Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic disease caused by blood dwelling parasitic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, and it is classified as the second most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease, second only to malaria.

Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.C. van Welzen

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Op 16 december 2021 verdedigde Lisanne van Houten het proefschrift 'Flexing the Slot Regime'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof. L. Pierallini (Luiss University Of Rome).

Promotores: H.A. Udo De Haes, P.M. Brakefield

Promotor: F.P. Israel, Co-Promoter: R. Meijerink

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

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

The next generation of high-contrast imaging instruments on space-based observatories requires sophisticated wavefront sensing and control in addition to a high-performance coronagraph.

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

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

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

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: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

Membrane fusion is a vital process in living organisms and is mediated by zipper-like proteins.

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

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

Carbon dioxide capture and utilization technologies are necessary to create a truly circular economy. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formate is an appealing carbon utilization method as it can be performed at room temperature and pressure, it only requires two electrons, and it has…

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

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

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O.W. van Gaans

Promotor: W. Jaffe, Co-promotor: K. Meisenheimer

This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.

The lysosomal β-glucosidase named glucocerebrosidase (GCase) is a retaining β-glucosidase that hydrolyzes the glycosphingolipid glucosylceramide (GlcCer) to ceramide and glucose at acid pH.

Promotor: W. T. F. den Hollander, F. H. J. Redig

One of the most important puzzles in modern astrophysics is the nature of dark matter.

Special Issue in: Visual Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2016

In this article, Samuels focuses on the active fostering of subjunctivity in processes of narrative worldmaking. Drawing extensively from the narrative of an HIV‐positive woman in Indonesia, she shows that by subjunctively leaving open multiple narrative trajectories and future possibilities, individuals…

Balsaminaceae is a diverse plant family characterized by a huge floral morphological diversity.

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

The aim of the research presented in this thesis was to develop new methods forchallenging systems in liquid-state NMR using paramagnetic effects generated by thetwo-armed probe CLaNP-5.

Vancomycin is a last-resort antibiotic for the treatment of many Gram-positive bacterial infections, while remaining inactive against Gram-negative strains.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel, M. van Heel

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: T.H. Reijmers

Stochastic resetting is simple enough to be approached analytically, yet modifies stochastic processes in a non-trivial way.

Promotor: Prof.dr. I.A.G. Snellen, C.U. Keller

Nieuwe Duitse vertaling van 'Winnaars en verliezers. Een nuchtere balans van vijfhonder jaar immigratie' from Leo Lucassen and Jan Lucassen.

Multiple stars, that is two or more stars composing a gravitationally bound system, are common in the universe.

In this work, we illustrate unconventional approaches towards the fabrication of edge functionalized graphene nanostructures and bidimensional architectures in polymeric and metallic supports, with an outlook towards molecular sensing devices.

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg, Co-promotor: A.W. van der Vaart, B. de Smit

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).