Van oorlogsmisdaden tot ontheemding. Historicus Gert Oostindie beschrijft in zijn nieuwe boek de dekolonisatieoorlog door de ogen van de Nederlandse militaire die in Indonesië vochten.

The thesis is part of a bigger project, the HEPGAME (High Energy Physics Game). The main objective for HEPGAME is the utilization of AI solutions, particularly by using MCTS for simplification of HEP calculations.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)

The Department of Architecture of KU Leuven is looking for two full-time PhD students (48 months) for the ERC-funded project "URBAN-DELTA: Metropolises in the Mud. Innovation in Delta Building Technology in Europe and China before 1800", directed by Merlijn Hurx. Apply before: June 10

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

Hoe heeft migratie de Ierse en Italiaanse samenleving sinds 1945 beïnvloed?

Radboud University is looking for a PhD researcher who will investigate the afterlife of medieval thought in early modern Europe through the study of concrete instances of intellectual transfer, for instance the appropriation of specific medieval authors or early modern revaluations of specific themes…

This PhD research sets out to unravel and explain the socio-structural and cultural impacts of oil-industrialization on the local Bakhtiari community in general and the industrial laborers it provided in specific.

In de jaren zestig droeg cognitiewetenschapper Marvin Minsky aan MIT enkele van zijn studenten op een computer te programmeren om een eenvoudige taak uit te voeren: objectherkenning in foto's. Hij dacht dat het een aardig zomerproject zou zijn. Wetenschappers uit Leiden en de rest van de wereld werken…

Het proefschift 'Het belang van het Binnenhof' van dr. Diederik Smit is als boek verschenen bij Uitgeverij Prometheus. In het boek laat Smit zien hoe het oude machtscentrum van de Republiek zich in de voorbije tweehonderd jaar als toneel van de politiek kon handhaven en uiteindelijk uitgroeide tot het…

De opkomst, verbreiding en neergang van de beerput in stedelijke context

Robert Ietswaart doet bij de befaamde Harvard Medical School in Boston onderzoek naar humane genregulatie. Hij ontwikkelde een machine learning-algoritme om beter te kunnen voorspellen of een kandidaatmedicijn bijwerkingen kan gaan vertonen. Ietswaart studeerde wiskunde en natuurkunde in Leiden, en…

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are the most abundant biological entity in nature. They shape bacterial communities and are a major driving force in bacterial evolution.

Uncertainty and noise are frequently-encountered obstacles in real-world applications of numerical optimization. The practice of optimization that deals with uncertainties and noise is commonly referred to as robust optimization.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.

In this PhD-thesis several new and existing data science application are described that are particularly focused on applications for tax administrations.

Investigating epistemic and ethical practices in medical experimentation on humans in the colonial period in Southeast Asia.

Wie aan inlichtingenwerk denkt, denkt aan James Bond. De dagelijkse praktijk is gelukkig genuanceerder. In Vijandbeelden bespreekt Constant Hijzen het werk besproken van de Nederlandse inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten, vroeger en nu.

The first biennial symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries is scheduled for October 25 and 26, 2024. This event aims to facilitate the exchange of recent research, ongoing projects, and key discussions within the realm of environmental history among scholars from…

On 25 and 26 October 2024, the first biennial symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries, is scheduled to take place at Leiden University.

Industrial manufacturing processes, such as the production of steel or the stamping of car body parts, are complex semi-batch processes with many process steps, machine parameters and quality indicators.

Politicologen Rebekah Tromble en Michael Meffert (Universiteit Leiden) analyseren waarom sommige media frames aanhouden, terwijl andere frames snel in de vergetelheid geraken. Zij ontwikkelen een methode die is ontleend aan event-history. De casus die Tromble en Meffert bekijken, is de verslaglegging…

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

Fondazione 1563 launched a call for the Summer School of the Turin Humanities Programme, that will take place in Torino from September 6 to September 8 2023. The theme is: Writing global medieval history: comparative and connected approaches. Deadline for applications: June 25.

Lezing, Studium Generale

The research group Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present investigates a wide range of national political cultures in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead of only analyzing high politics (the acts of governments and political parties), the research group focuses…

By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

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

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

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Historica Manon van der Heijden is per 1 oktober benoemd tot hoogleraar Comparative Urban History bij de Universiteit Leiden. De leerstoel is ingesteld bij het Instituut Geschiedenis dat een meer uitgesproken profiel wenst op het gebied van stadsgeschiedenis. Van der Heijden was al werkzaam bij het…

Lezing, Studium Generale

Een kleine geschiedenis van het leven op aarde, verteld aan de hand van eilanden. Wat kunnen wij leren van deze werelden in miniatuur?

Promotor: F.J. van Lunteren, E. Jorin

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

More than 5,000 exoplanets have been found over the past couple of decades. These exoplanets show a tremendous diversity, ranging from scorching hot Jupiters, common super-Earths, to widely separated super-Jupiters on the planet/brown dwarf boundary.

Leo Lucassen (hoogleraar Sociale Geschiedenis, Leiden University Institute for History) is onlangs op voordracht van de afdeling Geschiedenis en Archeologie van de Academia Europaea lid geworden van deze Europese academie voor wetenschappen.

Climate change, depletion of natural resources, loss of natural and cultural landscapes, and many other (ecological) sustainability challenges urge us to (re)evaluate human interaction with the natural world. This renewed environmental consciousness has invigorated not only scientists working on effects…