Iconische Rotterdamse gebouwen, stillevens, portretten en abstracte composities. Fotograaf Steef Zoetmulder (1911-2004) is een sleutelfiguur uit de naoorlogse Nederlandse kunstfotografie en staat bekend om zijn creatieve verbeelding van de alledaagse realiteit. Bijzondere structuren en patronen, benadrukt…

Al sinds de oudheid zijn mensen gefascineerd door de dieren die in de zee voorkomen. Historicus Didi van Trijp vertelt hoe wetenschappers een paar honderd jaar geleden dachten over monsters en zeemeerminnen.

Het curatorium van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) heeft op 27 juni 2017 ingestemd met een plan voor nauwere samenwerking met de Universiteit Leiden en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO). Onderdeel van dit plan is de oprichting van een NINO onderzoeksinstituut met een budget van…

Officieel werd de slavernij in Suriname in 1863 afgeschaft. Maar contractarbeiders uit Indonesië leefden daarna nog jaren onder slechte omstandigheden op de plantages.

Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 werd de ‘Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection’ feestelijk geopend. De Bob Wessels Collection is een buitengewoon waardevolle aanvulling op de thans bestaande topcollectie (internationaal) Insolventie- en Handelsrecht en zal de komende jaren verder uitgebreid worden met relevante…

Het DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship programma biedt jaarlijks aan drie senior (postdoc) onderzoekers, verbonden aan een staats- of privé-universiteit in Indonesië, de mogelijkheid om drie maanden onderzoek te doen in de bijzondere collecties van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL).

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Webinar with Q&A

In februari kochten de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL) een bijzonder Chinees manuscript uit de Ming-dynastie. Drie studenten Chinastudies hadden geluk: zij mochten het edict uit 1582 ontcijferen tijdens hun stageperiode. In deze UBLpodcast vertellen ze over hun bevindingen.

Promotor: C. W. J. Beenakker, Yu. V. Nazarov, Co-promotor: J. Tworzydlo

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: M.R. Hogerheijde

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

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Many galaxy clusters exhibit bright diffuse radio emission that traces the underlying structure of the intracluster medium (ICM).

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

This work describes the use of click-to-release chemistry to get spatiotemporal control over immunocytokine activity. Until now, immunocytokines (cytokines coupled to a tumor-targeting-moiety) remained active throughout the body, being able to bind their respective receptors, causing mild to severe…

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Promotores: Wim Jiskoot; Ferry Ossendorp

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

Promotor: Jelle S. Kaastra Co-promotor: Jelle de Plaa

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

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: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotor: Dr. Young Hae Choi

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…

The function of TLRs in innate immunity has aroused worldwide attention soon after its discovery. Because of the broad functions of TLR2 in innate immunity, the drive for the development of TLR2-targeted vaccines or therapeutic treatments has accelerated in the last decades.

Geometric phases lead to a nontrivial interference result when an electron's different quantum mechanical paths choices encircle a magnetic coil in an Aharonov-Bohm experiment.

Promotor: J. Zaanen

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke

Gibbs measures, as used in Statistical Mechanics, have a definition that is remarkably similar to the definition ofg-measures, used in dynamical systems.

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.H. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H.Hoekstra

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Tracing the evolution of the molecular gas content in galaxies is critical for a complete understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, as it provides the direct fuel for star formation. Studies of high-redshift (z>1) molecular gas reservoirs, most commonly traced by carbon monoxide (CO), have seen…

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.

Promotor: I. A. G. Snellen, Co-promotor: M. A. Kenworthy

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: M. Haverkorn