The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.

De master Literary Studies van de Universiteit Leiden biedt een gespecialiseerde kwalificatie in één van vier talen (Engels, Frans, Duits en Italiaans) en culturen, of een vergelijkend perspectief op literatuur en cultuur. Elk programma biedt veel ruimte voor individuele keuzes.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: R. Fernandez.

SEAtrans: an interdisciplinary research project that aims at studying the dynamics and processes of transitions in society-nature interactions in Southeast Asian societies.

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

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

In this course, you will learn about sustainability and staying with the environmental boundaries of our planet. You will gain an understanding of the effects of growing affluence and population growth, the key challenges we are facing, and ways to influence your direct environment.

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

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

Promotor: J. Zaanen

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.

The research described in this thesis focused on the preparation of S/N functionalized carbene ligands and their transition metal complexes, and the exploration of their application as electrocatalysts for proton reduction.

Metals surfaces form a group of effective catalysts for the reaction of small molecules such as hydrogen (H2).

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Rok Spruk onderzoeken de bijdrage van institutionele hervormingen aan economische groei.

This dissertation investigates the energy and material related impacts of the transition towards a low-carbon heating system in the Netherlands, in the context of its 2050 climate and circular economy policy goals.

This thesis focuses on the synthesis, characterization and performance towards CO2 electroreduction of mono and bi-metallic particles based on p-block metals

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

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The NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’ is hosting a series of e-workshops on the topic of ‘Multilingual Literary Cultures in the Middle Ages’. The program is now available online.

‘De prikkels in de wetenschap zijn net zo pervers als bij de banken’, vindt UMC-bestuurder en immunoloog Frank Miedema. Staan andere belangen goed wetenschappelijk onderzoek inderdaad in de weg? Op maandag 24 maart geeft prof. Miedema een openbare lezing over ‘Science in Transition’.

Submissions are sought for a special issue with Frontiers in Political Science that explores the conceptual and practical aspects of a ‘just’ energy transition both within and beyond Europe. In particular, contributions to the theoretical and interdisciplinary foundations of just transitions, as well…

Mechanical forces are known to play an important role in bacterial colonies. In this dissertation, we study the self-organization at various stages of growing bacterial colonies, and focus on the mechanical effects of cell growth.

Dit onderzoek richt zich op een historisch-sociale analyse van een geselecteerd corpus van romans uit de moderne Turkse literatuur die het thema delen van de migratie van Anatolische steden en dorpen naar Istanbul en de strijd van immigranten in deze stad tegen verschillende uitsluitingsmechanismen.

On 4 and 5 April 2024, the conference "Waterways and Literary Channels of the Premodern World" will take place at Ghent University. The conference is organized within the framework of the Scientific Research Network "Literatures without Borders". Proposals for 20-minute papers, round-table contributions…

In this thesis, we consider various (electro)chemical phenomena at surfaces and nanoparticles and their underlying atomistic processes, which we studied using first-principles methods such as density functional theory.

In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, alumnus Griekse en Latijnse taal en cultuur, heeft dit jaar de Libris Literatuur Prijs gewonnen voor zijn boek La Superba. De Libris Literatuur Prijs geldt als een van de belangrijkste onderscheidingen in de Nederlandstalige literatuur.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander

High-angular-resolution observations of the circumstellar material have uncovered numerous and very diverse substructures in protoplanetary discs, raising the question of whether they are caused by forming planets or other mechanisms.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Deprettere

Using the principles of Industrial Ecology in Environmental Policy making in two cases: transition to a hydrogen economy and chlorinated compounds.

A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique used to visualize the inside of cells and to study specific protein complexes. Within this thesis, I describe the use of various cryo-EM techniques to gain insight into the structural changes of the human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, as it…

Om windturbines en elektrische auto’s te bouwen, hebben we tonnen magneten nodig. Momenteel importeren we die voornamelijk uit China, waardoor Europa voor de energietransitie erg afhankelijk is van deze grootmacht. Daar moet verandering in komen, aldus Industrieel ecoloog René Kleijn. In het project…

De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving is een warm pleidooi voor de maatschappelijke relevantie van literatuur.

Universitair docent Anne Sytske Keijser en Leidse alumni Mark Leenhouts en Silvia Marijnissen hebben de Filter Vertaalprijs 2022 gewonnen. Ze krijgen deze prijs voor hun vertaling van 'De droom van de rode kamer' van Cao Xueqin.

Maar liefst vijf uitgevers wilden haar hebben: Anne van den Dool (1993), derdejaarsstudente Film- en literatuurwetenschap aan de Universiteit Leiden. Na een veiling van haar manuscript koos zij uiteindelijk voor Querido, die haar, naast de publicatie van haar de debuutroman Achterland , ook alvast een…

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?