In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

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.

The role of material production as a driver of environmental impacts is increasing, which calls for a better understanding of global material flows. This thesis explores the role of in-use stocks of products, buildings and infrastructure as a key driver of global material demand and discusses the implications…

Leiden is een echte studentenstad. Meld je aan voor een studievereniging of studentenvereniging om van jouw studietijd een onvergetelijke tijd te maken!

Grensverleggend geschiedenis leren.

KNIR cursus voor BA and MA studenten - Deadline voor inschrijving: 15 January 2017

IIAS bevordert kritisch, humanistisch en collaboratief werk over, met, in en buiten Azië.

Geesteswetenschappen, Centre for the Arts in Society

ACPA biedt keuzevakken in kunst, muziek en film. Als student van de Universiteit Leiden maar ook als student van de Hogeschool der Kunsten Den Haag(Koninklijk Conservatorium en Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag) kun je via ACPA deze keuzevakken volgen.

Ook voor scholieren die vooral geïnteresseerd zijn in de invloed van muziek is er een PRE-Class. Bij Pop Music ontdek je hoe muziek wordt gebruikt door mensen die zich afzetten tegen de hedendaagse maatschappij. Sinds lange tijd is muziek namelijk van belang bij de identiteitsontwikkeling van mensen,…

Kunstenaars kunnen bij ACPA promoveren: zij doen artistiek onderzoek in en vanuit hun kunstpraktijk. Een promotietraject duurt ongeveer vijf jaar. De promovendus of promovenda doorloopt het traject met eigen financiële middelen en/of steun van een externe werkgever. Een promotietraject bestaat uit…

Archeologie, World Archaeology

Geesteswetenschappen, Centre for the Arts in Society

The Economics and Governance specialisation of the Master in Public Administration teaches you to formulate problem-solving approaches to concrete policy issues found at the intersection between economics and public administration. This specialisation is a unique joint offering of the Department of…

BioSolar Cells is a five-year research project in which ten knowledge institutions and 45 private industries work together.

De kwaliteit van de zorg voor onze ouderen kunnen we verbeteren. Met oog voor de biologische, sociale en management aspecten biedt deze master belangrijke inzichten voor verbeteringen. De master Health, Ageing and Society zet je aan het denken, zet je aan het werk en geeft richting aan je carrière.

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

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In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée

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

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

Despite the fact that gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most studied nanoparticles, there is still a necessity for new approaches allowing for effective protective coating to enable wider use of GNPs in biomedical applications.

The ReCiPe methodology for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA).

In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

Biological cells, the basic building blocks of all life forms, are surrounded by a lipid membrane. More than half of the membrane is occupied by membrane proteins, which can regulate the cell functionality through specific arrangements.

This thesis describes the use of a combined approach of computational and experimental techniques to gain novel insights to understand the glycosylation reaction and its reactive intermediates.

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

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg, Co-promotor: A.W. van der Vaart, B. de Smit

Promotors: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. B. Sendhoff (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.