It is an established fact that the Standard Model has to be extended to explain the so-called Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) phenomena: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and neutrino flavour oscillations.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks

Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?

Op 23 februari 2022 verdedigde Cale Davis het proefschrift 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. C. Stahn en dr. J.C. Powderly.

Time-series forecasting through modelling sequences of temporally dependent observations has many industrial and scientific applications. While machine learning models have been widely used to create time-series forecasting models, creating efficient and performant time-series forecasting models is…

Leiden is een echte studentenstad. Meld je aan voor een studievereniging of studentenvereniging om van jouw studietijd een onvergetelijke tijd te maken!

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

The overarching goal of this thesis is to set the foundations, but also make the first essential steps towards establishing a comprehensive, mesoscopic, hydrodynamic theory of epithelial tissues. The stage is set by an exhaustive study of topological defects in passive p-atic liquid crystals, singularities…

Alumni-activiteit, New York

We are very excited to announce our Sustainability Series for 2023-2024. Each month an interactive workshop will be organised that discusses a specific theme of sustainability. Interested about sustainability? Do not hesitate to sign up to our events !

Hieronder kun je een antwoord vinden op de meestgestelde vragen over de master. Wordt jouw vraag niet beantwoord? Neem gerust contact met ons op voor een gepersonaliseerd antwoord via: masterhas@lumc.nl.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

In this dissertation non-parametric Bayesian methods are used in the application of robotic vision.

LIACS is a partner in the EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development for the Asian education system. The knowledge available in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence education will be shared and adapted for the Asian market.

How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?

Over several decades, a variety of computational methods for drug discovery have been proposed and applied in practice. With the accumulation of data and the development of machine learning methods, computational drug design methods have gradually shifted to a new paradigm, i.e. deep learning methods…

Developing methodes to understand the evolution of patches in natural ecosystems

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

A linguistic prehistory of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China

Participants in this course will learn to support student teachers and new colleagues in their professional development as teachers, with particular emphasis on the context of bilingual or international education, as in the ICLON World Teachers Programme (WTP).

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

Description of Atlas of the surfacewater concentrations of pesticides in the Netherlands, a pilotstudy.

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

Do e-waste workers display enhanced effects of adverse health effects due to informal e-waste processing in Nigeria? Is there a difference between the health outcomes of the exposed and the control groups? Are there difference in health effects within and between job groups (collectors, dismantlers,…

What is the population size/structure and distribution of tiger and leopard inside the Bardia National Park (BNP) compared with the population outside? What is the movement and home range and conflict pattern in time and space of tigers and leopards inside the BNP compared with outside? What constitutes…

The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

How do nanoparticles bioaccumulate and biodistribute in organisms?

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…

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

Hieronder vind je de antwoorden op een aantal veelgestelde vragen over toelating tot de klinische specialisaties van de Master Psychologie.

De YAL laat zich horen over beleidskwesties.

Op 3 november vond in het Wijnhavengebouw de allereerste FGGA PhD-Conference plaats. Georganiseerd door de facultaire Graduate School en uiteraard bedoeld voor promovendi. Een kleine dertig van hen waren aanwezig.

The Academic Language Center is online and expanding!

Friday 30 January 2015 were the final presentations of the last course of the Minor Sustainable Development.

Als mannelijke parkieten met succes een puzzeldoosje met voedsel kunnen openen, worden ze aantrekkelijker voor vrouwtjes. Slimheid lijkt dus een rol te spelen bij partnerkeuze. Gedragsbioloog Carel ten Cate publiceert hierover op 11 januari samen met Chinese collega’s in het gezaghebbende wetenschappelijk…

CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from all disciplines. It is happy to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 (27-29 September 2021) and calls for the submission of extended abstracts.…

Technology can drive peace and justice. Innovative solutions increasingly make use of new types of data, mobile technologies and social media. Big or small (data), high-tech or low-tech: the challenge is to maximise the benefits while minimising the risks that come with the so-called data revolution…

Gouden nanodeeltjes vormen een nuttig hulpmiddel om enzymen en andere moleculen beter te begrijpen. Biswajit Pradhan, promovendus aan het Leiden Institute of Physics, gebruikt gouden nanostaafjes om individuele moleculen te bestuderen die op andere manieren lastig te detecteren zijn. De resulterende…

Jeroen Bussmann ontdekte een nieuwe manier om te zorgen dat nanodeeltjes die medicijnen op een specifieke plek in het lichaam moeten brengen, niet te vroeg worden afgebroken in de lever. Uiteenlopende media berichtten over zijn ontdekking.

De hersenen van adolescenten reageren sterker op het ontvangen van beloningen. Dat kan leiden tot risicogedrag, maar heeft volgens Leids onderzoek ook een positieve functie: het maakt het leren gemakkelijker. De publicatie in Nature Communications leidde tot veel media-aandacht.

Kun jij het, drie minuten gloedvol vertellen over je bèta- of geneeskunde-onderzoek? Meld je dan aan voor de Leidse voorronde van de internationale wetenschapscompetitie FameLab. De inschrijving is geopend.

Wat te denken van een beter liefdesleven in 30 minuten. Kom naar de Nacht van Ontdekkingen en bekijk de tijd door de ogen van zes Leidse psychologen. De tijd van je leven, dat gaat toch iedereen aan? Meer weten over emoties bij mensapen? Persoonlijke tips om beter de weg te vinden? Voel de tijd in muziek…

Launch your own start-up!

New master specialisation: Economics and Governance

The NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) awarded prof. Joost van Batenburg with the Vici grant 2015 for his research project ‘Real-time 3D Tomography’.

A warm welcome to the students of the Master’s Programme in European Law 2018-2019. This year, we expect around 60 students who will start this LL.M. programme, organised by the Europa Institute. Our faculty staff is excited to meet you and to teach you all aspects of European Law.

Van collegebank tot raadszetel. In aanloop naar de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen 14, 15 en 16 maart 2022 stellen we FGGA-studenten en alumni die in hun gemeente op de kandidatenlijst staan, aan je voor. Welke ambities hebben ze? Wat heeft hun studie aan hun politieke werk bijgedragen en waar zien ze zichzelf…