Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: L.P. van Ofwegen; B.W. Hoeksema

Majorana fermions in superconductors are the subgap quasiparticle excitations that are their own antiparticles.

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: J-P. Amorij

In this thesis, we aimed to better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in TNBC progression and metastasis formation and discover new targets to reduce breast cancer related deaths.

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

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

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

From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy.

Almost all bacteria are enveloped by a cell wall that provides cellular protection.

The research described in this thesis shows that hypercholesterolemia, a well-established risk factor for atherosclerosis, can impact skin lipid pool and barrier function already at young age. In the field of atherosclerosis, we showed that the small peptide Lyp-1 can be used as a targeting molecule…

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

The main aim of this thesis was to unravel the signaling and regulatory networks that drive tumor cell migration during breast cancer metastasis.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.W. van der Vaart

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, A. Plaat, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Promotor: J. Kuiper

The redox-conversion reaction of metal-disulfide and metal-thiolate complexes are important, as they may shed light on electron-transfer reactions that often occur in Nature.

This thesis explores the theoretical and observational properties of distant massive galaxies that harbour active black holes in their centres and shine brightly at radio wavelengths.

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

Cathodic corrosion is a relatively unknown phenomenon that can severely etch metallic electrodes at cathodic (negative) potentials.

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.

In this thesis we study bistable reaction-diffusion equations on lattice domains.

Promotor: W. T. F. den Hollander, F. H. J. Redig

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…

Balsaminaceae is a diverse plant family characterized by a huge floral morphological diversity.

This thesis considers multi-prover commitment schemes whose security is based on restrictions on the communication between the provers.

This thesis describes the genetic and prokaryotic diversity of giant barrel sponges.

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

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotores: M.F.E. de Jeu, B. de Pagter

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Heck, Co-Promotor: B.P. Tighe

To address the fundamental questions of how life on Earth emerged and how common life may be in the Universe, it is crucial to know the chemical composition of the planet-forming material.

Inverse problems are problems where we want to estimate the values of certain parameters of a system given observations of the system. Such problems occur in several areas of science and engineering. Inverse problems are often ill-posed, which means that the observations of the system do not uniquely…

Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen

This thesis addresses the chemical processes that determine the compositions of giant planet atmospheres.

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. A. Bouwstra, Prof.dr. W. Jiskoot

Shape and biological function are tightly connected. Physical descriptions are used to connect the shape of a biological system with its function.

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

Synthesis and application of chemical biology tools to study immunomodulatory signaling lipids.

Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is an ubiquitous part of oil refining that ensures that fuels are cleaned of impurities and environment release of pollutants such as SOx and NOx gasses are minimized.

The effective treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge to global health.

Promotores: T.H. Oosterkamp, N. de Jonge

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are used as a current carrying substrate in investigation of current-induced forces in a low-temperature STM (chapter 2).

The application of nanomaterials in industrial processes and consumer products provides many societal benefits, but can also lead to the release of nanomaterials into the environment. The work in this dissertation aims to provide insights into the potential environmental impacts that may follow from…

Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…

In some condensed matter systems, such as the surface of a 3D topological insulator, the electrons are effectively massless and we must necessarily use the massless Dirac equation to describe them.