli 2021 benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar op de nieuwe leerstoel Verdraagzaamheid aan de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen. De leerstoel is ingesteld door de Stichting Leerstoel Uytenbogaert.

Maar liefst drie Leidse geesteswetenschappers hebben financiering toegekend gekregen vanuit de Vrije competitie geesteswetenschappen van NWO, twee van 750.000 en één van 705.000 euro. In totaal kregen twaalf onderzoekers een subsidie vanuit het NWO-domein Sociale en Geesteswetenschappen.

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

Promotor: J.M. Memelink

Between the early thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries CE, the Sultanate of Cairo affected the balances of power elites across and beyond the regions of Egypt, Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean. Modern historiography has for a long time been determined by the idea of this sultanate as a highly…

In lieu of the Medieval Studies Day 2021, the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies has organised the following alternative event online: TOTENTANZ, Reflection Online, December 17, 16.00-17.30. Totentanz is an animation opera produced by the Dutch stage director Wim Trompert, based on Bernt…

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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…

Migratie en criminaliteit staan maatschappelijk volop in de schijnwerpers. Binnen het instituut voor Strafrecht en Criminologie heeft onderzoek op dit terrein zich de laatste jaren sterk ontwikkeld. Het begrip Crimmigratie staat daarbij centraal.

Het onderzoek binnen de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen richt zich op de volle breedte van de bètawetenschappen en varieert van wiskunde, informatica, sterrenkunde, natuurkunde, scheikunde en bio-farmaceutische wetenschappen tot aan biologie en milieuwetenschappen. De gastlessen die deze…

Barrier function is the natural role of the skin. The lipid matrix present in the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum is important for this function.

Does a high quality prairie restoration in an urban/agricultural landscape provide invertebrates necessary for a sustainable ecosystem?

Striga hermonthica, commonly known as witchweed, infests major cereal crops in Sub-Saharan Africa causing severe yield losses and threatening the livelihood of millions of resource poor farmers.

In this work, we investigate the minute circular dichroism effects of single nanoparticles.To this aim, we apply photothermal imaging with a polarization-modulated heating beam.

Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries

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In the search for sustainable energy solutions, the idea of artificial photosynthesis has been proposed as an approach with which to use water and sunlight to produce hydrogen.

Cathodic corrosion is a relatively unknown phenomenon that can severely etch metallic electrodes at cathodic (negative) potentials.

In light of climate change, it is crucial to determine whether plant species can adapt to future climates to avoid extinction. Plants adapt to various conditions by altering their functional traits, such as leaf size or photosynthetic rate. Some traits appear linked and vary together between species,…

The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

In 2005 en 2015 heeft de Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts twee eredoctoraten toegekend.

Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are a group of orphan diseases characterized by lysosomal dysfunction or impaired lysosomal catabolism and affect collectively about 1 in 5000 live births.

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotoren: M.F.E. de Jeu, S.D. Silvestrov

We developed the bitterling as a unique, well-studied model organism in the area of the evolutionary ecology of brood parasitism. The bitterling-mussel relationship, interspecific mussel host preference, and mussel gill structure are studied in detail, to help understand the developmental adaptation…

An Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) is a highly luminous region at the center of a galaxy, powered by the accretion into a supermassive black hole and emitting energy from radio waves to gamma rays, often outshining the host galaxy.

To get an idea of the science communication products and research that is possible, a few examples of student projects of recent years are shown below.

This thesis presents the systematics, epidermal defense, and bioprospecting of wild orchids.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Prof.dr. A.H. Meijer

Astronomical observations of cold regions in the universe show a rich inventory of ices. Part of these ices may end up on planets like our own, but in that journey they will be exposed to considerable amounts of radiation.

Promotores: H.S. Overkleeft; G.A. van der Marel Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Promotor: H.P. Spaink, Co-Promotor: A.H. Meijer

We have conducted a full spectral line survey of the 3-13 micron region of two massive protostars, AFGL 2591 and AFGL 2136, for the first time at high spectral resolution.

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In this thesis integral points on affine del Pezzo surfaces are studied.