Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

The role of the interfacial environment during electrochemical reactions has been increasingly valued, especially for those reactions involving protons or hydroxyl ions.

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

With the help of quantum mechanics, digital quantum hardware may be able to tackle some of the problems that are too difficult for ordinary computers. But despite these expectations and the ongoing effort of the research community, reliable quantum computers are not yet realized in a lab setting.

Single-layer graphene (SLG) has attracted considerable interest as a proton exchange membrane for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), owing to its atomic thickness, mechanical robustness, and unique proton permeability.

Zouden ketogene interventies in de toekomst van de behandeling van autismespectrumstoornissen (ASS) kunnen veranderen? Bret Scher en Eline Dekeyster onderzoeken hoe ketose voeding mensen met autisme en andere hersenaandoeningen kan ondersteunen.

Er hangen enkele donkere wolken boven de Europese subsidies voor ‘excellente’ wetenschappelijke onderzoeksprogramma’s. Daarom moeten onderzoekers vooral vertellen hoe belangrijk deze beurzen zijn. Dat zei voorzitter Jean-Pierre Bourguignon van de European Research Council (ERC) donderdag 24 april tijdens…

Jean-Eric Paquet, een van de directeuren-generaal van de Europese Commissie, bracht op 20 februari een bezoek aan de Universiteit Leiden. Hij was onder de indruk van de gedrevenheid van de wetenschappers, de grote diversiteit aan onderwerpen die zij onderzoeken en de kracht van de samenwerking in het…

Verstoringen in de darmflora kunnen invloed hebben op mentaal welzijn. Hoe kan deze kennis worden gebruikt bij het voorkomen van stress-gerelateerde aandoeningen? Psycholoog Laura Steenbergen zoekt het uit met een projectsubsidie van het Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) en de Gratama-Stichting.

Op initiatief van burgemeester Henri Lenferink is een eerste verkenning uitgevoerd naar de mogelijkheden van meer Leidse samenwerking op het terrein van hersenen. De uitkomsten van deze verkenning zijn uitermate positief. De Leiden Bio Science Park foundation heeft opdracht gekregen om de samenwerking…

Op 3 mei jongstleden werd de 10e Niko Tinbergenlezing georganiseerd. De lezingen werden dit jaar verzorgd door Steven Pinker en Rivke Jaffe. De beelden van de lezing van Steven Pinker zijn nu online terug te kijken en daarnaast is er een fotoreportage gemaakt.

The basic program comprises a total of twelve courses organized by the Research School, that have been purpose-developed for training and support of PhD students and Research MA students who specialize in Medieval Studies (history, art history, and literary history, in particular).

Alumna Fleur van Elk slaagde cum laude voor de research masteropleiding Cognitive Neuroscience en begon haar PhD traject aan de Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam. Voor Humans of Psychology vertelt Fleur over studeren, werken en wat ze wil meegeven aan psychologiestudenten.

Cholesterol influences many pathways, including serving as precursor for adrenal steroidogenesis. Imbalance of cholesterol levels has been implicated in several diseases including cardiovascular diseases and its underlying pathology, atherosclerosis.

Our recent excavations have focused on the more recent New Kingdom/Late Period (ca. 1500-332 BCE) material.

Op 12 januari 2022 verdedigde Mirjam Franke het proefschrift 'Over de grens van de onrechtmatige daad'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.mr. A.G. Castermans en prof.mr. J.H. Crijns.

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Glycoconjugate vaccines are composed of microbial poly- or oligosaccharides covalently linked to a carrier protein.

Online cursus The Importance and Power of Music in our Society

Promotor: F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M. Bonsangue

A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.

Learning from small data sets in machine learning is a crucial challenge, especially when dealing with data imbalances and anomaly detection. This thesis delves into the challenges and methodologies of learning from small datasets in machine learning, with a particular focus on addressing data imbalances…

Diverse types of exoplanets such as gas giants on close-in orbits (hot Jupiters) and young massive giants on wide orbits (super Jupiters), with no analogs in the Solar System, pose challenges but also opportunities to our understanding of planet formation and evolution.

Dynamical systems describe the evolution of objects in a space over time and may be used to model physical phenomena. Due to this, much research is dedicated to understanding the mathematics of dynamical systems.

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

This thesis aimed to investigate the impact of exposure dynamics, relative contributions of ENPs(particle) and ENPs(ion), and dosing regimens on the toxicity of ENPs varying in different physico-chemical properties, on the composition and functioning of soil microbial communities.

Promotors: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Prof.dr.ir. H.H. de Iongh

This thesis investigates how galaxies form and what diversifies the evolutionary histories of galaxies.

Chapter 2 describes a post-synthetic methodology to introduce a fluorescent label in highly lipophilic, Pam3Cys based conjugates.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

This thesis presents the systematics, epidermal defense, and bioprospecting of wild orchids.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

S.S. Kolipaka’s thesis questions and investigates the survival prospects of reintroduced tigers and their offspring’s in the human dominated landscape of Panna tiger reserve in India.

CONSENT (Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy) is a research project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. The question central to this research is whether recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed…

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh, C.J.M. Musters

As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

Multicopper oxidase, laccase, can efficiently reduce oxygen to water and are mostly used in the enzymatic biofuel cells.

This PhD-thesis analyses the relationship between the parties’ choices in the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis’ assessments of the election manifestos and coalition agreements over the period 1986-2017, and tries to explain this relationship.

To improve cancer treatments, personalized medicine approaches have aimed to identify exactly which mutations are driving tumor development in a given patient and specifically target these mutations using precision therapies.

The upscaling of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data is recognized as one of the main challenges in the ex-ante LCA of emerging technologies. This challenge arises since industrial-scale system specifications for these technologies are unknown and industrial data is lacking.

Als een nieuwe methode is ontwikkeld om een (neuro-)psychologische aandoening of hieraan gerelateerde gedragsfactoren te herkennen en te behandelen, kan deze nog niet direct in de klinische praktijk worden ingezet. Eerst moet de methode geëvalueerd worden, bij voorkeur in gerandomiseerde, gecontroleerde…

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, J. Neefjes, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…