Van 9 tot 20 oktober 2017 bezocht Stephanie Rap de Rechtenfaculteit van Renmin University in Beijing om een cursus te geven over jeugdstrafrecht en kinderrechten.

Als eerste Nederlandse universiteit sluit de Universiteit Leiden zich aan bij het internationale netwerk Healthy Universities. Leefstijlworkshops, beloningen voor goed gedrag en de nieuwste interventies stimuleren studenten en medewerkers gezonder te leven. De opgedane ervaringen worden weer gebruikt…

Dr. Moritz Jesse, universitair hoofddocent Europees Recht bij het Europa Instituut Leiden, heeft de leden en het publiek van het panel

Bioloog Freek Vonk geeft een hoorcollege over zijn expertise: gif. De Gashouder op het Amsterdamse Westergasterrein is omgetoverd tot een gigantisch biologielokaal waarin Vonk vertelt over zijn meest hachelijke avonturen, het belang van giftige dieren en de medische implicaties van hun kostbaarste bezit.…

Professional scribes in the Middle Ages produced advertisement sheets with which they presented themselves to potential clients. In this lecture Erik Kwakkel will show known and new examples of such advertisement sheets and interpret their importance for our understanding of the culture of writing in…

Solliciteer nu voor de LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim world. De summer school vindt plaats in Leiden van dinsdag 15 augustus 2017 tot en met vrijdag 25 augustus 2017. Solliciteren kan tot vrijdag 16 juni 2017.

Ymre Schuurmans, hoogleraar Staats- en bestuursrecht aan de Universiteit Leiden, verblijft van januari tot en met maart 2020 als gasthoogleraar aan de University of Cape Town (UCT).

Anna Bakker & Luna Tan schreven een artikel voor Kennislink over de wet van Moore. Het artikel schreven zij als eindopdracht in het kader van de Pre-University Classes waarin getalenteerde 5-vwo’ers colleges volgen. Een jury van Kennislinkredacteuren heeft het artikel van aangewezen als het winnende…

Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf gebruikte proefjes en modellen van de Universiteit Leiden voor zijn tv-college over symmetrie, dat live werd uitgezonden op NPO1. Zo liet hij met een DNA-model zien dat ons DNA één specifieke kant op draait en gebruikte hij een Chladni-plaat om de symmetrie van geluid te laten…

Ben je nieuwsgierig hoe een menselijk skelet in elkaar zit? Ontdek dit en meer op 3 oktober in Leiden, en op 4 oktober in Den Haag.

De zon, tientallen enthousiaste wetenschappers en heel, heel veel bezoekende Leidenaren maakten de speciale jubileumeditie van 3 October University tot een groot succes.

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.A.J. Knibbe, Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. K. Allegaert (Leuven)

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a major health threat. Addressing this challenge requires among others the development of new antibacterial compounds. The research described in this thesis focuses on discovering novel antibiotics from soil bacteria, specifically Streptomyces and Paenibacillus.Despite…

This article 'Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership' assesses the role, influence and core aspects of the EU High Representatives’ (HR/VPs) “political leadership” in the context…

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

There is accumulating evidence for an increase in severe global drought events. In particular, Europe experienced several severe droughts in 2003, 2015, and 2018 (unprecedented in the past 2,110 years). Such droughts have caused serious and far-reaching impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.

One of the key discoveries in exoplanet research over the past decade is the abundance of small planets in our Milky Way. Despite their high numbers, our understanding of their atmospheres remains limited, and it is unknown if they possess atmospheres at all.

This dissertation is organised into three parts, each addressing a distinct research area related to Gibbs measures.

Promotor: V. Vitelli, Co-promotor: J. Paulose

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

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.

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

This thesis introduces a relational interaction model and a practical tool for describing, visualising and generating interactive dialogues.

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.

This thesis involves three topics: benchmarking discrete optimization algorithms, empirical analyses of evolutionary computation, and automatic algorithm configuration.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Doelman, Co-promotor: V. Rottschäfer

Ice, the solid state of water, plays an important role on our planet as well as the entire universe.Despite the fact that an individual water molecule has a very simple structure, its chemical bonding in the solid phase can be surprisingly complex.

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

This thesis focuses on the social dimensions of crane and wetland conservation in rural landscapes in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate, Co-promotor: H.W. Slabbekoorn

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Growth and development affect the metabolism of drugs administered to neonates, infants, and children.

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

The applications of studying the early development of insects range from agriculture to material science.

Biopolymer sequencing with graphene edge-based tunnel junctions has the potential to overcome current limitations with the third generation of sequencing based on biological nanopores.

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

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: M. Haverkorn

This thesis systematically analyzes the physical-chemistry of lipid-graphene interactions with the major objective of reconciliating the variety of results reported in the literature.

Lysosomal acid glucosylceramidase (GBA1) is a lysosomal enzyme that degrades glucolipids with its main substrate being glucosylceramide (GlcCer). Defects in the GBA1 gene lead to glycosphingolipidosis Gaucher disease (GD), in which the hydrolysis of GlcCer is impaired and therefore, it accumulates in…

This thesis examines enzyme domain architecture and engineering to improve the breakdown of lignocellulose and starch, abundant biopolymers crucial for sustainable biofuel and biochemical production. Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) facilitate this degradation, but the structural complexity of…

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.

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

With increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and their detrimental effect on the global climate, modern society needs to push for more renewable energy sources. Storing widely accessible and abundant solar energy in chemical bonds in the form of molecular fuel via artificial photosynthesis…

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft