Promotie

In this study the flows of PVC and its additives through the Swedish Society were followed from the cradle to the grave (from production to waste treatment).

Studievoorlichting

Hoe ervaren mensen in het Noorden van Mongolië sociale en culturele veranderingen twintig jaar na de postsocialistische overgang? Cultureel antropoloog Richard Fraser beweert op basis van langdurig onderzoek in Mongolië dat dit helemaal niet duidelijk is. In zijn proefschrift ontwikkelt hij een nieuw…

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

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).

The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

This thesis describes the structural and biochemical characterization of the β-lactamase BlaC from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and the Alr and YlmE proteins from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).Mtb is the main cause of tuberculosis.

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Promotie

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

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

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

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

Een interdisciplinaire culturele analyse van de manier waarop de Hindoestaanse dubbele migratie hedendaagse identificatieprocessen beïnvloedt en de juxtapositie van traditie en moderniteit problematiseert.

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: G.K. Miley

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

Congres/symposium

De Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid deelt met trots mee dat Professor Ann Skelton, hoogleraar Kinderrechten in een duurzame wereld en voorzitter van het Kinderrechtencomité van de Verenigde Naties, een eredoctoraat is toegekend door de University of Strathclyde. Deze prestigieuze erkenning is een eerbetoon…

Since its beginnings, Leiden University has been home to scholars with a broad and diverse expertise in the histories, languages, literatures and material cultures relevant to the study of Jews and Judaism from antiquity to modern times.

The department of CADS adheres to the Leiden University Research Data Management Regulations and to the international principles for FAIR data.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

Early time-resolved experiments by Frauenfelder on the ensemble of the kinetic rebinding of CO to myoglobin molecules resulted in a stretched exponential relaxa-tion due to a very large spread of the reaction rates of individual molecules.

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

Studievoorlichting, Proefstudeerdag

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

Bart Barendregt krijgt een Vici beurs Voor zijn onderzoeksproject ‘Eén tussen de Nullen, een Antropologie van Artificial Intelligence in Islam’.

Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data