We are very excited to announce our Sustainability Series for 2023-2024. Each month an interactive workshop will be organised that discusses a specific theme of sustainability. Interested about sustainability? Do not hesitate to sign up to our events !

For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

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.

Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

The investigations described in this thesis lay out strategies aimed at advancing antibiotic research and development. The examples presented revolve around two main approaches: understanding drug-target interactions and target identification.

The Sun and all the stars in the night sky reside in the Milky Way galaxy. In the at-rest reference frame of the Galaxy, typical stars travel with velocities of about 100-200 kilometres per second.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. G.H. Baltes (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

This series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race, race-thinking, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first seminar will be held on Monday, October 19, at 12:00 EDT by…

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

Vanuit de opleiding Nederlandse taal en cultuur biedt de Universiteit Leiden een gloednieuwe lezingenreeks aan: Letter en Geest: Neerlandistiek in Leiden. De reeks combineert bestaande en nieuwe lezingen. Naast de jaarlijkse Indische Letterenlezing en Albert Verweylezing worden docenten, alumni en…

In dit interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma werken onderzoekers uit vijf verschillende disciplines met elkaar samen. Zij stellen zich hieronder (in het Engels) aan u voor.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

In deze nieuwe vijfdelige serie uit de online reeks Reis om de wereld leidt kunsthistoricus dr. Kathleen Nieuwenhuisen u naar bijzondere locaties in New York, Rome, New Jersey, Japan en Saoedi Arabië. Ze zijn alle verschillend van aard. Gaat u mee?

Understanding how galaxies form, interact, and evolve comes largely from comparing theory predictions with observational data. Numerical simulations of galaxies provide the most accurate approach to testing the theory, as they follow the non-linear evolution of gas and dark matter in great detail and…

The glycosylation reaction is a pivotal reaction in creating new and complex oligosaccharides.

Sinds 2009 behaalden 84 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

Binnen het NWO-project ‘Signed, Sealed & Undelivered’ ontwikkelde een team een technologie om gevouwen brieven te lezen zonder openen. Volgens projectleider Nadine Akkerman, zetten de auteurs hiermee onderzoek naar de vouwwijze van brieven op de kaart.

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials which derive their unusual properties from their structure rather than their composition.

This thesis is about cosmological inflation and its relation to observations.

Leiden University and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management are involved in a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Data-Driven Risk Assessment in Infrastructure Networks'

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Multicopper oxidase, laccase, can efficiently reduce oxygen to water and are mostly used in the enzymatic biofuel cells.

It is time for the fifth lecture in the series Manuscript Mondays. We shall have two speakers. Jesse Keskiaho (University of Helsinki, Finland) will start with a talk about the soul. In the second talk Evina Steinova will tell us more about the medieval encyclopaedia. The talks will be followed by a…

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

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…

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

How should jurisdictions, both on the national and on the supra-national level, handle the interaction between public and private law where it regards the regulation of financial markets?

Moritz Jesse has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In his MIND-EU Project he will focus on a coherent way to teach Migration, Integration, and Non-Discrimination at Leiden Law School at bachelor and master level.

Global healthcare is on the verge of an antibiotic availability crisis as bacteria have evolved resistance to nearly all known antibacterials. Identifying new antibiotics that operate via novel modes-of-action is therefore of high priority.

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

Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen

In this thesis, the role of plant-mediated soil legacy effects in shaping aboveground plant-insect interactions was investigated.

Sociale Wetenschappen, Psychologie

Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College The Hague

Promotores: J. Kok, M. Chaudron (Chalmers University)

Alledaagse taal uit het verleden kennen wij nauwelijks, maar taalkundig onderzoek van een unieke brievencollectie opent perspectieven. Buitgemaakte brieven van mannen, vrouwen en zelfs kinderen stonden centraal in het Leidse Brieven als Buit-project onder leiding van prof. dr. Marijke van der Wal, dat…

Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries

Promotor: F.J. van Lunteren, E. Jorin

Voordrachten in het kader van het onderzoeksproject Zelfredzaamheid en sociale bescherming over de levenscyclus (aug. 2017 – dec. 2023).

eLaw onderzoekt de rol van het recht in de informatiemaatschappij: hoe kan het recht bijdragen aan een goede werking van informatie- en communicatietechnologie, en het gebruik ervan door burgers, bedrijven en overheden?

Sociale Wetenschappen, Psychologie

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

De cultuurpolitiek van de' Medici tijdens de renaissance in Florence.