Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Op 17 januari houdt Frits Scholten (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) een lezing getiteld: "Private Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages". De lezing wordt gehouden in het kader van een Lorentz center workshop over 'Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries…

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

The expedition commanded by Nicolas Baudin to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia, Timor and South Africa in 1800-1804 is fully researched in regard to ornithology.

Does the presence of Ring-necked parakeets negatively influence feeding and feeding behaviour of native bird species on artificial bird feeders and if so, what are possible solutions?

How can we bridge the gap between experts and the general public?

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Promotor: Johan Kuiper, Co-promotor: Saskia C.A. de Jager

The haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) comprise about 4000 species distributed over a wide range of habitats, with great gametophytic and sporophytic morphological variation. Their monophyly is well supported by the results of several molecular phylogenetic studies, which shed light on their relationships…

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

Accumulation of metals in economy and environment and its associated risks, within the Netherlands and the EU.

My work focuses on a class of astronomical objects called protoplanetary disks.

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.

In dit artikel presenteren Kellerman en Seddon een nieuw conceptueel kader waarin het concept van marktleesbaarheid centraal staat.

Material outflows from industrial economies.

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At the largest scales, two ingredients dictate the distribution of matter in the Universe. The first is dark matter, acting as an invisible scaffolding held together by gravitational forces.

Op 16 december 2019 verdedigde Jan-Harm de Villiers zijn proefschrift 'The Anthropomorphic Hegemony of Subjectivity: Critical Reflections on Law and the Question of the Animal'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P. Cliteur.

Transplantation of labial salivary glands to the eyelids for patients with dry eye appears to give excellent results clinically.

Where does the urge to collect come from? What are the explicit or underlying reasons for gathering large amount of objects?

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.

The unit residue group, to which the present thesis is devoted, is defined using the norm-residue symbol, which Hilbert introduced into algebraic number theory in 1897.

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…

Large areas of space are filled by molecular clouds that consist of gas and dust grains that are the remnants of dead stars. When these clouds start collapsing, the decreasing temperature and increasing density cause gas particles to start accreting onto dust grain surfaces.

What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?

Wat kunnen de talen die vandaag gesproken worden op de Kleine Soenda-eilanden ons vertellen over de geschiedenis van de verschillende bevolkingsgroepen?

Enkele keren per jaar organiseert het Europa Instituut een ‘Meet the Author’ bijeenkomst. In het kader van deze nieuwe lezingenreeks komen externe academici naar Leiden om te spreken over een recente publicatie. ‘Meet the Author’ bijeenkomsten vangen aan met een gesprek tussen een lid van het Europa…

Op 31 januari 2018 verdedigde Vestert Borger zijn proefschrift getiteld ‘The Transformation of the Euro: Law, Contract, Solidarity’. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door professor Stefaan Van den Bogaert (promotor) en dr. Jorrit Rijpma (co-promotor).

Adenosine is an endogenous ligand which exerts its action by activating adenosine receptors (ARs), while its circulating levels are controlled via a variety of mechanism and proteins, amongst others the equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs).

Join the Pipe is een project dat zich inzet om plastic afval te verminderen en mensen zowel in het Globale Zuiden als in het Globale Noorden van drinkbaar water te voorzien.

De tweede geheel vernieuwde editie van 'The E-Primer' bespreekt hoe een breed scala experimenten kan worden geprogrammeerd in E-Prime 3. E-Prime is een van de meest gebruikte softwarepakketten voor het ontwerpen van psychologische experimenten.

OB associations are loose groups of young, massive stars. They constitute the last stage of the massive starformation process, and the context in which new stars are formed.

The LUGO Press is a student publication forum, rooted in academia and journalistic practices and published by the Leiden University Green Office.

In this thesis chemical and physical processes in the ice mantles on interstellar dust grains are studied.

De afdeling Staats- en Bestuursrecht van de Universiteit Leiden heeft een bundel gepubliceerd over de vraag of de historisch gegroeide combinatie van de concepten van democratische legitimiteit en de scheiding van machten mogelijk blijft buiten de context van de traditionele staat, en indien dit mogelijk…

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

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

The research described in this thesis focused on the use of bioorthogonal antigens to investigate immunological processes in antigen presenting cells. Bioorthogonal antigens are antigenic proteins produced through recombinant expression in a methionine auxotrophic E. coli strain.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Op 18 september 2018 verdedigde Jonathan Price zijn proefschrift 'The Egalitarian Constitution'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. A.A.M. Kinneging.

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.

Ruim 1600 leerlingen uit groep 7 van basisscholen in Leiden en Den Haag krijgen op de verjaardag van de universiteit (8 februari) les van een echte professor.

There are many interpretations of quantum mechanics, and ultimately experiments are needed to verify or falsify these interpretations.

This thesis addresses the chemical processes that determine the compositions of giant planet atmospheres.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, A. Enge Co-Promotor: T.C. Streng

Op donderdag 15 december is Elisavet Alexiadou gepromoveerd op haar proefschrift: ‘The Right to Health. A Human Rights Perspective with a Case Study on Greece'. Promotor was hoogleraar gezondheidsrecht Aart Hendriks.

Sphingolipids are important membrane compounds with a variety of functions. In mammalian cells, different enzymes are involved in the metabolism of sphingolipids, but interruption of this metabolism process leads to different diseases.