This thesis is concerned with the constitution of chiral responsive matrix assemblies that may undergo light-driven conformational changes and self-select vibrations to develop vibronic states for driving semi-classical coherent transfer with nearly 100% yield in a lossless NCAP process.

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

Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

Promotor: P. J. J. Hooykaas, Co-promotor: R. Offringa

Actinobacteria are well known for the production of bioactive natural products, many of which have applications in the fields of human, animal and plant health. Subject of this thesis are the anthracyclines, glycosylated aromatic polyketides with potent anticancer activity.

Artful Mathematics: The Heritage of M. C. Escher

Low-mass main-sequence stars like our Sun are continuous sources of outflowing hot magnetised plasma. In the case of the Sun, this is known as the solar wind, whereas for other stars they are called stellar winds.

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

Atherosclerosis is the most important underlying process that drives cardiovascular disease, and is characterized by an accumulation of cholesterol which triggers an inflammatory response in the vessel wall.

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

This research delves into the unique cultural approach of the Tenggerese people, an Indigenous community in East Java, Indonesia, regarding elderly care. It focuses on their traditional practices of bakti (‘filial piety’) and sayan (‘mutual aid’), deeply ingrained in the community's lifestyle and va…

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

The electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an essential half-reaction for the utilization of hydrogen as a sustainable fuel, via the conversion of hydrogen to electrons and protons facilitated by the ORR. In the most common fuel cells, the ORR is requires high loadings of non-abundant platinum…

In my research, we developed a method to distinguish knots. A knot is a mathematical depiction of the everyday knot that occurs in ropes and cords.

Glycoside hydrolases (glycosidases/GHs) are widely abundant enzymes in all kingdoms of life and are important biocatalysts that catalyze the hydrolysis of glycosidic linkages in oligo/polysaccharides, glycoproteins and glycolipids with tremendous efficiency

Promotor: J. van der Greef, T. Hankemeier; Co-promotor: H.A. van Wietmarschen

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body, makes treatments less effective. It is important to unravel the mechanism of metastasis.

The demand for neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets is rapidly growing, while the neodymium supply chain is under pressure. Recycling can alleviate these issues. This thesis investigates the potential for deploying novel magnet recycling technologies and their environmental consequences.

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

The PID-directed shift in PIN polarity has been broadly accepted as one of the essential mechanisms for the regulation of auxin transport polarity.

A common method to solve expensive function evaluation problem is using Bayesian Global Optimization, instead of Evolutionary Algorithms.

The filamentous bacteria Streptomyces are widespread inhabitants of terrestrial soils.

Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic disease caused by blood dwelling parasitic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, and it is classified as the second most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease, second only to malaria.

A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Prof.dr. M. van Heel

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

Streptomyces are prolific producers of enzymes and secondary metabolites, including more than 50% of all clinical antibiotics. This makes them highly attractive for medical, biotechnological, and industrial purposes.

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the main reasons for drug attrition during pre-clinical and clinical phases of drug development as well as for drug withdrawal post-marketing.

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

Several single-stranded RNA viruses make use of Xrn1-resistant RNAs in their 3’ untranslated regions of their genome RNAs in order to increase their pathogenicity.

The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.

The redox-conversion reaction of metal-disulfide and metal-thiolate complexes are important, as they may shed light on electron-transfer reactions that often occur in Nature.

Empirical Legal Studies in Leiden focuste op het bouwen van een interdisciplinaire gemeenschap van rechtsgeleerden en sociale wetenschappers die samen juridische vraagstukken onderzochten op het snijpunt van recht en gedrag, waarbij diverse soorten methoden werden gebruikt.

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

The growing demand of energy indicates that global energy resources in the form of fossil fuels will not be sufficient in the future. In order to solve potential future energy problems development of a sustainable hydrogen economy is highly desirable.

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Mariana Gkliati het proefschrift 'Systemic Accountability of the European Border and Coast Guard'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. P. Rodrigues en prof.dr. L. Besselink (UvA).

Thermodynamics is one of the founding scientific pillars that has helped us better understand heat engines, biology, ecosystems, and even black holes. While it fundamentally describes large systems by examining the bulk behavior of their constituents, it is anchored in the statistical equivalence of…

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the cancers with the highest mortality rate, despite a relatively low incidence.

Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp

Metal-organic compounds hold great promise as photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) agents, leveraging their unique geometric and electronic properties to achieve precise spatiotemporal control over drug activation.

Kim Beerden vertelt vanuit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden over beelden, altaren en inscripties die ons iets vertellen over deze lokale godin uit het huidige Zeeland in de Romeinse tijd.

Miko Flohr vertelt in deze tweedelige podcast over zijn onderzoek in Paestum, Ostia, Herculaneum en Pompeii.

Kennis van moslimsamenlevingen is onmisbaar om in een geglobaliseerde wereld te kunnen functioneren en om onze eigen Nederlandse maatschappij goed te begrijpen. In Leiden verdiepen onderzoekers zich in de talen, cultuur, religie, rechtssystemen en geschiedenis van moslimsamenlevingen en zetten daarmee…

Op 27 november 2019 promoveerde David de Boer met zijn proefschrift Religious Persecution and Transnational Compassion in the Dutch Vernacular Press 1655-1745. Voor zijn onderzoek analyseerde hij een paar honderd pamfletten, kranten en tijdschriften die voornamelijk werden gepubliceerd in de zeventiende-eeuwse…

‘The Grumpy Cat’, wie kent hem niet? Dit wereldberoemde fenomeen was tot voor kort nog onbekend bij Dr. Erik Kwakkel. Maar na een razend populaire foto van een middeleeuws manuscript met kattenpootjes op Twitter kreeg de mediëvist er ineens 1000 volgers én een Grumpy Cat-koppeling bij. “Ik heb op deze…

Wat hebben lakenhandel en slavernij met elkaar te maken? Best veel, bewijst de bachelorscriptie van geschiedenisstudent Sjoerd Ramackers. Hij toont aan dat lakenhandelaar Daniel van Eijs nauw verbonden was aan vier plantages in Berbice, een voormalige Nederlandse kolonie aan de noordkust van Zuid-Am…

Het Instituut voor Geschiedenis feliciteert Mirjam de Bruijn met het verkrijgen van een VICI-subsidie voor het onderzoek 'Connecting in Times of Duress: Understanding Communication and Conflict in Middle Africa’s Mobile Margins.'