Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

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Informatie over promotietrajecten en sollicitatieprocedures voor PhD-posities bij het ICLON

In de pre-PhD fase zoekt het Dual PhD Centre, samen met de kandidaat, een geschikte promotor en de juiste graduate school. De promotor speelt een cruciale rol bij het werken aan een dissertatie of proefschrift. Onder haar of zijn leiding wordt het dissertatieplan (voortkomend uit het onderzoeksvoorstel)…

Gedeelde identiteit, de vorming van onze jeugd en toekomst, ontwikkeling van wetenschap en techniek: over zulke gevoelige onderwerpen gaat het in het onderzoek naar 100 jaar Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (OCW).

In February 2017 our faculty newsletter included an announcement on lecturing in China. I immediately thought I should apply.

At the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs we are proud to celebrate social entrepreneurship, which is why we decided to introduce you to an amazing project by two of our students: Kimberly Schoenmaker and Caroline Flohr. Ambitious, driven and incredibly conscious of the corporate responsibility…

How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

Research

Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

How can we quantify the density of species within a community through environmental DNA concentrations?

Describe and identify what dosimetry parameters are of importance to interpret dose-response relationships (eg., mortality, sub-lethal, growth or reproduction inhabitation, DNA damage and reactive oxygen species, etc. ) for metal-based nanoparticles? How to develop quantitative models that enable to…

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

Voor allerlei zaken zijn wij afhankelijk van de natuur: van schoon water, hout en voedsel tot koolstofopname, waterzuivering en kustbescherming. Maar ook ontspanning, inspiratie en identiteit. In onze moderne wereld staan deze zogeheten ‘ecosysteemdiensten’ steeds meer onder druk. Leidse wetenschappers…

Saskia Gras, gepromoveerde bij het Dual PhD Centre , presenteert op woensdag 6 juni haar boek:

Op woensdag 25 januari 2017 verdedigde Esmeralda Vergeer haar proefschrift ‘Regeldruk vanuit een ander perspectief’ in het Academiegebouw van de Universiteit Leiden. Promotor: prof.dr. W.J.M. Voermans.

Met zijn bestuurskundige dissertatie 'Adding fuel to the conflict' was Vasileios Karakasis de 25ste promovendus van het Dual PhD Centre.

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

Promotores: K.J. Batenburg, B. Koren

What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

In this thesis we investigated the ability of two-photon multifocal microscopy for single-molecule microscopy in live cells and organisms.

In the current global context, there is a pressing need to address sustainable energy supplies to safeguard our Planet and its ecosystems. The choices made by human society have a significant impact on genetic evolution and climate.

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.

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.

A plasma is an ionized gas with very low electrical resistivity. As such, magnetic field lines are 'frozen in' and move with the fluid. Magnetic field lines that are linked, knotted and tangled, cannot be undone by the fluid motions.

HEPGAME is a research project that combines the world’s fastest computer algebra system for High Energy Physics equations, FORM, with insights from artificial intelligence. The name combines High Energy Physics and Games.

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…

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.

Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) and tumor cell migration play an important role in cancer progression, and an improved understanding of the mechanisms underlying these concepts is essential for developing new targeted approaches.

De onderzoeksgroep Governance of Crises bestudeert fenomenen, dynamieken en actoren die te maken hebben met crisisgovernance. Het Crisis Research Center (CRC) van de Universiteit Leiden maakt deel uit van deze onderzoeksgroep.

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

Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) have been detected in objects across different stages of stellar evolution.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: S.C. Hille

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.

Atherosclerosis is the most prominent underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease and an important cause of major adverse cardiovascular events.

The filamentous bacteria Streptomyces are widespread inhabitants of terrestrial soils.

In this thesis we classify the pairs (p,G), where p is a prime number and G is a finite p-group possessing an intense automorphism, i.e. an automorphism that sends each subgroup of G to a G-conjugate, that is non-trivial and whose order is coprime to p.

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.

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

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

Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and the theory of it is not always analytical and elegant.