Prof dr. C.A. van Eck heeft de Descartes-Huygensprijs gekregen. Deze wordt eens in de drie jaar door de Franse Académie des Sciences en de KNAW toegekend aan een geesteswetenschapper. De prijs is gesponsord door de Franse Ambassade in Nederland en wordt toegekend aan Franse en Nederlandse onderzoekers…

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

Op 23 juni 2020 verdedigde Santy Kouwagam haar proefschrift 'How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. A.W. Bedner en prof.dr. C.E. von Benda-Beckmann.

In this thesis, several aspects of software debugging from automated crash reproduction to bug report analysis and use of contracts have been studied.

Op 11 december 2014 ontving dr. Nele Beyens de G.A. Lindeboomprijs 2014 voor haar bijzondere verdiensten op het terrein van de medische geschiedschrijving in Nederland. De jury besloot haar voor de prijs voor te dragen vanwege haar in 2013 uitgegeven biografie van vrouwenarts Hector Treub 'Immer bereid…

Promotor: B. van de Water, Co-promotor: E.H.J. Danen

The ultimate aim of this project is to improve cooperation between courts in different Member States.

To an algebraic curve C over the complex numbers one can associate a non-negative integer g, the genus, as a measure of its complexity.

Promotor: Richard D. Gill

Does a high quality prairie restoration in an urban/agricultural landscape provide invertebrates necessary for a sustainable ecosystem?

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

How should jurisdictions, both on the national and on the supra-national level, handle the interaction between public and private law where it regards the regulation of financial markets?

Promotores: T.H. Oosterkamp, N. de Jonge

Op 28 juli 2022 overleed onze gewaardeerde collega Daniëlle Hamstra na een kort ziekbed. Sinds 2010 was Daniëlle verbonden aan de sectie Klinische Psychologie, aanvankelijk als student in de research master en vervolgens als docent en promovenda.

Wat zijn de belangrijkste thema's in het uitvoeren van systemen voor bio-energie ?

Door de vergrijzing neemt de druk op de ouderenzorg toe. Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat ouderen gezond en vitaal kunnen blijven leven? In het vak ‘Living Lab’ van de Master Vitality and Ageing (V&A) van het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) werken studenten aan actuele vraagstukken rond de gezondheid…

De afdeling bereikte het droevige bericht dat hoogleraar burgerlijk recht prof. mr. A.R. Bloembergen op 1 november 2016 is overleden. Hij wordt met eerbied en dankbaarheid herdacht. Bloembergen was hoogleraar in Leiden van 1965 tot 1979.

Metabolomics has the potential to play a pivotal role in understanding disease onset and progression, and ultimately personalized treatments. One of its major challenges is its large-scale implementation, which is necessary to deal with the high variability of the metabolome. In this work we have developed…

As per January 1st, Niek Strohmaier is part of Kifid’s arbitration committee.

Recently, a new edition of the ELS bulletin was sent out. Furthermore, we are thrilled to share the Midterm Report of the ELS lab @Leiden with you!

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.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Studievoorlichting

eLaw onderzoekt de rol van het recht in de informatiemaatschappij: hoe kan het recht bijdragen aan een goede werking van informatie- en communicatietechnologie, en het gebruik ervan door burgers, bedrijven en overheden?

Promotor: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promotor: Todor P. Stefanov

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

The space between the stars isn't simply a void; it also contains substances such as methanol and carbon dioxide. So far, chemical theories have been unable to explain how these substances originate under circumstances that should make it impossible. Fedor Goumans has been awarded a Veni subsidy to…

For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

Een nieuw artikel van Dr. Helen Pluut zal verschijnen in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Het artikel, dat samen met Marion Büttgen en Jan Ullrich van de Universiteit van Hohenheim is geschreven, heeft implicaties voor organisaties die een duaal laddersysteem hanteren. Zulke systemen…

Glycosidases are essential in fundamental biological processes and are responsible for the degradation of most (oligo)saccharides, glycolipids and glycoproteins.

In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

The solar system was formed approximately 4.56 billion years ago. Despite the numerous theories that have been developed over the years, the formation and evolution of the solar system still remain unclear.

Phosphorylation affects all four major biomolecules – proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids – and plays a pivotal role in the most fundamental cellular functions.

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Balsaminaceae is a diverse plant family characterized by a huge floral morphological diversity.

Op 11 juni 2020 verdedigde Sabine Witting haar proefschrift 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr.mr. S. van der Hof.

Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

Een diversere groep studenten kun je je bijna niet voorstellen. India, Duitsland, Pakistan, Nederland, Israël, Rusland, Italië en Mongolië, allemaal voorbeelden van landen die dit voorjaar vertegenwoordigd zijn in de pilot van het International Leiden Leadership Programme.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

The focus of the dissertation

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…

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

How presence, abundance and enzymatic activities of AM and EM fungi differently affect soil carbon sequestration processes?

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper