Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

The ultimate aim of this project is to improve cooperation between courts in different Member States.

Zojuist verschenen: Nederlands internationaal privaatrecht Special issue: Private international law and finance

This dissertation explores how we can make anomaly detection—identifying unusual or faulty behavior in complex systems—more trustworthy and effective, with a focus on smart manufacturing.

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

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

Promotor: P. J. J. Hooykaas Co-promotor: B. S de Pater

Join-in courses zijn MA-cursussen over middeleeuwse onderwerpen gegeven binnen vastgestelde MA-programma's van de zes deelnemende universiteiten van de Onderzoekschool. Op aanvraag zijn deze vakken toegankelijk voor studenten van andere (Nederlandse) universiteiten. De cursusbelasting en het aantal…

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

Met zijn MA scriptie

The University of Bologna organizes a Summer School in Classical Languages, offering intensive courses in Latin and/or Greek (20 June – 23 July 2022). The deadline for applications is: 10 June 2022.

The monograph

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

To this day, all cyclophellitol-based inhibitors and ABPs have been close analogues of their natural substrate counterparts. As a result, these probes showed high selectivity towards their target glycosidases.

Before the large scale use of renewable energy sources can be implemented in our society, the storage of electrical energy needs to be tackled. Storage the energy as hydrogen via the reduction of protons is a good option.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel

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.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: W.A. Kosters

Symposium

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, B. Sinsin, Co-Promotor: H.H. de Iongh

LUC-historica Jacqueline Hylkema ontmaskerd vervalsingen uit de vroegmoderne Nederlandse Republiek in het onderzoeksproject 'De Valse Republiek'.

Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

On 15 December 2022, the following thematic report of the European Equality Law Network was published: Christa Tobler, Indirect discrimination under Directives 2000/43 and 2000/78, for the European Commission, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union 2022.

Radboud University is looking for a PhD researcher who will investigate the afterlife of medieval thought in early modern Europe through the study of concrete instances of intellectual transfer, for instance the appropriation of specific medieval authors or early modern revaluations of specific themes…

In this thesis, we show how MRFM can usefully contribute to the field of condensed-matter.

In zijn nieuwe boek 'Overstromingen en beheer van grote laaggelegen rivieren' onderzoekt Paul Hudson, universitair hoofddocent fysische geografie bij Leiden University College in Den Haag, de menselijke invloed op rivieren in laagland. De afgelopen twintig jaar is de druk op grote laaggelegen rivieren…

Joris Larik is de nieuwe onderwijsdirecteur bij Leiden University College The Hague (LUC). Het komt op een mooi moment: hij is er precies tien jaar werkzaam. Na veel ervaringen en uitdagingen blikt hij nu vooruit. ‘Hoe blijven we vernieuwen?’

The next generation of high-contrast imaging instruments on space-based observatories requires sophisticated wavefront sensing and control in addition to a high-performance coronagraph.

De kersverse Amerikaanse president Donald Trump hield op 20 januari zijn inaugurele rede. Zijn toespraak was weinig verzoenend en nam een loopje met de waarheid, menen verschillende Leidse wetenschappers. Een enkele hoogleraar is positiever: 'hij wil de strijd aanbinden met de radicale islam.'

Lezing

The conference 'Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology' is focused on identifying and examining the connections that create or lie behind parallels between philological methods and traditions in various cultures. Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2022.

Dit was het programma van De Kennisboomgaard 2025:

This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archaeology over the past three decades and founded the Human origins research group at Leiden University…

Abstract submission is now open for the international conference of the ELS Academy, in Amsterdam on September 1 and 2. For the 2022 International ELS Conference, we invite all involved in legal research using qualitative and/or quantitative methods to submit abstracts, that may focus on ongoing or…

Abstract submission is now open for the international conference of the ELS Academy, in Amsterdam on September 1 and 2.

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

The majority (80%) of e-waste generated globally are recycled informally in developing countries.

In this thesis we study products of linear error correcting codes.

Leiden University would like to express its concern about the proposed Hungarian higher education draft law, which, if adopted, would make the functioning of Central European University (CEU) in Budapest nearly impossible. These changes would endanger the academic freedom vital for CEU’s continued operation…

The interest of this thesis lies in spin transport in normal metals and superconducting half-metallic junctions.

Lezing, Peace Histories Seminar Series

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.

Thijs Bosker, Universitair hoofddocent Milieuwetenschappen bij Leiden University College (LUC) en het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen (CML), heeft samen met 19 andere partijen een subsidie van in totaal 7 miljoen euro ontvangen voor het project PAPILLIONS. Hoofdaanvrager is het NIVA, het Noorse RIVM.…

This thesis describes the genetic and prokaryotic diversity of giant barrel sponges.

Als psycholoog én piloot is Bert Busscher geïnteresseerd in het fenomeen vliegangst. Busscher ontdekte dat aan de hartslag van mensen tijdens een therapeutische vlucht is af te lezen hoeveel last zij nog van hun vliegangst hebben. De hartslag na de vlucht voorspelt zelfs of de vliegangst op lange termijn…

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.

In 2067 allemaal online naar de psycholoog? Een stoomcursus tijdreizen of juist terug in de tijd met Vincent van Gogh langs de hallucineermeetlat? Onder psychologen zijn Winnie Gebhardt, Andrea Evers en Jan Dirk Blom van de partij in de Nacht van Kunst & Kennis.