Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC), Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde (LION)

Dinsdag 14 juni was Armin Cuyvers te gast in het programma Juridische Zaken van BNR.

This report investigates the different approaches in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use in the European Union and the United States of America. Three main aspects are considered and analyzed as potential causes of differences in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use.…

How can we broaden youth participation in STEM Learning

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

Het LLC draagt bij aan zowel initieel onderwijs over publiek leiderschap in de bachelor, master en honours programma’s, als aan post-academische opleidingen voor professionals.

What happens to electrical waves that have to cross gaps in insulation material around nerves in the human body

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.

What are trait-trait relationships in wetlands? To what extent the so-called leaf economics traits deviate from terrestrial ecosystems? How traits specific to wetland plant relate to plant strategies? What’s the relationship between wetland plant traits to the ecosystem functioning (e.g. productivity,…

Are there significant differences among the environmental impacts resulting form the production of Asian aquaculture commodities and what are the main causes for these?

Studievoorlichting, Experience Day

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De Universiteit Leiden breidt haar onderwijsaanbod in Den Haag uit met twee Nederlandstalige bacheloropleidingen: Economie & Samenleving en Cybersecurity & Cybercrime. De studies spelen in op actuele maatschappelijke vraagstukken en bieden studenten de kans om verschillende vakgebieden te combineren…

Jelle van Buuren, terrorisme-expert en universitair docent aan ISGA, sprak o.a. met het Eindhovens Dagblad over de arrestatie van negen vermeende terroristen in Eindhoven.

LUC The Hague biedt een driejarige bacheloropleiding aan: Liberal Arts & Sciences. Deze brede en uitdagende bacheloropleiding wordt volledig in het Engels gegeven, en heeft als centraal thema Global Challenges: grote uitdagingen waar de wereld en mensheid voor staat.

Marieke Liem, Universitair Hoofddocent bij het Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), is geïnterviewd door Trouw over de opinie van Nederlanders over het dreigingsbeeld: “Nederlanders reageren relatief nuchter op aanslagen in buurlanden en de mogelijke risico’s van een terroristische dreig…

Werelden met elkaar verbinden, onderzoek en onderwijs verrijken en innovatieve oplossingen aandragen voor complexe maatschappelijke vraagstukken: dàt is de gedachte achter interdisciplinair onderzoek. Er gebeurde in 2023 enorm veel binnen de Universiteit Leiden op dat vlak. We doen een kleine, veelbelovende…

Elke week organiseert ISGA de Research Seminar Series waarin onderzoek van zowel medewerkers van ISGA als van externen aan bod komt.

In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

EXIOBASE is a global, detailed Multi-regional Environmentally Extended Supply and Use / Input Output (MR EE SUT/IOT) database. It was developed by harmonizing and detailing SUT for a large number of countries, estimating emissions and resource extractions by industry, linking the country EE SUT via…

The class-imbalance problem is a challenging classification task and is frequently encountered in real-world applications. Various techniques have been developed to improve the imbalanced classification performance theoretically and practically.

An overview is given of the flows of chlorine and chlorinated hydrocarbons through the Europian Union.

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

Make more fluid: In condensed matter systems, electrons can acquire unusual properties from their interaction with the atomic lattice.

This book aims to be a point of reflection and debate for journalists, academics and students to recognize a fundamental task in the duty of the communications professional, which is to influence through their daily work and their routines in order to achieve a more inclusive and plural society, through…

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

In this research project, we aimed to obtain more insight in the role of mast cells in the immune driven disorders rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

The findings in this thesis improve the understanding of 1) the relationship between exposure characteristics and toxicity of ENPs, 2) the joint toxic action of ENP mixtures and the comparison to metal salt mixtures, 3) how NOM affects the individual and joint toxicity of ENPs, 4) the extent of trophic…

This thesis mainly focuses on multimodal understanding and Visual Question Answering (VQA) via deep learning methods. For technical contributions, this thesis first focuses on improving multimodal fusion schemes via multi-stage vision-language interactions.

Timo Slootweg, associate professor at he department Philosophy of Law, published a chapter about Paul Scholten in

PUMA aims at composing a geological map of the urban mine of Amsterdam for a selection of metals. Where are main deposits of copper, iron and aluminium located, when will they become available for secondary production, in what state and shape are they?

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

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

Studievoorlichting

Studievoorlichting

Indonesia is experiencing various environmental challenges related to its fast economic growth. Therefore, it is necessary to have measurable and applicable indicators to obtain accurate data and information regarding the costs of adverse environmental impacts arising from economic activities to support…

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

De juridische erkenning van homo- en lesbische relaties breidt zich uit over Europa. Partners van gelijk geslacht krijgen toegang tot meer en meer rechten – in meer en meer landen. Leidse rechtswetenschappers en Franse demografen publiceren een gedetailleerde databank en een vergelijkende analyse.

Quentin Bourgeois coördineert een opgraving op de heide bij Epe waar prehistorische grafheuvels worden opgegraven. Hij zet hierbij magnetometers in die minuscule magnetische afwijkingen in de bodem registreren.

Het vergelijken van terreuraanslagen met het vallen van een keukentrapje is onzinnig, schrijft Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn in het NRC Handelsblad van 27 september 2017.

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