Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

Lezing

Van waterzuiveringsinstallaties tot een lekkere warme douche, de CO2-uitstoot ten gevolge van het watergebruik in de VS staat gelijk aan dat van 50 miljoen auto’s die een jaar lang rondrijden. In The Washington Post raadpleegt journalist Tik Root verschillende experts om te leren over manieren om ons…

How are links between macro-invertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning influenced by anthropogenic pressures?

Where and how are critical materials currently used and how can this information be used to develop scenarios about their future demand.

A critical look at the impact assessment modelling of metals in Life Cycle Impact Assessment and improvement options.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate, Co-promotor: H.W. Slabbekoorn

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

To contribute to the body of knowledge aiming at a better coverage of ecosystem service assessment in LCA studies, this thesis dives into the challenges of incorporating existing ecosystem service methods within the impact assessment phase of the conventional LCA framework.

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.

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?

The external tissues of plants and animals are colonized by microbial communities termed microbiota. When organisms are exposed to environmental pollutants, these substances will therefore encounter microbiota at the exposure interface.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

How the global distribution of vegetation stands dominated by arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal plants relate to principle aspects of belowground carbon accumulation processes?

The aim is to discover where differently shaped metal nanoparticles distributes in Danio rerio, linking the distribution with genomic responses and so come up with a Mode of Action.

The ReCiPe methodology for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA).

Every organisms in the tree of life faces the same challenge: the length of its DNA exceeds the volume of the cell it needs to fit in. Several strategies have evolved to solve this problem, one of them being the expression of proteins that bind and organize the DNA.

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.

Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.

Binnen het brede netwerk van de Universiteit Leiden neemt het instituut deel aan onderzoek binnen de volgende profileringsgebieden:

Novel entities may pose risks to humans and the environment. The small particle size and relatively large surface area of micro- and nanoparticles (MNPs) make them capable of adsorbing other novel entities, leading to the formation of aggregated contamination.

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?

The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.

The application of nanomaterials in industrial processes and consumer products provides many societal benefits, but can also lead to the release of nanomaterials into the environment. The work in this dissertation aims to provide insights into the potential environmental impacts that may follow from…

Binnen Una Europa vindt academische samenwerking plaats in interdisciplinaire zelfsturende comités (SSC’s).

Promotie

Het uitbannen van extreme armoede en het verminderen van inkomensongelijkheid leiden vaak tot meer druk op het milieu. Integratieve beleidsmaatregelen zijn nodig om het milieu te sparen bij gelijktijdige verbetering van sociale en economische omstandigheden.

Dit zijn de mensen die binnen de Universiteit Leiden actief zijn op het gebied van kunstmatige intelligentie.

Als student van de master Criminologie en Veiligheidsbeleid ontwikkel je academische, theoretische en onderzoeksvaardigheden waarbij alle aspecten van veiligheidsbeleid aan bod komen.

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘EU policy and implementation: making Europe work!’ of Public Administration is included in the list of Class Central of the best courses in 2020.

De League of European Research Universities (LERU) is een groep van 24 toonaangevende Europese onderzoeksuniversiteiten.

Op 16 december 2021 verdedigde Lisanne van Houten het proefschrift 'Flexing the Slot Regime'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof. L. Pierallini (Luiss University Of Rome).

This dissertation investigates the energy and material related impacts of the transition towards a low-carbon heating system in the Netherlands, in the context of its 2050 climate and circular economy policy goals.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.

Una Europa heeft zes transversale thema’s vastgesteld en ingevoerd als leidende beginselen voor samenwerking. Deze thema’s hebben als doel het personeel en de studenten van Una Europa te helpen deze thema's in concrete acties om te zetten.

Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…

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

Studenten die deze opleiding volgen, kunnen kiezen uit drie specialisaties: 'Economics and Governance', 'International and European Governance' en 'Public Management and Leadership'. Het programma bestaat uit kernvakken, specialisatievakken, een keuzevak en een masterthesis.