Op 3 december 2019 verdedigde Hanna Bosdriesz haar proefschrift 'Furthering the fight against impunity in Latin America: the contributions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to domestic accountability processes'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik…

Evolutie is elke dag om je heen. Dat is de boodschap van de nieuwe Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) van de Universiteit Leiden en Naturalis die 19 september van start gaat.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

This thesis pioneers diatom molecular identification and quantification through genome-scale methods, with four key aims: (i) reviewing DNA/RNA sequencing methods in aquatic biomonitoring to highlight their strengths and limitations;

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

Radio jets are important to the evoultion of galaxies. However, it is still not fully understood how a radio jet can be triggered.

In 'Humans of Honours' staat telkens een medewerker, student of alumnus van de Honours Academy centraal. Deze keer: Marleen Fleers (24), student-assistent internationalisering.

In the current global context, there is a pressing need to address sustainable energy supplies to safeguard our Planet and its ecosystems. The choices made by human society have a significant impact on genetic evolution and climate.

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…

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

This dissertation studies the Asymptotics of Bayesian nonparametric inference for Gaussian linear models.

In this dissertation iron-based homogeneous catalysts were synthesized, characterized and investigated for water oxidation activity.

Climate change is one of the largest challenges faced by humanity. To combat this research into alternatives to fossil fuels is ongoing. Dihydrogen is considered a good alternative fuel, since its burning only forms water.

Hybrid zones occur where two species meet and produce offspring (hybrids). Typically, hybrids show a considerable reduction in fitness. In this thesis two hybrid zones are treated.

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond

Stefan Buijsman (21) is filosofiedoctor aan de Universiteit van Stockholm. 'Door Honours veranderde ik van studierichting.'

Louise Verboeket (23, onderwijs- en onderzoeksmedewerker bij de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid van Universiteit Maastricht). ‘Bij de Honours Academy kun je het verschil maken.’

To design the ideal water oxidation catalyst, understanding of the catalytic mechanism and decomposition pathways is essential.

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…

Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé

In 'Humans of Honours' staat telkens een medewerker, student of alumnus van de Honours Academy centraal. Deze keer: honoursstudent Hine van Os (24). Hine loopt coschappen. 'Arts lijkt me een prachtig beroep, maar voorlopig wil ik me meer richten op onderzoek.'

A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.

This thesis deals with the use of sound in interactions in the context of participatory systems and data sonification. We investigate an interactive environment where participants perceive information of the data through sound elements.

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.

One of the key quests in astronomy is to study the growth and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Radio observations provide a powerful means of studying the formation of stars and subsequent buildup of distant galaxies, in a way that is unbiased by the presence of dust.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Co-Promotor: Rychard Bouwens

Taal is een beetje als een mobiele telefoon. We gebruiken het de hele tijd, maar eigenlijk weten we helemaal niet zo goed hoe het nou precies werkt. Waar zit taal eigenlijk in ons hoofd? Hebben alle mensen taal? Deze en vele andere vragen worden beantwoord door professor Marc van Oostendorp in de MOOC…

β-Lactamases are enzymes that can break down β-lactam substrates, such as antibiotics, preventing the use of these antibiotics for the treatment of various infectious diseases. However, some compounds, β-lactamase inhibitors, can block these enzymes allowing for possible treatments using a combination…

Freshwater and brackish water ecosystems are arguably the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth, due to concentrated human developments in and around them. The Pontocaspian (PC) region located at the border of Europe and Asia contains a variety of brackish water ecosystems and unique inhabitants, known…

Lisette de Heiden (25) werkt voor Shell en is reservist bij de landmacht. 'Doe nooit iets alleen voor je cv.'

Een internationaal onderzoeksteam metgedragsbioloog Katharina Riebel als hoofdonderzoeker en twee internationale medewerkers ontving een Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) beurs voor het hun onderzoeksvoorstel ‘Seeing voices’: the role of multimodal cues in vocal learning.

Outflows are crucially important for the gas budget and evolution of luminous star-forming galaxies and AGNs, with observed mass outflow rates of the same order as the star formation rate. Greater star formation and black hole growth lead to more intense feedback and outflows, resulting in self-regulated…

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

Developing methodes to understand the evolution of patches in natural ecosystems

Within the field of astronomy, understanding how galaxies grow and evolve from the Big Bang to the present day is a challenging and complex question.

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.H. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H.Hoekstra

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

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.

In this thesis it is posed that the central object of preference discovery is a co-creative process in which the Other can be represented by a machine. It explores efficient methods to enhance introverted intuition using extraverted intuition's communication lines.

Op dinsdag 23 mei 2017 verdedigt Jasmina Mackic haar proefschrift ‘Proving discriminatory violence at the European Court of Human Rights’. De verdediging begint om 15.00 uur, in het Academiegebouw van de Universiteit Leiden, Rapenburg 73. De promotor is vice-decaan en hoogleraar internationaal publiekrecht…

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

Vandaag bezochten 425 unieke masterkiezers de halfjaarlijkse Masterdag op de Faculteit W&N, voor de tweede keer inclusief een Minorenmarkt. Nieuw dit jaar was de scheikunde labtour.

Op 21 juni gaf Ingrid Leijten een lezing bij het Centre for Human Rights van de Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) in Duitsland. Bij het interdisciplinaire CHREN hoort een Masterprogramma in Human Rights waar studenten uit de hele wereld aan deelnemen.

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.