Promotor: Prof.dr. V. Icke, Co-Promotor: T.I. Madura

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.

Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.

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

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

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

We present an extensive study of methods for exactly solving stochastic constraint (optimisation) problems (SCPs) in network analysis. These problems are prevalent in science, governance and industry.

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

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…

The overall objectives of my thesis are to investigate the dynamics of the sorghum root microbiome and to explore the beneficial effects of the root microbiome on sorghum growth and stress tolerance.

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

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, A. Enge Co-Promotor: T.C. Streng

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester

We study the interplay of topology and geometry with chirality for several passive and active systems, employing both analytical and numerical methods.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

For each living organism health is ensured by correct functioning of its cells. Cells therefore have elaborate methods for regulation of their proteins.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

Promotor: Jelle S. Kaastra Co-promotor: Jelle de Plaa

This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

Source: Structure , Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 1120-1139 (2014)

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

With the help of quantum mechanics, digital quantum hardware may be able to tackle some of the problems that are too difficult for ordinary computers. But despite these expectations and the ongoing effort of the research community, reliable quantum computers are not yet realized in a lab setting.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets. Co-promotores: B. Gravendeel, F. Pupulin

Mining time series is a machine learning subfield that focuses on a particular data structure, where variables are measured over (short or long) periods of time.

The rapidly increasing commercial application of metallic nanoparticles within products will inevitably enhance the amount of NPs being released into soil.

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a tomographic 3D imaging technique used for specimens in the millimetre scale.

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

This thesis focuses on important life history traits and their trade-offs using two hexapod models. Particularly, the trade-off between immune defense and embryonic developmental speed is a central theme of this study.

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

Promotores: J.N. Kok, H.J. Hoogeboom

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

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

The type-IV secretion system (T4SS) is a machinery able to transfer DNA and proteins between bacteria and in certain cases also to eukaryotic cells.

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).

Radiography is an important technique to inspect objects, with applications in airports and hospitals. X-ray imaging is also essential in industry, for instance in food safety checks for the presence of foreign objects.

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: C.M. Soares, A.J. Knobbe

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…

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

Promotors: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. H. Leirs (Univ. Antwerpen)

The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.