Bij het Beleg van Leiden, in 1574, stierf een derde van de bevolking. Nog jaarlijks herdenkt de stad het einde van deze belegering met hutspot, haring en wittebrood. En Leiden staat niet alleen: steden zijn al duizenden jaren het toneel van strijd.

Papyri in de klas

Alumni-activiteit, Vereniging Oud-Sterrenwachters

GLOBOX is a spatially differentiated multimedia fate, exposure and effect model. It is used for the calculation of spatially differentiated LCA characterisation factors on a global scale.

Moritz Jesse has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In his MIND-EU Project he will focus on a coherent way to teach Migration, Integration, and Non-Discrimination at Leiden Law School at bachelor and master level.

Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Festival

Sinds 2009 behaalden 90 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

What is the population size and social structure in time and space? What is the lion diet and food preference in time and space? What is the home range (MCP and Kernel) and movement in time and space? What are human – lion conflict and responses of lions to traditional herding in time and space? What…

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

Het primaire doel van de leerstoel is het uitvoeren en bevorderen van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de rol van het militaire instrument in hedendaagse conflicten en het verhogen van de kennis daarover in de Nederlandse maatschappij.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Susanna de Beer, universitair hoofddocent aan het Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, en drie studenten van de studie Griekse en Latijnse taal en cultuur zijn geïnterviewd voor een artikel in De Groene Amsterdammer over inclusiviteit en diversiteit in de klassieken

Prof. Dr Thomas van Gulik cum suis en archeoloog dr L. Bouke van der Meer schreven over hepatoscopie onder de Etrusken, het ‘lezen’ van de lever met als doel de toekomst te voorspellen. Het artikel verscheen in het tijdschrift Lever, van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Hepatologie.

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

How can we quantify the density of species within a community through environmental DNA concentrations?

The project falls in the context of the EU Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (COM(2005)670). The Institute for Environment and Resources (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed three sets of decoupling indicators. Such indicators require the definition of a…

Research

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

Accumulation of metals in economy and environment and its associated risks, within the Netherlands and the EU.

How do nanoparticles bioaccumulate and biodistribute in organisms?

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

In deze masterspecialisatie volg je naast de Nederlandstalige kerncursus en scriptieseminar een aantal Engelstalige vakken en keuzeseminars. In het programma is naast de politiekwetenschappelijke inhoud ook aandacht voor onderzoeksvaardigheden.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

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

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

In this thesis we investigated the ability of two-photon multifocal microscopy for single-molecule microscopy in live cells and organisms.

Quantum hardware comes with a different computing paradigm and new ways to tackle applications. Much effort has to be put into understanding how to leverage this technology to give real-world advantages in areas of interest for industries such as combinatorial optimization or machine learning.

The book ‘Bestrijdingsmiddelen en Milieu' gives a transparent overview of facts and figures concerning pesticide use in the Netherlands and the impact of pesticides on the environment.

The focus of the dissertation

What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotor: B. de Smit

With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

Understanding how galaxies form, interact, and evolve comes largely from comparing theory predictions with observational data. Numerical simulations of galaxies provide the most accurate approach to testing the theory, as they follow the non-linear evolution of gas and dark matter in great detail and…

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew