This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.

Diplomatiek onderhandelen is een moeilijk te begrijpen en te beheersen proces. Toch is het onderhandelen tussen staten en in internationale organisaties van levensbelang voor het functioneren van het internationale bestel.

Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie in Leiden staat bekend om haar internationaal georiënteerde expertise. Met een breed scala aan theoretische, methodologische en regionale onderwerpen, biedt de opleiding een sterk gefundeerd en verdiepend programma.

At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.

Remus Dame

This thesis focuses on protoplanetary disks: flattened structures of gas and dust around young stars in which planets are expected to form and grow.

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

An assessment approach that tailors to children’s instructional needs

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

A novel mathematical model describes spatial-temporal drug distribution within one or more brain units, which are cubic representations of a piece of brain tissue with brain capillaries at the edges.

In this thesis, we aimed to better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in TNBC progression and metastasis formation and discover new targets to reduce breast cancer related deaths.

S.S. Kolipaka’s thesis questions and investigates the survival prospects of reintroduced tigers and their offspring’s in the human dominated landscape of Panna tiger reserve in India.

Het doel van dit project is om een duidelijk overzicht te krijgen van duurzaamheidsinspanningen die binnen de faculteiten worden gedaan, evenals het leggen van blijvende verbindingen tussen universiteitsmedewerkers en studenten die bij deze inspanningen betrokken zijn. Het Leiden University Green Office…

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).

Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.

An Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) is a highly luminous region at the center of a galaxy, powered by the accretion into a supermassive black hole and emitting energy from radio waves to gamma rays, often outshining the host galaxy.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

Hoe kunnen interdisciplinaire en transdisciplinaire samenwerkingen tussen psychologie en bestuurskunde bijdragen aan het ontwikkelen en toepassen van gedragsinzichten die het functioneren van de overheid en haar interactie met burgers verbeteren?

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

Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are a group of orphan diseases characterized by lysosomal dysfunction or impaired lysosomal catabolism and affect collectively about 1 in 5000 live births.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Op 10 oktober 2019 verdedigde Laure d'Hondt haar proefschrift 'Addressing Industrial Pollution in Indonesia. The Nexus between Regulation and Redress seeking'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. A.W. Bedner.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Smets, M. Stech

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr. K.E. Schalm

As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

De minor Creative Strategies for a Society in Change (CSSC) legt een verbinding tussen het verkrijgen van inzicht in creatieve maakprocessen en het verkennen van maatschappelijke problematieken die kenmerkend zijn voor onze tijd.

Humans and songbirds learn their vocalizations early in life by exposure to the vocalizations of adult conspecifics. Often, better learning outcomes are achieved with live, social, tutors than with audio-only exposure to vocalizations.

Multiple stars, that is two or more stars composing a gravitationally bound system, are common in the universe.

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

The focus throughout this thesis will be on gathering fundamental studies of the detailed structure and composition of the electrode/electrolyte interface effect on the rate and mechanism of key electrocatalytic reactions.

Creating information portals for support of European environmental policy.

Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?

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.

Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron, Co-Promotor: M.T.M. Emmerich

The sequence-dependence of biomolecular interactions involving nucleic acids and proteins is essential for numerous processes inside the cell. Insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms have been obtained using various biochemical and biophysical methods on two different levels — bulk and sin…

Het Brain and Education lab is een onderzoeksgroep van het Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen aan de Universiteit Leiden en maakt deel uit van het Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC). Ons onderzoek richt zich op de ontwikkeling van cognitieve processen die betrokken zijn bij leren en academische…

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

This thesis is dedicated to the exploration of the primordial dark ages: unknown physics during the earliest stages of the Universe’s expansion that have not yet been directly probed by observations. Cosmic inflation is a burst of exponential expansion of space after the “Big Bang”.

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond