Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. Its properties cannot be explained with the known laws of physics and elementary particles.

Material outflows from industrial economies.

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…

As a non-invasive genetic method, eDNA based approaches have become an important component of ecologists' and environmental managers' toolkits for biomonitoring in conservation and an increasingly important source of ecological knowledge.

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.

Promotie

Symposium and Workshops

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

ICLON

How does one become a guest author for Nobel Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation? One of our alumni, Mariasole Forlani, can tell you all about it.

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

Op 25 oktober 2018 verdedigde Tu Zhang haar proefschrift 'Public Reason Secularism: A Defense of Liberal Democracy'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. P. Cliteur.

Electoral Systems and Turnout: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd op de website SAGE research methods, bespreken auteurs Jaroslaw Kantorowicz en Tobias M. Hlobil hoe een Regression Discontinuity Design uitgevoerd kan worden.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

Hoe kunnen docenten in non-STEM-onderwijs klimaatveranderingonderwijs integreren om de kennis, vaardigheden en veerkracht van studenten te verbeteren?

Sager, Overeem en anderen onderzoeken of het gedeelde idee van een ‘rijksambtenaar’ in Europa bestaat.

Politicologische studie naar de opzet, samenstelling en het functioneren van parlementaire commissies.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

Op 8 en 9 juli 2022 was de Leidse rechtenfaculteit gastvrouw van het tweede congres van de onderzoeksgroep Conflictoplossende Instituties (COI).

The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

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.

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

Op 13 oktober 2021 verdedigde Ross Spence het proefschrift 'Collateral Transactions and Shadow Banking'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. M. Haentjens en prof.dr. A.M. Pacces (UvA).

Dit project onderzoekt het religieuze leven van een Surinaamse Hindoegemeenschap die in Amsterdam praktiseert in de Sri Radha Krishna Mandir vanuit een interdisciplinair perspectief.

Deze systematische review van 68 Engelstalige artikelen onderzoekt de rol van gewoonterechten in het milieubeheer in Afrika bezuiden de Sahara.

Dit artikel onderzoekt de publieke perceptie van terroristische aanslagen door het belang te meten dat het publiek toekent aan kenmerken van terroristische aanslagen.

IIn dit artikel blazen Jeroen Wolbers en Sanneke Kuipers het academische debat over rampenparaatheid nieuw leven in.

Nederlandse politicologen laten hun licht schijnen over het veranderende electoraat.

In dit artikel bespreken Ben S. Kuipers en Joanne Murphy recente kritieken op de theorie en praktijk van leiderschap.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

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

This thesis aims to investigate the effect of tripartite interaction between microbial inoculants, the plant, and herbivore insects on the rhizosphere microbiome and volatilome. We investigated the rhizosphere microbiome and volatilome of tomato plants exposed to insect herbivory and/or inoculated with…

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

To improve cancer treatments, personalized medicine approaches have aimed to identify exactly which mutations are driving tumor development in a given patient and specifically target these mutations using precision therapies.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer characterized by limited treatment options and unfavorable clinical outcomes. Therefore, the research described in this thesis focused on the exploration of novel targeted therapies for TNBC.

Although nanoparticles are extensively used in various applications like consumer products and have most probably entered the environment, little is known about the effects of these particles on living organisms.

Op vrijdag 16 februari wordt het boek "Woodcuts as Reading Guides: How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550)", geschreven door Andrea van Leerdam, bij de KB gepresenteerd. De presentatie is gratis en voor iedereen toegankelijk. Wel is het nodig om te…

Decentralized plug and play systems for energy production are the future picture of our society. Artificial photosynthetic systems are used for this purpose.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

This thesis investigates how galaxies form and what diversifies the evolutionary histories of galaxies.

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