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.

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…

Per toeval stuitte student Nederlandse taal en cultuur Evi Dijcks op een gedicht van een voor haar onbekend dichtgenootschap. Toen ook haar docente het genootschap niet kende, wisten ze dat dit een onderzoek waard zou zijn. In Trouw vertelt Evi over haar bijzondere ontdekking van een zeer exclusief…

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…

'Hé kijk, daar staat Rembrandt van Rijn! En is dat niet Beatrix?' Als je goed zoekt loop je tijdens de 444-vossenjacht op 29 juni allerlei beroemdheden uit heden en verleden tegen het lijf.

Oekraïners zijn nazi’s en mensen uit het Westen satanisten aldus Russische propaganda. Egbert Fortuin vindt dat we de propaganda serieus moeten nemen.

De onderzoeksgroep Organizational & Entrepreneurial Behavior onderzoekt het gedrag van individuen en groepen die in organisaties werken, organisaties starten, of organisaties leiden, met als doel om organisatorische praktijken te informeren. Door zich te concentreren op het gedrag van (groepen) werknemers,…

Er waren opvallend veel internationale thema’s op de Longlist Libris Geschiedenisprijs dit jaar, waaronder het boek 'De B.V. Noord-Korea. Een kernmacht in de marge' van hoogleraar Remco Breuker en 'De Avant-gardisten. De Russische Revolutie in de kunst, 1917-1935' van alumnus Sjeng Scheijen.

Op de LION/Sterrewacht nieuwjaarsborrel heeft prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp de 2016 Hendrik Casimir Prize uitgereikt aan natuurkundestudenten Andrea Peña (Leiden) en Jorrit Hortensius (Delft). The Casimir Research School deelt jaarlijks de Hendrik Casimir Prize uit aan de beste masterstudenten in (technische)…

Promotie

De Braziliaanse president Jair Bolsonaro noemde COVID-19

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?

In 2012 the Pascal chair of the Faculty of Science of Leiden University, and particular of Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), will be held by Prof. Dr. Kyle Gallivan, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, USA.

LUC is the first to confer the diploma of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, the new Faculty name since January 2016 making this graduation an extra special occasion.

Dr. Bela Bode ontvangt van de Alexander von Humboldt-stichting de Feodor Lynen onderzoeksbeurs voor de ontwikkeling van nieuwe methoden voor verbetering van het signaal in de vaste stof NMR. Hij streeft naar een specifiek analytisch instrument voor oppervlakte-studies en onderzoek over membranen en…

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

On 30 October 2020, Dr Mark Noort successfully defended his PhD investigation at the London School of Economics and political science (LSE) into

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data

Viral diseases constitute one of the major challenges in modern medicine. Membrane-targeting have broad-spectrum potential and could distinguish viral membranes from the host cell plasma membrane by the difference in membrane curvature.

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, which holds the potential to simulate complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical numerical methods.Despite recent formidable advancements in quantum hardware, constructing a quantum computer capable of performing useful calculations remains challenging.In…

Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. J. de Vries

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

Sustainable energy from wind and solar is most readily available near the sea.