The theoretical explanation of cosmic acceleration is nowadays one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

Op 23 juni 2020 verdedigde Santy Kouwagam haar proefschrift 'How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. A.W. Bedner en prof.dr. C.E. von Benda-Beckmann.

Promotor: R.D. Gill, F. Taroni

Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.

Promotor: J. Schaye

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

To study how planetary systems come into existence we study much younger systems still in formation.

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

The plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development through polar cell-to-cell transport-generated maxima and minima. PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers determine the direction of this auxin flow through their asymmetric placement on the plasma membrane (PM).

In astronomy, the interpration of observations and measurements plays a crucial role: we rely purely and fundamentally on the information that reaches us as observers. And 80% of all matter in the universe is undetectable directly.

Hieronder vind je een overzicht van hoe onderzoekers van de faculteit Governance and Global Affairs en hun onderzoeken in de media verschijnen, en lees je meer over onderwerpen waar de faculteit zich mee bezighoudt.

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

Promotores: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, P.M. Brakefield, Co-Promotor: M. Bruinsma

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

Promotor: M.A.G.J. Orrit

In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.

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

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

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

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.

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

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.