Promotor: Bas Edixhoven, Promotor: Qing Liu

Catalysis is of extreme relevance in the production of everyday materials and plays a central role in many aspects of our life.

Barrier function is the natural role of the skin. The lipid matrix present in the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum is important for this function.

What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?

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.

This thesis presents the systematics, epidermal defense, and bioprospecting of wild orchids.

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), are increasing in prevalence due to the aging population. Despite extensive study, these diseases are still not fully understood and the lack of personalised treatment options that can target the cause of the diseases, rather than the symptoms,…

The chemical and structural heterogeneity of toxoid vaccines makes their analysis challenging. However, detailed insights on a molecular level can be obtained by mass spectrometry.

This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.

In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

The prevalence of obesity (BMI >40 kg/m2) has increased rapidly over the recent years, not only in adults, but also in children and adolescents.

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

This thesis presents the results of a study on the interfaces of insulating oxides with and without the insertion of a magnetic layer.

Decentralized plug and play systems for energy production are the future picture of our society. Artificial photosynthetic systems are used for this purpose.

The thesis addresses the long-term dynamical evolution of hierarchical multiple systems.

In this work, we investigate the minute circular dichroism effects of single nanoparticles.To this aim, we apply photothermal imaging with a polarization-modulated heating beam.

Increasing the efficiency of gene targeting (GT) as a genome editing tool in plants has been an important goal in plant biotechnology.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.W.M. Frenken

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.

Ethiopian wolves are endangered diurnal Afroalpine rodent hunters. I investigated the interaction between wolves, rodents and human land use in Borena Sayint National Park (BSNP), Abune Yosef and Aboi Gara in Ethiopia.

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique used to visualize the inside of cells and to study specific protein complexes. Within this thesis, I describe the use of various cryo-EM techniques to gain insight into the structural changes of the human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, as it…

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

Fase 2A van het Gorlaeus Gebouw wordt, net als fase 1, duurzaam gebouwd.

Promotores: H.S. Overkleeft, G.A. van der Marel, Co-Promotor: R.G. Boot

Promotores: J. Kok, M. Chaudron (Chalmers University)

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.

With increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and their detrimental effect on the global climate, modern society needs to push for more renewable energy sources. Storing widely accessible and abundant solar energy in chemical bonds in the form of molecular fuel via artificial photosynthesis…

As a non-invasive genetic method, eDNA based approaches have become an important component of ecologists' and environmental managers' toolkits for biomonitoring in conservation and an increasingly important source of ecological knowledge.

The last decades it is increasingly recognized that acute as well as chronic postoperative pain is an important problem. Treatment and prevention of postoperative pain is a challenge, especially in special patient populations where there is only limited guidance on how to optimally use opioids.

It is an established fact that the Standard Model has to be extended to explain the so-called Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) phenomena: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and neutrino flavour oscillations.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

Van 24 t/m 26 januari vindt de 11e jaarlijkse conferentie Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) plaats in Brussel. Het Leidse Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie (eLaw) zal in diverse panels vertegenwoordigd zijn.

Als partner in het EuDEco-poject heeft het Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie (eLaw) een panel georganiseerd onder de titel “Filling accountability holes in algorithmic networks” tijdens de 11e jaarlijkse conferentie Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), 24-26 januari in Brussel.

Waarom is er geen Noordoost Aziatische veiligheidsstructuur? In dit artikel, gepubliceerd in The Pacific Review, bespreken auteurs Wang (Peking University) en Stevens (Leiden University) de vier obstakels voor coöperatie in Oost Azië.

Ruben van Gaalen maakte gebruik van een wel heel unieke aanpak voor het vak Connecting Dreams: in plaats van een essay te schrijven, vertrok hij naar Dublin en maakte hij een documentaire over Afrikaanse rappers in Ierland.

De masteropleiding Education and Child Studies is een academische opleiding en biedt op onderzoek gebaseerde kennis over leren en de ontwikkeling van kinderen.

De masteropleiding Education and Child Studies is een academische opleiding en biedt op onderzoek gebaseerde kennis over leren en de ontwikkeling van kinderen.

De masteropleiding Education and Child Studies is een academische opleiding en biedt op onderzoek gebaseerde kennis over leren en de ontwikkeling van kinderen.

De masteropleiding Education and Child Studies is een academische opleiding en biedt op onderzoek gebaseerde kennis over leren en de ontwikkeling van kinderen.

De masteropleiding Education and Child Studies is een academische opleiding en biedt op onderzoek gebaseerde kennis over leren en de ontwikkeling van kinderen.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

Promotor: J.M. Memelink

Tsolin Nalbantian wil studenten leren hun kennis te vertalen naar een breed publiek.

De programmagroep Onderwijswetenschappen verzorgt onderwijs op het gebied van onderwijs, het leren en de ontwikkeling van leerlingen in de schoolcontext. Studenten worden aangemoedigd uitkomsten van wetenschappelijk onderzoek te gebruiken om hun mening over het onderwijsbeleid en de onderwijspraktijk…