Szmulewicz, een promovendus van de afdeling Staats- en Bestuursrecht, heeft twee online presentaties gegeven over ‘The unitary and decentralized state’ en ‘The need to strengthen the autonomy of the territories in the new Constitution in order to reduce regional inequalities’ aan de raad die over de…

Waarom is er geen Noordoost Aziatische veiligheidsstructuur? In dit artikel, gepubliceerd in The Pacific Review, bespreken auteurs Wang (Peking University) en Stevens (Leiden University) de vier obstakels voor coöperatie in Oost Azië.

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Op donderdag 17 oktober organiseerde de masteropleiding Crisis and Security Management (CSM) een informatief alumni-panel met vijf afgestudeerden uit verschillende cohorten. Het panel bood huidige studenten de kans om te luisteren naar professionals die hun eigen weg hebben gebaand in crisis- en vei…

Tarlach McGonagle is per 1 mei 2019 benoemd op de bijzondere leerstoel Mediarecht in de Informatiesamenleving, die is ingesteld door het Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) en ondergebracht bij de Afdeling Staats- en bestuursrecht.

Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy, universitair docent Afrikaanse geschiedenis en International Studies, ontving een Comenius Teaching Fellow-beurs van 50.000 euro. Met deze beurs zal ze, samen met studenten, werken aan een online archief van digitale bronnen. Van der Wal-Rémy: ‘Iedereen denkt altijd: ‘dat…

We are very excited to announce our Sustainability Series for 2023-2024. Each month an interactive workshop will be organised that discusses a specific theme of sustainability. Interested about sustainability? Do not hesitate to sign up to our events !

Het beëindigen van het zevenenveertig jarige lidmaatschap van het Verenigd Koninkrijk (VK) met de Europese Unie (EU) heeft de relaties tussen de twee fundamenteel veranderd. Na jaren van tumultueuze onderhandelingen bepaalt internationaal recht nu weer de VK’s relatie met de EU. Dit heeft geresulteerd…

How should jurisdictions, both on the national and on the supra-national level, handle the interaction between public and private law where it regards the regulation of financial markets?

Willemijn Aerdts, promovendus bij het Institute of Security and Global Affairs, vertelt bij EenVandaag dat het belangrijk is dat de Europese Commissie nu in actie komt tegen de Russische propaganda op social media.

Berichtendienst Telegram komt steeds vaker negatief in het nieuws. Dit vanwege de criminele activiteiten die op het platform plaatsvinden. De actualiteitenrubriek EenVandaag van AVROTROS beantwoordt vragen van kijkers, luisteraars en lezers.

Grensverleggend geschiedenis leren.

Leidinggeven op afstand vraagt om een aangepaste leiderschapsstijl.

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?

Studievoorlichting

Stars and planets form within cold, dense clouds of gas and dust drifting through interstellar space. Although dust makes up only a small fraction of this material, it plays a key role in shaping the chemical evolution of these environments.

Promotor: Jan van der Greef; Co-promotors: Mei Wang; Eduard van Wijk

This thesis describes the design, characterization and application of dextran based crosslinked network.

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.

Promotor: F. Arbab

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

Promotor: H.P. Spaink, A.H. Meijer Co-promotor: R. Marin-Juez

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. Its properties cannot be explained with the known laws of physics and elementary particles.

Enzymes are innately sensitive to changes in the amino acid sequence, which largely constrains their evolutionary potential, i.e., evolvability. This evolutionary burden can be alleviated in the presence of stabilizing mutations, which increase the buffering capacity of enzymes to tolerate mutations…

This thesis explores different avenues to develop insurmountable antagonists for CC Chemokine Receptors, such as CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5.

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.

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

Cancer is considered the silent pandemic of the 21st century and the second leading cause of death worldwide.

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

The radio sky harbours both galactic and extragalactic sources of arcminute- to degree-scale emission of various physical origins. To discover extragalactic diffuse emission in the Cosmic Web beyond galaxy clusters, one must image low–surface brightness structures amidst a sea of brighter compact fore-…

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Evelien Campfens het proefschrift 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof.dr. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).

This thesis considers multi-prover commitment schemes whose security is based on restrictions on the communication between the provers.

Three major cosmology-focused missions are planned for the next decade: the Euclid space telescope, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Regeneration is the ability of an organism to restore damaged or lost tissue with a functional replacement, and without scarring. Many lizards can regenerate their tails.

Streptomyces are filamentous bacteria that produce more than two-thirds of known antibiotics.

In this thesis I highlight the applications of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing. This technique is a relatively new approach in the sequencing field, where nanopores are embedded in a membrane, DNA molecules are pulled through nanopores and an electrical current serving as the sequencing…

In this thesis, the role of plant-mediated soil legacy effects in shaping aboveground plant-insect interactions was investigated.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. G.H. Baltes (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

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.

This work describes the use of click-to-release chemistry to get spatiotemporal control over immunocytokine activity. Until now, immunocytokines (cytokines coupled to a tumor-targeting-moiety) remained active throughout the body, being able to bind their respective receptors, causing mild to severe…

The research described in this thesis centered on retaining exo-β-glucosidases implicated in health and disease, in particular the human inherited lysosomal storage disorder, Gaucher disease (GD).

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

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.

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

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

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.

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