Op de Veluwe en Utrechtse heuvelrug zijn in een recordtempo meer dan duizend prehistorische grafheuvels in kaart gebracht. Dit alles door de inzet van duizenden vrijwilligers.

De rijke cultuur van het historische, Zuid-Amerikaanse volk is geen ver-van-mijn-bedshow, laat een schitterende, meer etnografische dan kunsthistorische expositie in het Leidse Museum Volkenkunde zien. Archeoloog Martin Berger was als conservator betrokken bij de ontwikkeling van de Azteken-tentoonstelling…

The studies described in this thesis deal with glycosidases, in particular alpha-galactosidases.

Op 19 augustus bereikte ons het droevige bericht dat onze lieve collega Johanna Stöger, omringd door haar familie, is overleden. Hanna was al enige tijd ziek. Tot dit voorjaar echter leek ze, na een geslaagde operatie en behandeling vorig jaar, al snel weer helemaal de oude. Het is vreselijk dat ze…

The project

This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

This course explores international arbitration as one of the most common methods of international dispute settlement. You will gain an in-depth understanding of international arbitration through the analysis of its role as a mechanism of dispute settlement, its institutions, the fields of law it is…

In this thesis, we describe the potential of cell mechanical phenotyping for immune cell characterization, diagnosis, drug testing, as well as treatment of disease.

Discover the master program population Health Management at Leiden University and contribute to a more integrated health care system. Learn more!

Forensisch archeologe Hayley Mickleburgh heeft de eerste Nationale Postdocprijs gewonnen. De prijs wordt uitgereikt door De Jonge Akademie en de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. Mickleburgh, die bestudeert hoe lijken vergaan en skeletten uit elkaar vallen, ontvangt 10.000 euro…

Lezing, Publieke lezing

This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.

Artificial intelligence algorithms govern in subtle, yet fundamental ways, the way we live and are transforming our societies. The promise of efficient, low‐cost or ‘neutral’ solutions harnessing the potential of big data has led public bodies to adopt algorithmic systems in the provision of public…

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

It researches (the possibilities for) the development of a set of principles and best practices for insolvency office holders by comparing multilateral treaties and soft law recommendations and national legislation within Europe.

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

The aim of our research program is to better understand the aetiology and course of mood, anxiety and trauma and stressor-related disorders and to test and improve treatments for these disorders.

Promoter: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promoter: Todor P. Stefanov

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law.

The coursework within the Science Communication and Society (SCS) specialisation prepares students for internships and a career in communication about science and health.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn & Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

Microbial rhodopsins are photosensitive pigments implemented in the growth and adaptation of a large population of microorganisms.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

Heart failure is a major health care problem with high mortality.

The electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an essential half-reaction for the utilization of hydrogen as a sustainable fuel, via the conversion of hydrogen to electrons and protons facilitated by the ORR. In the most common fuel cells, the ORR is requires high loadings of non-abundant platinum…

Aan de opleidingen van het Centre for Professional Learning op het gebied van Terrorisme, Recht en Veiligheid zijn verschillende (research) fellows verbonden. De fellows geven advies over de inhoud van het curriculum en de verbinding tussen wetenschap en praktijk.

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Evelien Campfens het proefschrift 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof.dr. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).

Organic molecules in interstellar space are important as they influence the structure of galaxies and star formations. Studying catalytic processes in space allows us to understand how molecular species are formed and chemically evolved in the interstellar medium and solar system objects.

The main focus of the thesis is the discovery and development of novel inhibitors of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs).

Diverse types of exoplanets such as gas giants on close-in orbits (hot Jupiters) and young massive giants on wide orbits (super Jupiters), with no analogs in the Solar System, pose challenges but also opportunities to our understanding of planet formation and evolution.

The last decades it is increasingly recognized that acute as well as chronic postoperative pain is an important problem. Treatment and prevention of postoperative pain is a challenge, especially in special patient populations where there is only limited guidance on how to optimally use opioids.

The goal of the project is the development of stream mining techniques for complex patterns such as graphs. We will try to extend the existing state-of-the-art techniques into two, orthogonal directions: on the one hand, the mining of more complex patterns in streams, such as sequential patterns and…

Statistical considerations guide the design and implementation of the experiments that scientists perform. For instance, in a clinical trial about a the efficacy of a treatment, its effect in a certain minimum amount of patients has to be observed in order to make confident assertions about the efficacy…

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

The lysosomal β-glucosidase named glucocerebrosidase (GCase) is a retaining β-glucosidase that hydrolyzes the glycosphingolipid glucosylceramide (GlcCer) to ceramide and glucose at acid pH.

Promotor: G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: B. Metz

The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

New drugs for use as tuberculosis (TB) treatment are needed due to the constrains of classical antibiotics against TB and the rise of antibiotic-resistant strains, making TB a harder and harder disease to treat.

Assessing the risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) solely on the basis of experimental assays is time-consuming, resource intensive, and constrained by ethical considerations (such as the principles of the 3Rs of animal testing). The adoption of computational toxicology in this field is a high p…

Between the early thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries CE, the Sultanate of Cairo affected the balances of power elites across and beyond the regions of Egypt, Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean. Modern historiography has for a long time been determined by the idea of this sultanate as a highly…

In de Smaakstudio in het Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam bereidt archeologe Joanita Vroom gerechten uit middeleeuwse kookboeken. Wat vinden wij in deze tijd van de smaken van toen? NRC Handelsblad liep mee met Vroom.

In een afgesloten ruimte in het Van Steenisgebouw staan honderden dozen onder TL-lichten te wachten tot iemand ze komt bekijken. De wirwar van handgeschreven en gedrukte labels verraadt hoe vaak de collectie al is gereorganiseerd, verhuisd en opnieuw ingedeeld. Dozen vol potscherven en aardewerk, menselijke…

De Romeinse politicus Cicero was een briljant staatsman, maar ook een blaaskaak. Dat stelt universitair docent Leanne Jansen in een interview in NRC.