Staatssecretaris Eric van der Burg wil de opvang van asielzoekers beter spreiden. Hij wil daarom Zuid- en Noord-Holland dwingen om meer asielzoekers op te nemen. In Trouw reflecteert hoogleraar Marlou Schrover op deze voorgenomen maatregelen.

Bij de term ‘Gouden Eeuw’ wordt snel gedacht aan Holland in de zeventiende eeuw, maar veel andere streken van Nederland hebben een heel andere bloeiperiode. Universitair docent Louis Sicking schreef er een boek over. Diverse media besteedden er aandacht aan.

Politici moeten meer doen tegen haatzaaierij van hun collega’s, betoogt hoogleraar Leo Lucassen in de Volkskrant. Volgens hem is het niet genoeg om beledigende uitspraken of social media te negeren, maar moeten politici hier actief afstand van nemen.

Promotie

Denk jij eraan om een periode in het buitenland te studeren? We kwamen twee uitwisselingsstudenten tegen die graag hun ervaringen met je delen.

Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Alumni-activiteit

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Dennis Worst is op 1 januari begonnen aan zijn promotieonderzoek binnen het interdisciplinaire programma ‘Greep op het water. De vorming van het Friese cultuurlandschap in de middeleeuwen’, waaraan ook het Instituut verbonden is.

Remco Breuker, hoogleraar Koreastudies, sprak met de Volkskrant over het geldbedrag dat de overheid beschikbaar stelt om de groeiende studentenaantallen in het hoger onderwijs te compenseren. Volgens Breuker is de 645 miljoen euro niet genoeg om de werkdruk te verlagen.

De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving is een warm pleidooi voor de maatschappelijke relevantie van literatuur.

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

The progressive loss and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). The onset and progression of PD can be triggered by multiple risk factors, for instance, genetic mutation, environmental exposure, and aging.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), one of the largest families of membrane proteins, are responsive to a diverse set of physiological endogenous ligands including hormones and neurotransmitters.

In light of climate change, it is crucial to determine whether plant species can adapt to future climates to avoid extinction. Plants adapt to various conditions by altering their functional traits, such as leaf size or photosynthetic rate. Some traits appear linked and vary together between species,…

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

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

Plants and their pollinators form complex interaction networks. Within these networks, species differ widely in the number of species they interact with.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen (Università degli studi di Milano), Co-Supervisor: Ronald M. van Luijk

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.A.J. Knibbe, Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. K. Allegaert (Leuven)

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

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

Promotor: F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M. Bonsangue

Inverse problems are problems where we want to estimate the values of certain parameters of a system given observations of the system. Such problems occur in several areas of science and engineering. Inverse problems are often ill-posed, which means that the observations of the system do not uniquely…

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…

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

Large parts of the research described in this Thesis aims at the development of oligopeptide-masked toxins and their in situ immunoproteasome-mediated activation.

This research delves into the unique cultural approach of the Tenggerese people, an Indigenous community in East Java, Indonesia, regarding elderly care. It focuses on their traditional practices of bakti (‘filial piety’) and sayan (‘mutual aid’), deeply ingrained in the community's lifestyle and va…

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

Exploring linkages between energy and material use and implications for sustainable development.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

This thesis focuses on using liposomes in two different treatment strategies; vaccination (or immunotherapy) and delivery of a small molecule, and in two different disease models; cancer and atherosclerosis.

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

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,…

Economic Anthropologist Erik Bähre talks on the Dutch News Radio Channel BNR about the effects of the Russia-Ukraine grain agreement for African countries.

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

The book ‘Bestrijdingsmiddelen en Milieu' gives a transparent overview of facts and figures concerning pesticide use in the Netherlands and the impact of pesticides on the environment.

Healthy University Leiden werkt nauw samen met Nederlandse Healthy Universities en hogescholen, als ook in internationaal verband.

Welke rol moet de universiteit spelen in de klimaatcrisis?

This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.