Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Heterogeneous catalyzed processes are highly significant to the chemical industry. Dissociative chemisorption (DC) of molecules on surfaces is always considered as a step with a high degree of rate control for heterogeneous catalysis.

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).

From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy.

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: H.A. Every

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

To study how planetary systems come into existence we study much younger systems still in formation.

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

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

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

Drug development is a time- and resource-consuming process that starts with the discovery and validation of a (protein) target that contributes to pathogenesis or disease progression.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets. Co-promotores: B. Gravendeel, F. Pupulin

Artful Mathematics: The Heritage of M. C. Escher

In this thesis unconventional tools based on fluidic interfaces were developed to study the surface and interfacial chemistry of graphene, to characterize the intrinsic properties of graphene, to disentangle the effects of substrate and of the environmental factors, and to improve handling protocols…

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

The invention of neural networks marks a critical milestone in the pursuit of true artificial intelligence. Despite their impressive performance on various tasks, these networks face limitations in learning efficiently as they are often trained from scratch.

Promotores: J.N. Kok, H.J. Hoogeboom

Sound is everywhere in the marine environment and hearing is therefore a very important for stimuli for fish. They use sound for orientation and communication, during migration, aggregation and spawning, but also for detection of prey and predators.

The following report discusses a survey on the topic of the Sustainable Development Goals that was distributed among researchers at Leiden University in the month of November 2021.

Promotoren: R. Tijdeman, A.K. Lenstra, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is an ubiquitous part of oil refining that ensures that fuels are cleaned of impurities and environment release of pollutants such as SOx and NOx gasses are minimized.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.

Autophagy is a fundamental degradative process, maintaining cellular homeostasis and functions in host defense against intracellular pathogens, including mycobacteria and Salmonella.

This thesis describes the design and development of subunit‐selective inhibitors of particular catalytically active subunits of human constitutive proteasomes and immunoproteasomes.

In this dissertation iron-based homogeneous catalysts were synthesized, characterized and investigated for water oxidation activity.

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

Despite the history of studies on methanol formation from CO2, the dominant elementary reaction steps that constitute the chemical mechanism for this catalyzed process are not determined.

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

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…

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

De pas gepromoveerde Hao Wang van het Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science leert computers hoe je problemen in het dagelijks leven kunt oplossen. Zijn doel is om het proces van probleemoplossing efficiënter te maken. Op 1 november promoveerde hij met het predicaat cum laude. ‘Ik hoop moeilijke…

A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

This thesis mainly focuses on multimodal understanding and Visual Question Answering (VQA) via deep learning methods. For technical contributions, this thesis first focuses on improving multimodal fusion schemes via multi-stage vision-language interactions.

Dit onderzoek richt zich op geweld betreffende jongeren die in aanraking zijn gekomen met het jeugdstrafrecht en ten gevolge daarvan van hun vrijheid zijn beroofd en geplaatst in een gesloten setting (lees: opsluiting in een politiecel, voorlopige hechtenis en detentie na veroordeling).

We show that Kirchhoff ’s law of conservation holds for non-commutative graph flows if and only if the graph is planar. We generalize the theory of (Euclidean) lattices to infinite dimension and consider the ring of algebraic integers as such a lattice.

Like a mixture of oil and water, lipid membranes separate into two liquid phases.

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

My PhD research is devoted to studies of the conjectural cluster-algebraic symmetry in the theory of topological string, which is the simplest, however already non-trivial sector in the theory of string.

Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold

This dissertation is a collection of four research articles devoted to the study of Kummer theory for commutative algebraic groups.

Het onderzoek binnen de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid beperkt zich niet tot een enkel speerpunt, maar richt zich op de volle breedte van het recht. Door actuele onderwerpen (zoals kinderrechten, politiek, sport, rampen of criminaliteit) te behandelen en te koppelen aan de wetenschappelijke theorie,…

Lezing

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.

This PhD-thesis presents a study on micron-sized particles, so-called colloids. By controlling the chemical and physical properties of these particles, such as the interparticle interaction and the particles’ shape, colloids can act as building blocks that self-assembly into larger structures.