Deze colleges zijn in het Engels, u kunt vragen stellen en reageren in het Nederlands.

Learning a programming language is challenging. Even one of the first –but crucial– concepts to learn, variables, is hard to grasp. Variables can represent different roles and functions within a code and need to be named appropriately to support code comprehension and debugging.

Lezing

What is leadership? Can it be taught, and if so, how? The International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP) helps students find their own style, say ILLP graduate Marko Simovski and his former coach Annah Neve in an interview: 'It’s about you, discovering you.'

Read all about the experiences of our students who followed one of the Academic Language Center's (online) courses in the past semester.

Landconflicten tussen boeren en de overheid of grote plantagebedrijven: in veel landen in het Globale Zuiden zijn ze aan de orde van de dag. Zo ook in Indonesië, waar duizenden landconflicten al jaren voortduren zonder dat er een oplossing gevonden wordt. Burgergemeenschappen beroepen zich bij deze…

Een arme vrouw uit Java plukt drie cacaovruchten van een plantage, om als zaailing te gebruiken. De rechter veroordeelt haar voor diefstal, maar ze hoeft niet de gevangenis in. Het is één van de voorbeelden van rechtsdifferentiatie waar Adriaan Bedner als hoogleraar Recht en samenleving in Indonesië…

De Psychologie Research Seminars worden georganiseerd door en voor medewerkers van het instituut. Ze bieden de gelegenheid om kennis te delen, nieuwe inzichten op te doen en collega’s vanuit verschillende disciplines te ontmoeten.

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.

Als afgestudeerde van de faculteit Geesteswetenschappen maak je deel uit van een waardevol netwerk. Ontdek hoe je in contact blijft met andere alumni en met de universiteit!

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?

Ontdek het studieprogramma van de éénjarige MSc Nederlandse Politiek aan Universiteit Leiden: kernvak, keuzevakken, onderzoeksvaardigheden, scriptiebegeleiding en stageoptie.

Bekijk de toelatingseisen voor de MSc Nederlandse Politiek aan Universiteit Leiden: vereiste bacheloropleiding, academische credits en taalvaardigheidseisen.

De effecten van veel behandelingen worden in belangrijke mate bepaald door andere factoren dan het geneesmiddel of de behandeling zelf. Zo kunnen placebo-effecten even groot zijn als het effect van bijvoorbeeld antidepressiva of pijnstillers. Factoren die hieraan bijdragen zijn het vertrouwen in de…

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

Hoe beïnvloedt de vernietiging van universiteiten in Gaza, ook wel 'scholasticide' genoemd, het wetenschappelijk leven en wat zijn de theoretische en juridische onderbouwingen van de term?

Congres/symposium

Studievoorlichting, On Campus Experience

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

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

A tidal basin is an inland sea which is almost entirely enclosed by land and connected to the open sea by a tidal inlet. Through the tidal inlets interaction takes place between the tidal basin and the open sea.

This thesis examines enzyme domain architecture and engineering to improve the breakdown of lignocellulose and starch, abundant biopolymers crucial for sustainable biofuel and biochemical production. Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) facilitate this degradation, but the structural complexity of…

Despite being the object of intense study, embryonic development has been difficult to model due to a number of reasons. First, complex tissues can be comprised of many cell types, of which we probably only know a subset.

Promotor: Thomas Hankemeier, Co-promotores: Heiko van der Linden, Paul Vulto

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

More than 5,000 exoplanets have been found over the past couple of decades. These exoplanets show a tremendous diversity, ranging from scorching hot Jupiters, common super-Earths, to widely separated super-Jupiters on the planet/brown dwarf boundary.

As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).

Promotor: W. T. F. den Hollander, F. H. J. Redig

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-Promotor: J. de Jongh

Promotor: W. Jaffe, Co-promotor: K. Meisenheimer

This thesis discusses the physical and chemical processes than influence the composition of forming planets.

This thesis discusses several questions regarding the double ramification cycle as a Chow class on the moduli space of stable n-pointed genus g curves using tools from so-called logarithmic geometry.

The chemical and structural heterogeneity of toxoid vaccines makes their analysis challenging. However, detailed insights on a molecular level can be obtained by mass spectrometry.

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

One of the most important puzzles in modern astrophysics is the nature of dark matter.

The lysosomal β-glucosidase named glucocerebrosidase (GCase) is a retaining β-glucosidase that hydrolyzes the glycosphingolipid glucosylceramide (GlcCer) to ceramide and glucose at acid pH.

Streptomyces bacteria are a valuable source of natural products, many of which are used in the clinic or in biotechnology.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G. Miley & Prof.dr. J.M. van den Broek

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

Majorana fermions in superconductors are the subgap quasiparticle excitations that are their own antiparticles.

Special Issue in: Visual Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2016

The applications of studying the early development of insects range from agriculture to material science.

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

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