The aim of this thesis is to study cell-cell interactions and the development of an assay to explore and quantify the exchange of membrane compounds.

De eerste index om de veiligheid, duurzaamheid en circulariteit van producten te meten, waarmee ze het EU-kader (SSbD) operationaliseren.

Op dinsdag 27 september 2016 promoveert Xinyi Gong op haar proefschrift: A Balanced Way for China's Inter-Regional Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation.

De korte film El Último Consejo (The Last Council) van alumna Itandehui Jansen heeft de Emerging Talent Award gewonnen op het ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival in Toronto.

Hij kondigde het nieuws eerder deze maand aan via een tweet: ‘Erg blij om aan te kondigen dat ik ben benoemd tot hoogleraar Global Security and Technology’. Een nadere kennismaking met Dennis Broeders (46) die vertelt waarom Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) zo goed bij hem past en wat…

What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

Antoaneta Dimitrova, Hoogleraar vergelijkend bestuur was onlangs te beluisteren bij NPO 1, De Nieuws BV van BNNVARA. Ook droeg ze bij aan een artikel in Emerging Europe over de Bulgaarse verkiezingen.

Leiden Child Law Department at Leiden University in the Netherlands formally entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF)

In the summer of 2021, Lucy Opoka was awarded one of the coveted Meijers PhD positions. In October, she arrived back in Leiden, where she obtained her LLM degree Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights in 2019. Professor Liefaard interviewed Lucy upon arrival.

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

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Op 11 juni 2020 verdedigde Sabine Witting haar proefschrift 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr.mr. S. van der Hof.

Immunotherapies for cancer are an emerging class of therapeutic strategies which aim to treat cancer via augmentation of the immune system.

Historische migratiestudies hebben zich lange tijd voornamelijk gericht op de Europese en Atlantische wereld. In dit programmatische langetermijnproject willen we het perspectief verbreden naar de volledige migratie-ervaring van de niet-westerse wereld.

This joint Master with the Autonomous University of Barcelona will the equip you with the necessary competences to play a key role in the emerging field of transfusion medicine. The programme includes both transfusion of blood components and hematopoietic transplants, cellular and tissue therapy, and…

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On dinsdag 26 september heeft Jessica Hill haar proefschrift ‘On the road to adulthood. Delinquency and desistance in Dutch emerging adults’ verdedigd. Promotor is Professor Arjan Blokland.

Promotor: Arjen Doelman, Co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer

A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

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

Neuraminidases are enzymes that cleave glycosidic linkages of sialic acid. These enzymes are involved in influenza infections as well as in many cellular processes in mammals and micro-organisms.

The mission of our group is understanding how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. We believe better science communication can improve our society and engage many different groups with science, also improving science.

An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.

Dit programma, een initiatief van het Instituut voor Geschiedenis in samenwerking met Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta. Richt zich op het bestuderen van meer dan 20 kilometer Nederlands archiefmateriaal in Nederland, Indonesië, India, Sri Lanka en Zuid-Afrika.

Het Empower your PhD-project is een universiteitsbreed project, geïnitieerd vanuit de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen (FSW)

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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.

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

This thesis describes the design, characterization and application of dextran based crosslinked network.

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, which holds the potential to simulate complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical numerical methods.Despite recent formidable advancements in quantum hardware, constructing a quantum computer capable of performing useful calculations remains challenging.In…

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

It has been a long-standing mystery how complex biological structures emerge from such seemingly uncoordinated building blocks as cells and tissues, in the presence of only minimal environmental guidance.

Programma's die de symptomen van sociale angst bij kinderen willen verminderen, omvatten doorgaans meerdere onderdelen, zoals blootstelling en mentale herstructurering. Het is onbekend of afzonderlijke onderdelen positieve effecten opleveren bij kinderen of dat een combinatie van onderdelen nodig is…

Hieronder vind je een overzicht van hoe onderzoekers van de faculteit Governance and Global Affairs en hun onderzoeken in de media verschijnen, en lees je meer over onderwerpen waar de faculteit zich mee bezighoudt.

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

Special Issue in: Visual Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2016

In this thesis unconventional tools based on fluidic interfaces were developed to study the surface and interfacial chemistry of graphene, to characterize the intrinsic properties of graphene, to disentangle the effects of substrate and of the environmental factors, and to improve handling protocols…

Systems are called real-time systems, if the correctness of the system does not only depend on the correctness of the system output but also on whether the output is delivered on time.