Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

Creating information portals for support of European environmental policy.

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.

Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, A. Lucchini

To this day, all cyclophellitol-based inhibitors and ABPs have been close analogues of their natural substrate counterparts. As a result, these probes showed high selectivity towards their target glycosidases.

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Soil is a home for an unbelievable diversity and abundance of microbial life that is essential for supporting life on our planet.

Pharmaceutical companies, governments and the general public have become increasingly aware that animal models used in drug testing lack vital aspects to serve as an accurate representation of human biology. As models of the human body should become more physiologically relevant, animal models no longer…

The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.

Multi-objective evolutionary computation aims to find high quality (Pareto optimal) solutions that represent the trade-off between multiple objectives.

β-Lactamases are enzymes that can break down β-lactam substrates, such as antibiotics, preventing the use of these antibiotics for the treatment of various infectious diseases. However, some compounds, β-lactamase inhibitors, can block these enzymes allowing for possible treatments using a combination…

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M. Bongards (Cologne University)

This thesis addresses the problem of designing performance and energy efficient embedded streaming systems, that is, systems which process a stream of input data coming from the environment and generate a stream of output data going into the environment.

Promotor: F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M. Bonsangue

Glucocorticoids (GCs) are widely prescribed as anti-inflammatory drugs due to their well-established immunosuppressive effects.

This research delves into the unique cultural approach of the Tenggerese people, an Indigenous community in East Java, Indonesia, regarding elderly care. It focuses on their traditional practices of bakti (‘filial piety’) and sayan (‘mutual aid’), deeply ingrained in the community's lifestyle and va…

Detecting planets during their formation stages is crucial for understanding the history and diversity of fully developed planetary systems like our own. However, observing young planets directly is challenging because they are often deeply embedded within their host protoplanetary discs, rich in gas…

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

On a structural level, the properties featured by a majority of mechanical metamaterials can be ascribed to the finite number of soft internal degrees-of freedom allowing for low-energy deformations.

Lange tijd werd de Nederlandse politiek gedomineerd door drie ideologische stromingen: de christendemocratie, de sociaaldemocratie en het liberalisme. Inmiddels zijn deze hoofdstromen smaller geworden en zijn er ter linker- en rechterzijde diverse nieuwe politieke stromen en stroompjes ontstaan. In…

This thesis takes steps toward understanding the interaction between gas-phase and solid-state molecules in star- and planet-forming regions.

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.

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Are there significant differences among the environmental impacts resulting form the production of Asian aquaculture commodities and what are the main causes for these?

This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.

Om een duurzame samenwerking met Azië te bevorderen is het belangrijk elkaar op economisch, sociaal-cultureel, historisch, en juridisch gebied beter te begrijpen. Leidse wetenschappers leveren al decennia een belangrijke bijdrage aan de verwerving van kennis over heden en verleden van Azië en hebben…

Leidse kennis over Europa strekt van de eeuwenoude geschiedenis tot hedendaagse internationale betrekkingen. Door talen, culturen, religies, literatuur, kunst en filosofie in samenhang met elkaar te bestuderen, creëren we onmisbaar diepgaand begrip.

Het Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) wijdt zich aan de bestudering van Azië en het Midden Oosten, vanaf de Oudheid tot het heden.

Gezondheidspsycholoog Andrea Evers onderzoekt met een ERC Consolidator Grant voor excellente onderzoekers hoe verwachtingen over gezondheid de ziekte-uitkomsten beïnvloedden. Onlangs is een extra ERC Proof of Concept subsidie aan Evers toegekend om aansluitend innovatieve therapeutische interventies…

CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

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The European Diploma in Medieval Studies (DEEM) invites students to apply to their programme, which takes place at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, with options for partial online attendance. The DEEM provides advanced academic training for students and scholars specialising in Medieval Studies, including…

At the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs we are proud to celebrate social entrepreneurship, which is why we decided to introduce you to an amazing project by two of our students: Kimberly Schoenmaker and Caroline Flohr. Ambitious, driven and incredibly conscious of the corporate responsibility…

A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments

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…

A single self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot in a high-finesse optical microcavity - the subject of this thesis - is an interesting quantum-mechanical system for future quantum applications. For instance, this system allows trapping of an extra electron and thus can serve as a spin quantum memory,…

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

CONSENT (Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy) is a research project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. The question central to this research is whether recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed…

Promotor: Richard D. Gill

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…

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

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

Using the principles of Industrial Ecology in Environmental Policy making in two cases: transition to a hydrogen economy and chlorinated compounds.

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

What is the mechanism of action preceding a physiological effects induced by metallic nanoparticles?

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?

De kwaliteit van de zorg voor onze ouderen kunnen we verbeteren. Met oog voor de biologische, sociale en management aspecten biedt deze master belangrijke inzichten voor verbeteringen. De master Health, Ageing and Society zet je aan het denken, zet je aan het werk en geeft richting aan je carrière.