Ze trotseerde op het nippertje de bureaucratie en stond dagenlang te hengelen naar kabeljauw. Mariene bioloog Inge van der Knaap ontdekte in de Noordzee dat lawaai het gedrag van vissen flink verstoort. ‘Er is nu veel aandacht voor geluid onder water.’

Banken ondernemen pas actie tegen het faciliteren van geldstromen uit risicolanden als de fiscale osporingsdienst FIOD hen dreigt met forse boetes. Die oorlogstaal is kennelijk nodig om de banken op het juiste pad te houden, stelt hoogleraar Forensische Accountancy Marcel Pheijffer.

An assessment approach that tailors to children’s instructional needs

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

A novel mathematical model describes spatial-temporal drug distribution within one or more brain units, which are cubic representations of a piece of brain tissue with brain capillaries at the edges.

This thesis focuses on protoplanetary disks: flattened structures of gas and dust around young stars in which planets are expected to form and grow.

Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries

In this thesis, we aimed to better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in TNBC progression and metastasis formation and discover new targets to reduce breast cancer related deaths.

At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).

Het doel van dit project is om een duidelijk overzicht te krijgen van duurzaamheidsinspanningen die binnen de faculteiten worden gedaan, evenals het leggen van blijvende verbindingen tussen universiteitsmedewerkers en studenten die bij deze inspanningen betrokken zijn. Het Leiden University Green Office…

Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are a group of orphan diseases characterized by lysosomal dysfunction or impaired lysosomal catabolism and affect collectively about 1 in 5000 live births.

Remus Dame

Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

Het twaalver-sjiisme speelde een centrale rol in de these en antithese waaruit de islam ontstond, en is vandaag de dag nog steeds zeer invloedrijk. Het doel van project ImBod is om de eerste complete sociale geschiedenis van het imamaat te schrijven.

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

Multiple stars, that is two or more stars composing a gravitationally bound system, are common in the universe.

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that a measurement collapses a wavefunction onto an eigenstate of the corresponding measurement operator.

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

Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

Advanced sensing techniques require graphene with high quality and well-controlled surface chemistry.

BSc-programma’s: ‘Political Science’, ‘International Relations and Organisations’. MSc-opleiding: Political Science, met specialisaties ‘International Organisation’; ‘Dutch Politics; ‘Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Development’; ‘International Politics’; ‘Political Legitimacy and Justice’; ‘Democracy…

To this day, all cyclophellitol-based inhibitors and ABPs have been close analogues of their natural substrate counterparts. As a result, these probes showed high selectivity towards their target glycosidases.

Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?

De minor Creative Strategies for a Society in Change (CSSC) legt een verbinding tussen het verkrijgen van inzicht in creatieve maakprocessen en het verkennen van maatschappelijke problematieken die kenmerkend zijn voor onze tijd.

Het Brain and Education lab is een onderzoeksgroep van het Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen aan de Universiteit Leiden en maakt deel uit van het Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC). Ons onderzoek richt zich op de ontwikkeling van cognitieve processen die betrokken zijn bij leren en academische…

The focus throughout this thesis will be on gathering fundamental studies of the detailed structure and composition of the electrode/electrolyte interface effect on the rate and mechanism of key electrocatalytic reactions.

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.

As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron, Co-Promotor: M.T.M. Emmerich

The sequence-dependence of biomolecular interactions involving nucleic acids and proteins is essential for numerous processes inside the cell. Insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms have been obtained using various biochemical and biophysical methods on two different levels — bulk and sin…

Doordat markten in toenemende mate zijn geïnternationaliseerd, zijn (sub-)nationale toezichthouders ook steeds vaker internationaal actief. Binnen vormen van internationale netwerksamenwerking wisselen deze toezichthouders onderling informatie uit en onderhandelen ze over internationale standaarden…

Promotores: J. Kok, M. Chaudron (Chalmers University)

This thesis is dedicated to the exploration of the primordial dark ages: unknown physics during the earliest stages of the Universe’s expansion that have not yet been directly probed by observations. Cosmic inflation is a burst of exponential expansion of space after the “Big Bang”.

The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.

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

Promotoren: R. Tijdeman, A.K. Lenstra, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

This thesis examines the link between simple molecules and the underlying structure and chemistry within protoplanetary disks - the birthplaces of planets.

Interactive exploration of large volumes of data is increasingly common, as data scientists attempt to extract interesting information from large opaque data sets. This scenario presents a difficult challenge for traditional database systems, as (1) nothing is known about the query workload in advance,…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Humans and songbirds learn their vocalizations early in life by exposure to the vocalizations of adult conspecifics. Often, better learning outcomes are achieved with live, social, tutors than with audio-only exposure to vocalizations.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Promotor: H.P. Spaink, Co-Promotor: A.H. Meijer

Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie in Leiden staat bekend om haar internationaal georiënteerde expertise. Met een breed scala aan theoretische, methodologische en regionale onderwerpen, biedt de opleiding een sterk gefundeerd en verdiepend programma.

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

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