Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

Promotor: A.W. van der Vaart

In this project innovative technology for photovoltaics cells is developed and analysis of ecological and health related risks are explicitly accounted for.

Van het filteren van uv-licht in zonnebrandcrème tot het voorkomen van zweetgeur in sokken en het steriliseren van koelkasten en wasmachines. Steeds vaker gebruiken producenten nanodeeltjes in producten. Maar wat is het effect van deze miniscule deeltjes op het milieu?

We zijn nog onvoldoende in staat om de reikwijdte en impact van cybersecurity vraagstukken te zien, meent professor Bibi van den Berg in een artikel op de website van iBestuur online. Zij pleit voor een bredere focus, bijvoorbeeld door niet alleen systemen maar ook mensen als risicodragers te zien.

Promotie

The aim of our research program is to better understand the aetiology and course of mood, anxiety and trauma and stressor-related disorders and to test and improve treatments for these disorders.

Join this lecture from professor Daniel Aldrich at the Spanish Steps in Wijnhaven on Wednesday 3 November. Dr. Sanneke Kuipers, associate professor in Crisis Governance, will be the moderator of the lecture and she and professor Aldrich give us a preview of the event.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

PUMA aims at composing a geological map of the urban mine of Amsterdam for a selection of metals. Where are main deposits of copper, iron and aluminium located, when will they become available for secondary production, in what state and shape are they?

The cases of building materials, automobility, mushrooms and plastics.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold

Plants and their pollinators form complex interaction networks. Within these networks, species differ widely in the number of species they interact with.

Indicators to measure progress in de-linking economic growth and environmental pressure.

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.

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

In order to be able to develop effective medicine and treatments to prevent or cure autoimmune diseases or cancer we need to understand the mechanisms how they arise and what drives their course.Unravelling the fundamental molecular mechanisms influencing the onset and course of diseases such as allergies,…

De onderzoeksgroep ‘Governance of Crises’ bestudeert verschijnselen, dynamiek en spelers als het gaat om crisisbeheersing. Het Crisis Research Center (CRC) van de Universiteit Leiden maakt deel uit van deze onderzoekgroep.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg

Promotores: C.A.J. Knibbe, D. Tibboel, Co-Promotor: P. Bruins

Onderzoeksproject 'QUAD'

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

Overzicht van de vacatures bij de afdeling Economie.

The findings in this thesis improve the understanding of 1) the relationship between exposure characteristics and toxicity of ENPs, 2) the joint toxic action of ENP mixtures and the comparison to metal salt mixtures, 3) how NOM affects the individual and joint toxicity of ENPs, 4) the extent of trophic…

The project falls in the context of the EU Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (COM(2005)670). The Institute for Environment and Resources (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed three sets of decoupling indicators. Such indicators require the definition of a…

Students Practicing Citizen Journalism

Research

Do selenium nanoparticles in fish food cause subtle alterations in behavior of fish: effect of particles size and concentration?

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

One of the main challenges in the development of an effective anti-cancer vaccine is the generation of an adequate and directed cellular immune response.

Streptomyces are bacteria abundant in soil that participate in diverse and complex interactions. These bacteria are the main producers of the antibiotics we currently use in the clinic.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, E. Fouvry (Univeriste Paris Saclay)

Galaxies form and live inside dark matter haloes. As a consequence, they are exposed to the tidal fields generated by the surrounding matter distribution: this imprints a preferential direction to the galaxy shapes, which leads to a coherent alignment on physically close galaxies, called intrinsic a…

Until the 1990s, the only known planets were those in our Solar System. Three decades later, several thousand exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and substantial efforts have been made to explore these strange new worlds through spectroscopic analyses of their atmosphe…

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.

Promotor: Jaap Brouwer, Co-promotor: Remus Th. Dame

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.

In this thesis we study bistable reaction-diffusion equations on lattice domains.

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E Gittenberger, Co-Promotores: C.H.J.M. Fransen, B.W. Hoeksema

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.