To study how planetary systems come into existence we study much younger systems still in formation.

Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Eliel, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

Politicoloog Rebekah Tromble (Universiteit Leiden) en sociolinguist Dirk Hovy (Universiteit van Copenhagen) analyseren hoeveel vijandigheid en sexisme Clinton heeft te verduren op Twitter en waar de aanvallen op haar persoon vandaan komen.

Promotor: E.R. Eliel, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

Promotor: Koen Kuijken Co-promotor: Henk Hoekstra

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

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…

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.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

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

Phospholipase A/acyltransferase 3 (PLAAT3) and PLAAT4 are enzymes involved in the synthesis of bioactive lipids. Despite sequential and structural similarities, the two enzymes differ in activity and specificity.

The research of the Applied Mathematics cluster is concerned with such diverse topics as dynamical systems, representation theory, differential equations and pattern recognition.

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

This thesis describes the role of pollution, specifically neonicotinoid insecticides, as an actor of the ongoing biodiversity decline.

We explored the Universe using weak gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that occurs when light from distant galaxies is bent by the gravitational fields of closer cosmic objects, much like how a lens distorts light.

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.

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

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

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.

Promotor: J. Zaanen

Sewer pipes are an essential infrastructure in modern society and their proper operation is important for public health. To keep sewer pipes operational as much as possible, periodical inspections for defects are performed.

This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

Including modelling as part of software development appears to have various benefits.

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-Promotor: L.W. Chatrou

Promotores: F.H. van Lunteren, F.P. Israel

Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

With tomography it is possible to reconstruct the interior of an object without destroying.

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Despite the history of studies on methanol formation from CO2, the dominant elementary reaction steps that constitute the chemical mechanism for this catalyzed process are not determined.

Galaxies are environments where gas coalesces, cools, and is converted into stars. However, it remains unclear the exact mechanisms through which galaxies acquire, redistribute and lose their gas.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

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

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

The thesis addresses the long-term dynamical evolution of hierarchical multiple systems.