New master specialisation: Economics and Governance

Het FAIRDOM-consortium is een open initiatief van verschillende partners, waaronder financieringsprogramma's, grote consortia, instituten, kleine groepen en individuen.

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The thesis introduces three methods for high-dimensional prediction problems in the biomedical field. The methods make use of empirical and variational Bayes in the estimation.

Statistical considerations guide the design and implementation of the experiments that scientists perform. For instance, in a clinical trial about a the efficacy of a treatment, its effect in a certain minimum amount of patients has to be observed in order to make confident assertions about the efficacy…

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

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The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

In the Schouwburgstraat, LUGO is currently redesigning the back-garden in order to increase biodiversity and make it a more beautiful space. Throughout October 2023 until March 2024, we will be making changes to the garden with our team of volunteers.

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

Dissociative chemisorption is an important reaction step in many catalytic reactions.

Biological polymers, including proteins and the genome, undergo folding processes crucial for their proper functioning. Even slight changes in the folding structure of these biopolymers can have significant implications, leading to the development of various pathological conditions, such as neurodegenerative…

The main theme of this thesis is the theoretical study of Gaussian processes as a tool in Bayesian nonparametric statistics.

De tweejarige masteropleiding Physics wordt aangeboden door het Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde. De opleiding is theoretisch en experimenteel. Er is ruime aandacht voor onderzoekstraining. Ook bieden we veel keuzemogelijkheden en op maat gemaakte, individuele studieprogramma’s.

Na het afronden van de bacheloropleiding volgen verreweg de meeste studenten de masteropleiding.

Participants in this course will learn to support student teachers and new colleagues in their professional development as teachers, with particular emphasis on the context of bilingual or international education, as in the ICLON World Teachers Programme (WTP).

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

We begrijpen niet hoe sommige materialen supergeleidend worden bij relatief hoge temperaturen. Leids natuurkundigen hebben nu een verrassende connectie gevonden met zwarte gaten. Het stelt ons in staat om onze kennis over zwarte gaten te gebruiken bij het oplossen van het mysterie van hoge-temperatuur…

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Promotor: Peter Stevenhagen

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Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

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Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

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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.

The research presented in this thesis makes use of small molecules (as H2 , D2 and O2 ) on well-defined single crystal surfaces (flat Pt(111), flat Cu(211) and curved Pt(111)) to elucidate the role of surface structure and degrees of freedom in the reactant in specific surface reactions.

Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.

Promotor: Thomas Hankemeier, Co-promotores: Heiko van der Linden, Paul Vulto

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

Promotor: R. Cramer

LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

Promotores: J.C. van Houwelingen, S.A. van de Geer

Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

In astronomy, the interpration of observations and measurements plays a crucial role: we rely purely and fundamentally on the information that reaches us as observers. And 80% of all matter in the universe is undetectable directly.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

We present an extensive study of methods for exactly solving stochastic constraint (optimisation) problems (SCPs) in network analysis. These problems are prevalent in science, governance and industry.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

Promotor: Prof.dr. I.A.G. Snellen, C.U. Keller

Galaxies form and evolve through close interaction with their surroundings. As a result, the heavy elements ('metals') that are synthesized in stars, are found both inside and outside galaxies.

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken