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…

This thesis aims to demonstrate how the achromatic nature and design flexibility of liquid-crystal optics can be used to improve high-contrast imaging instruments to facilitate detailed exoplanet characterization.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

Promotor: Peter Stevenhagen

This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.

Promotores: H.S. Overkleeft; G.A. van der Marel Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.

An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

Promotores: B. Erez, P. Stevenhagen, Co-Promotor: B. de Smit

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

Promotor: C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, Co-promotor: Sandra de Weert

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Prof.dr. J. Matysik (Universitaet Leipzig)

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

The main focus of the thesis is the discovery and development of novel inhibitors of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs).

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

Metal-based prodrugs based on ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes have proven to be very suitable for application in both photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photo-activated chemotherapy (PACT).

In this thesis an activity-based probe was discovered that could visualize the activity of PLAATs. With an optimized gel-based ABPP assay in hand, screening of a compound library led to the discovery of alpha-ketoamides as a hit for PLAAT3.

To get an idea of the science communication products and research that is possible, a few examples of student projects of recent years are shown below.

Less than 1 in 10 drug candidates that enter phase 1 clinical trials actually gets approved for human use.

The major and ultimate aim of metabolomics is to obtain an answer to a specific biological or clinical question.

Artificial intelligence algorithms govern in subtle, yet fundamental ways, the way we live and are transforming our societies. The promise of efficient, low‐cost or ‘neutral’ solutions harnessing the potential of big data has led public bodies to adopt algorithmic systems in the provision of public…

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

Op 11 juni 2020 verdedigde Sabine Witting haar proefschrift 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr.mr. S. van der Hof.

In the last decades, activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) has emerged as a powerful chemical tool that may aid the ever-challenging drug discovery process.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Prof.dr. A.H. Meijer

In design optimization problems, engineers typically handcraft design representations based on personal expertise, which leaves a fingerprint of the user experience in the optimization data. Thus, learning this notion of experience as transferrable design features has potential to improve the performance…

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important bulk chemical that is used in various industrial processes. More than 95% of the H2O2 used in industry is made via the anthraquinone process during which a large amount of energy is going to waste.

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Promotores: A.P. IJzerman, H.W.T. van Vlijmen

Promotor: J.W. van Holten

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

Wat als ernstig zieke patiënten hun diagnose niet willen horen? Moet een arts een patiënt altijd alle beschikbare informatie geven? Communicatieonderzoeker Liesbeth van Vliet, medisch antropoloog Annemarie Samuels en onderzoeksstagiaire Fiona Brosig stelle deze vragen over open informatievoorziening…

Sinds de oprichting is LUC een college voor onderwijsontwikkeling en experimentatie. In de missie van het college wordt LUC beschreven als "een plek van innovatie op het gebied van didactiek, curriculumontwerp en studentwelzijn." Deze visie wordt toegepast via een studentgerichte benadering in het onderwijs…

Afgestudeerden van de bachelor Security Studies aan de Universiteit Leiden hebben toegang tot diverse masterprogramma's en uitstekende carrièrekansen. Ontwikkel je als beveiligingsstrateeg en vergroot je kansen op een succesvolle carrière in zowel de publieke als private sector.

Grensverleggend geschiedenis leren.

We verwelkomen gastwetenschappers wier onderzoek aansluit bij onze uiteenlopende expertisegebieden. De tekst gaat verder in het Engels.

Congres/symposium, Call for papers

This thesis investigates the structural evolution and assembly of galaxies since the first few billions years after the big bang.

Promotores: Prof.dr. F.P. Israel, Prof.dr. P.P. van der Werf

Statistical distributions in LCA and converting between different representations of these distributions.

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Co-promotor: Frans Snik

We show that Kirchhoff ’s law of conservation holds for non-commutative graph flows if and only if the graph is planar. We generalize the theory of (Euclidean) lattices to infinite dimension and consider the ring of algebraic integers as such a lattice.

This thesis focuses on the study of transient and variable radio sources in the universe.