A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, L.D.J. Taelman

This thesis describes the genetic and prokaryotic diversity of giant barrel sponges.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma

A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.

Op 1 april 2020 verdedigde Marc Broekema zijn proefschrift 'Cognitive Bias in the Judgment of Business Valuations and Valuators'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. J.I. van der Rest.

Promotor: J. A. Bouwstra

In this course, you will explore the organs involved in our food digestion and discover the common causes of abdominal and pelvic pain. The latest graphics and animations will give you new insights and understandings of this part of the body.

Promotores: W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg, G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: M.G. Vijver

Dissochaeta Blume (Melastomataceae, tribe Dissochaeteae) is well-known as a scrambling plant genus found in Southeast Asia, where it is an inhabitant of the tropical rainforests or evergreen forests.

Het boek 'The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child' is het resultaat van de conferentie – ’25 Years CRC’ – die in november 2014 in Leiden werd gehouden.

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

There is concern about the threat that nanoplastics (NPs) may pose to both wildlife and humans. This thesis explores the mechanisms of toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) in chicken embryo.

There is no heritage without emotional sharing and clashing. This article explores the involvement of divergent emotions in heritage making by discussing the debate series of Imagine IC and the Reinwardt Academy and zooming in on the commemoration of slavery and imagery of ‘Black Pete’ in the Netherlands.…

Trigonostemon Blume is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 59 species.

Op 5 juni 2018 verdedigde Emile Beenakker zijn proefschrift getiteld ‘The implementation of international law in the national legal order: A legislative perspective’. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor professor W.J.M. Voermans.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen (Università degli studi di Milano), Co-Supervisor: Ronald M. van Luijk

Op 16 juni 2020 verdedigde Andrea Varga haar proefschrift 'Establishing State Responsibility in the Absence of Effective Government'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof. dr. F. Baetens (University of Oslo).

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.T.F. den Hollander

The thesis focuses on synthesis strategies in oligosaccharide campaigns, and the influence of protecting groups.

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Mariana Gkliati het proefschrift 'Systemic Accountability of the European Border and Coast Guard'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. P. Rodrigues en prof.dr. L. Besselink (UvA).

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Op 13 januari 2022 verdedigde Pie Habimana het proefschrift 'Harmful Tax Competition in the East African Community'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. H. Vording en prof.dr. S.C.W. Douma (UvA).

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg

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-…

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo

In dit artikel gaan Joris Larik en Richard Ponzio in op het belang van de Summit of the Future om multilaterale samenwerking een nieuw leven in te blazen en te versterken in een tijdperk van toenemende concurrentie tussen de grootmachten.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability' laat zien hoe de eco-geologische creativiteit van de aarde verweven is met de landvormen, culturen en wereldvisies van moderne Himalayagemeenschappen. Het boek laat casestudies zien uit Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim,…

One of the key quests in astronomy is to study the growth and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Radio observations provide a powerful means of studying the formation of stars and subsequent buildup of distant galaxies, in a way that is unbiased by the presence of dust.

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

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…

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.

The adenosine receptors are proteins that reside in the extracellular membranes of cells. Activation of adenosine receptors plays a role in many physiological and pathological processes, such as immune responses and cancers.

Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Cardiovascular diseases are the primary cause of death in the world with atherosclerosis as primary underlying cause.

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

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’.

What are the main factors associated with the stranding of the two seal species? What are the factors influencing the prevalence of disease in the two species? Which human-related factors influence the populations of the two seal species?

Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé

Een verhaal van Twee Mosuls, De wederopstand van de Irakese strijdkrachten en de militaire nederlaag van ISIS. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd in het Journal of Strategic Studies, bespreken de auteurs Maarten Broekhof, Martijn Kitzen en Frans Osinga de militaire aanpassing door de Iraakse strijdkrachten…

Op 9 januari 2019 verdedigde Marieke Wierda haar proefschrift 'The Local Impact of a Global Court: Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Court in Situation Countries'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. C. Stahn en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

Op 24 juni 2021 verdedigde Jing Zhang zijn proefschrift 'The Rationale of Publicity in the Law of Corporeal Movables and Claims'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. H.J. Snijders en dr. J.A. van der Weide.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo