Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Promotor: A. Kros

The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy marks its 15th anniversary in 2020 with an award for the best article in the journal. The HJD Article Award is a biennial prize, like the Book Award that the ISGA-based journal will launch in 2021.

Jan Melissen, universitair hoofddocent bij ISGA en hoofdredacteur van The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, heeft met zijn team 10.000 euro gekregen uit het fonds ‘Gewaardeerd’. Dit pilotfonds, uitgevoerd door de KNAW (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) wil de interactie tussen wetenschap…

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

Sociale Wetenschappen, Psychologie

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

Het schema hieronder geeft het curriculum weer van het eenjarige fulltime programma van de master Health, Ageing and Society in collegejaar 2024-2025.

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

Soil is a home for an unbelievable diversity and abundance of microbial life that is essential for supporting life on our planet.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

Antimicrobial drugs constitute a fundamental part of modern medicine. The global rise in antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to global health.

Sinds 2009 behaalden 87 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

One of the key discoveries in exoplanet research over the past decade is the abundance of small planets in our Milky Way. Despite their high numbers, our understanding of their atmospheres remains limited, and it is unknown if they possess atmospheres at all.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Co-Promotor: N.S. Pannu

Investigating epistemic and ethical practices in medical experimentation on humans in the colonial period in Southeast Asia.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde (LION)

The School of Celtic Studies (DIAS) is organizing a conference on medieval multilingual manuscripts. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars working on medieval bilingual or multilingual sources from a variety of linguistic backgrounds, geographical areas, and literary genres. It will…

A remarkable population of short period transiting rocky exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures on the order of 2,000 K has recently been discovered.

The overarching clinical aim of this thesis was to improve pharmacological pain management by characterizing the pharmacodynamics of analgesics. This promotion has been awarded the predicate cum laude.

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Modern optimization algorithms offer solutions for architectural decisions like spatial, structural and energy efficiency. A young computer scientist from Leiden University co-authored a paper that won the Best Paper Award at a leading conference in Krakow during the summer.

Hieronder vind je een overzicht van hoe onderzoekers van de faculteit Governance and Global Affairs en hun onderzoeken in de media verschijnen, en lees je meer over onderwerpen waar de faculteit zich mee bezighoudt.

Aspergillus niger is an important industrial producer of organic acids and enzymes producing large amounts of spent fungal biomass.

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…

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

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

Sinds 2021 is de master ook in deeltijd te volgen, een parttime opleiding van 2-3 dagen per week, waarvan één vaste, verplichte dag op vrijdag.

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

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

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

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: R.S. de Jong

Last month, on March 19th, Leiden Law School hosted the first Law, AI & Digitalisation Meetup, a collaborative initiative organised by the departments of Public Law, Civil Law, eLaw, and Business Studies. The afternoon event featured engaging pitch sessions, informative poster presentations, and networking…

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’.

Effectiveness and Side-effects.

The work in this thesis demonstrates how to obtain an atomic-scale picture of a diverse set of complex surface structures observed using STM, under disparate conditions.

Dit onderzoeksproject wordt mogelijk gemaakt door een onderzoekssubsidie van Instituut Gak.

Duurzaamheid is een van de centrale aandachtspunten van de Universiteit Leiden en speelt een steeds grotere rol binnen het onderwijs en onderzoek van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid. Binnen deze context levert de afdeling Sociaal Recht een belangrijke bijdrage aan het debat en onderzoek rondom Business…

Duurzaamheid is een van de centrale aandachtspunten van de Universiteit Leiden en speelt een steeds grotere rol binnen het onderwijs en onderzoek van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid. Binnen deze context levert de afdeling Sociaal Recht een belangrijke bijdrage aan het debat en onderzoek rondom Business…

In het tijdschrift Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes wordt deze maand een artikel gepubliceerd van dr. Helen Pluut in samenwerking met Katrina Jia Lin en Remus Ilies van de National University of Singapore, waar Helen voorheen werkzaam was, en met Su-Ying Pan van de Macau University…