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

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

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

Lipid signaling is an essential biological event/process in a plethora of pathophysiological conditions. The underlying idea of this thesis is that many of the roles and the complex interplay of the individual signaling lipids in inflammatory processes and related conditions in health and disease is…

Promotores: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, P.M. Brakefield, Co-Promotor: M. Bruinsma

This thesis presents insights from our study of various correlated electron systems with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In ordinary metals, electron-electron interactions exist, but get substantially screened due to the sheer number of electrons.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: D. Claessen

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

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.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Biological cells, the basic building blocks of all life forms, are surrounded by a lipid membrane. More than half of the membrane is occupied by membrane proteins, which can regulate the cell functionality through specific arrangements.

Promotor: B. vd Water, T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

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

The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.

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

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

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: H.V.J. Linnartz

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

The haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) comprise about 4000 species distributed over a wide range of habitats, with great gametophytic and sporophytic morphological variation. Their monophyly is well supported by the results of several molecular phylogenetic studies, which shed light on their relationships…

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

Galaxies in the Universe are distributed along the intricate framework of the Cosmic Web. Groups and clusters of galaxies comprise the densest regions in this network, and therefore, are excellent cosmic laboratories to study different aspects of galaxy evolution in extreme environments.

Het doel van het RAISE Onderzoek is om te onderzoeken hoe veerkrachtige mensen omgaan met stress. We kijken specifiek naar hoe belangrijke biologische systemen, zoals de HPA-as en het immuunsysteem, samenwerken met de hersenen en de sociale omgeving om veerkrachtig functioneren na moeilijkheden in de…

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

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

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

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

More than 5,000 exoplanets have been found over the past couple of decades. These exoplanets show a tremendous diversity, ranging from scorching hot Jupiters, common super-Earths, to widely separated super-Jupiters on the planet/brown dwarf boundary.

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

Innovation plays an essential role in firms' competitiveness and long-term success. It varies from different types, ranging from run-of-the-mill innovation that brings incremental changes to existing technologies to radical innovation that breaks from existing trajectories.

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Smets, M. Stech

Human vocal communication and music perception represent advanced cognitive skills, seemingly innate and universal. These faculties encompass a range of perceptual and cognitive abilities. Cross-species research sheds light on the origins of musicality by investigating whether these traits are shared…

Metabolomics has the potential to play a pivotal role in understanding disease onset and progression, and ultimately personalized treatments. One of its major challenges is its large-scale implementation, which is necessary to deal with the high variability of the metabolome. In this work we have developed…

Alles wat jij moet weten over de minor Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media op een rijtje.

Archeoloog Gerrit Dusseldorp legt op de 3 October University uit hoe de moderne mens zich de afgelopen kwart miljoen jaar geleden met horten en stoten in Afrika ontwikkelde. En hoe dat ertoe leidde dat we nu op 3 October haring bij het wittebrood eten. Wie is Gerrit Dusseldorp?

De titel van de lezing is ‘On the Emergence of Space and Gravity’, de lezing is openbaar, Engelstalig en duurt speciaal voor deze gelegenheid een half uur, i.p.v. van het gebruikelijke kwartier voor de This Week’s Discoveries lezingen.

Geesteswetenschappen, Centre for the Arts in Society

On the 7th and 8th of November, Radboud University and Utrecht University are jointly organising a masterclass for (Re)MA students and PhD candidates on the life and times of those lay people dependent on monasteries.

Festival

Binnen de Faculteit der Archeologie onderzoeken we de ontwikkeling van menselijke samenlevingen wereldwijd, vanaf het allervroegste begin tot en met de moderne tijd. Ook bestuderen we het erfgoed dat aan deze diepe geschiedenis van de mensheid herinnert en dat samenbindende en leerzame boodschappen…

Wouter Linmans promoveerde aan de Universiteit Leiden op het proefschrift ‘De oorlog van morgen. Nederlandse beeldvorming van een volgende oorlog in 1918-1940’. Hij onderzocht hoe mensen in het interbellum in Nederland dachten dat een volgende oorlog eruit zou gaan zien. Waar waren ze bang voor?

The ERC project Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe (EMERGENCE), led by Thijs Porck (Leiden University) is hiring 1 postdoctoral researcher and 2 PhD's. Details on the individual projects can be found below. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024.

Joris van den Tol, docent International Studies, heeft een NWO Rubiconbeurs gekregen om twee jaar lang onderzoek te doen aan Harvard University (Verenigde Staten). Hij zal onderzoeken hoe 17e-eeuwse Nederlandse handelaren en Engelse plantagehouders samenwerkten in een trans-Atlantische lobbyallianti…

VWO leerlingen Hine en Sierk hebben onder begeleiding van de internationaal bekende Leidse onderzoekers Bas Nefs en Ignas Snellen onderzoek gedaan naar de eigenschappen van exoplaneten.

Wat is Duits? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt dat een simpele vraag, maar schijn bedriegt. Berusten onze vooroordelen en stereotypen op waarheid? En hoe zit het met de verschillen tussen Nederland en Duitsland, of juist de overeenkomsten? De gemotiveerde scholieren die deelnemen aan de PRE-Class ‘Duitse…