A Josephson junction is a device where a thin insulating barrier or a nanostructure is placed between two superconducting leads. Such a junction is essential to superconducting qubits that store quantum information due to its anharmonic spectrum.

How are new drugs developed? This question is central to the Minor Modern Drug Discovery (MDD), which covers the entire trajectory from disease to drug molecule and vice versa. The various research groups involved offer a complementary and interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the diverse subjects…

Drones blijken een goed hulpmiddel om door de mens aangebrachte veranderingen in het landschap in kaart te brengen. Geofysicus Till Sonnemann en zijn collega’s (archeologie) experimenteren ermee in moeilijk doordringbare gebieden in de Cariben.

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

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).

Wat betekent de intersoortelijke interpretatie van het gelijkheidsbeginsel voor de democratische rechtsstaat en is het mogelijk dieren een daarbij passende juridische en politieke positie te verschaffen, zonder te breken met de klassiek-liberale uitgangspunten van de democratische rechtsstaat?

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The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is responsible for light absorption and excitation energy transfer in plants and photosynthetic algae, while in high light it undergoes conformational changes by which it quenches excitations to prevent photodamage.

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.

Dissochaeta Blume (Melastomataceae, tribe Dissochaeteae) is well-known as a scrambling plant genus found in Southeast Asia, where it is an inhabitant of the tropical rainforests or evergreen forests.

In this PhD study, I aim to deepen our understanding of the influence of major mycorrhizal types, namely arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) and ectomycorrhizae (EM), on the global soil carbon cycle and their potential distribution changes under future environmental shifts.

This thesis studies operator-algebraic aspects of subproduct systems, a generalization of product systems of Hilbert spaces.

The main aim of my Ph.D. thesis is to further explore the value of using early developing zebrafish larvae (up to 5 dpf) as a model to study anxiety-like behaviour and their pharmacological modulation with drugs.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Jan-Hendrik Evertse, Co-promotor: Pascal Autissier

In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

The main objective of this thesis was to develop clinically relevant survival models for patients with high-grade soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities, in particular the development and validation of prediction models for use in clinical practice.

The main object of study in this thesis is an Arakelov inequalitywhich bounds the degree of an invertible subsheaf of the direct image ofthe pluricanonical relative sheaf of a semistable family of curves.

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

In this thesis, we have studied cell images from two types of cells, including pollen grains and the immune cells, neutrophils. These images are captured using a bright field microscope and a confocal microscope.

Promotor: F. Arbab, R. De Nicola, Co-Promotor: M. Tribastone

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. P.G. van Dokkum (Yale University)

Metabolomics is a powerful tool that can provide a comprehensive insight into the complexity of human biology and the pathophysiology of diseases. By analyzing the metabolome, which refers to the complete set of small (endogenous) molecules (with a mass <1500 Da) present within a given biological system,…

Cardiovascular diseases are still a major concern for the global health.

Data Science (DS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are omni-present and have the potential to be incorporated in various fields. However, in order to live up to this expectation, a good understanding of the techniques, their implications and limitations is required. In this minor you develop insights…

Het is moeilijk om je een andere samenleving voor te stellen dan een hiërarchische natiestaat. Dat komt deels doordat we alternatieve voorbeelden uit het verleden verwaarlozen, betoogt archeoloog Lewis Borck in het Journal of Contemporary Archaeology.

Het huidige bestuur van de Vereniging van Oud-Sterrewachters bestaat uit Niels van Weeren, Maaike Damen, Gerben Zwart en Anthony Brown (contactpersoon Sterrewacht).

Atoms and molecules are the basic units of matter. If we keep dividing a bar of gold or a glass of water into smaller parts, at the end we are left with a single gold atom or a water molecule.

Cardiovascular diseases are among the most frequent causes of death in the world. The main underlying pathology of cardiovascular diseases is the development of atherosclerosis in the medium and large-sized arteries.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

This dissertation is an experimental study of laser-generated, atmospheric pressure, transient toroidal helium plasmas.

Cardiovascular disease is a major global burden and atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathological process.

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

Promotores: H.A. Udo De Haes, P.M. Brakefield

With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.

This work is dedicated to interpreting in cohomological terms the special values of zeta functions of arithmetic schemes.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

The focus of the dissertation

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

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Cardiovascular syndromes are the major cause of death in Western societies.

Planets are formed in disks of gas and dust around young stars.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotor: J.J. Boelens, R.G.M. Bredius

This thesis consists of two main parts. The first part (Chapters 2 and 3) deals with a class of Markov process called Quasi-Skipfree (QSF) processes.