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

This thesis is largely an experimental study on the formation of solid-state simple and complex organic molecules in the H2O-rich and CO-rich ice phases of dense interstellar clouds and dark cores.

Inactivating mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes predispose to several types of cancer.

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

This work describes several studies into the electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR), both regarding mechanistical aspects and catalyst stability considerations. Mechanistic insights into carbon-carbon bond formation on a silver catalyst are described in Ch 2, were we find an acetaldehyde-like surface…

The work in this thesis describes the fundamental role of Lkb1 as a conductor of metabolism-related processes in zebrafish larvae.

The following report discusses a survey on the topic of the Sustainable Development Goals that was distributed among researchers at Leiden University in the month of November 2021.

This thesis describes the structural and biochemical characterization of the β-lactamase BlaC from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and the Alr and YlmE proteins from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).Mtb is the main cause of tuberculosis.

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Laboratory, observation and modeling work on the dissociation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in interstellar environments and the formation of new molecular species through the fragmentation process.

A brief review essay on some of the work that has been recently published in the emergent field of digital ethnography.

This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work.

This course provides an insider perspective into the work of international criminal courts and tribunals. You will learn about the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in The Hague.

Describe and identify what dosimetry parameters are of importance to interpret dose-response relationships (eg., mortality, sub-lethal, growth or reproduction inhabitation, DNA damage and reactive oxygen species, etc. ) for metal-based nanoparticles? How to develop quantitative models that enable to…

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

What is the population size/structure and distribution of tiger and leopard inside the Bardia National Park (BNP) compared with the population outside? What is the movement and home range and conflict pattern in time and space of tigers and leopards inside the BNP compared with outside? What constitutes…

The Economics and Governance specialisation of the Master in Public Administration teaches you to formulate problem-solving approaches to concrete policy issues found at the intersection between economics and public administration. This specialisation is a unique joint offering of the Department of…

Promotie

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

Hieronder vind je de antwoorden op een aantal veelgestelde vragen over toelating tot de klinische specialisaties van de Master Psychologie.

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: G.K. Miley

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

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…

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

Big celebration upcoming weekend: MIRD's 20th anniversary is on the cards. Four alumni from different periods tell what this unique two-year master's in International Relations and Diplomacy has brought them.

Researchers from the Department of Economics - Kees Goudswaard, Koen Caminada, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning and Olaf van Vliet - have been awarded a grant of one million euros by Instituut Gak to investigate self-sufficiency and social protection.

De Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid deelt met trots mee dat Professor Ann Skelton, hoogleraar Kinderrechten in een duurzame wereld en voorzitter van het Kinderrechtencomité van de Verenigde Naties, een eredoctoraat is toegekend door de University of Strathclyde. Deze prestigieuze erkenning is een eerbetoon…

Het tijdschrift 'East European Politics' publiceert artikelen over politiek, bestuur en internationale betrekkingen van de post-communistische landen.

Public Administration is a major refereed journal publishing articles on public administration, public policy and public management.

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

Res Publica een Nederlandstalige wetenschappelijk tijdschrift voor politieke wetenschap, bestuurskunde, Europese en internationale politiek, politieke sociologie en communicatiewetenschap.

Regional & Federal biedt een wetenschappelijk platform aan wetenschappers die zich bezighouden met internationaal onderzoek op deze gebieden.

Acta Politica is het officiële wetenschappelijke tijdschrift van de Nederlandse Kring voor de Wetenschap der Politiek.

Since its beginnings, Leiden University has been home to scholars with a broad and diverse expertise in the histories, languages, literatures and material cultures relevant to the study of Jews and Judaism from antiquity to modern times.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…

The key purpose of this project is to study tautological relations on the level of closed differential forms or even integral cochains (i.e. we don't take classes in cohomology).

The research described in this thesis focused on identifying novel drug targets and synergistic combinations for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a virulent subtype of breast cancer with a dismal prognosis and limited therapeutic options.

PhDArts co-director Dr. Janneke Wesseling’s e-book ‘De volmaakte beschouwer, De ervaring van het kunstwerk en receptie-esthetica’ was recently published. The key question of the book is: how does the work of art work?

Pulsars were first discovered in 1967 and since then the population has grown and expanded over several wavelengths.