Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

Errors are everywhere, and mechanical failures are especially common: buckled grain silos and cracked support columns are, justly, seen as an issue to be avoided.

The European Council and the European Commission have a similar role in agenda setting. Both place issues on the EU agenda. However, these institutions have distinct designs. They have different political attributes (the European Council has considerably more political authority) and information-processing…

The main goal of this thesis is to achieve advanced control of binding properties in bis-pyrrolic and macrocyclic pyrrolic receptors by light.

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This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

Quantum computers are a proposed fundamentally new type of computer. They aim to perform some computations much faster than previously possible by exploiting phenomena at the quantum scale, called superposition and entanglement.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

This multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

Search and conversational systems have become central to how people access information and perform tasks.

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Wat zegt de verkiezingsuitslag over de staat van Nederland? Tijdens het Verkiezingsontbijt van studievereniging Diqit gingen studenten en experts hierover in gesprek. Duiders als Hans-Martien ten Napel, universitair hoofddocent Staats- en Bestuursrecht, constateren een nieuwe scheidslijn in de Nederlandse…

Wat zegt de verkiezingsuitslag over de staat van Nederland? Tijdens het Verkiezingsontbijt van studievereniging Diqit gingen studenten en experts hierover in gesprek. Duiders als Hans-Martien ten Napel, universitair hoofddocent Staats- en Bestuursrecht, constateren een nieuwe scheidslijn in de Nederlandse…

Kiemproject: Hoe kunnen metaforen bijdragen aan betere maatschappelijke betrokkenheid bij quantumwetenschap en -technologie, en welke factoren beïnvloeden de acceptatie of weerstand tegen metaforen bij zowel experts als leken?

Onderzoek naar depressie bij kinderen, Leidse alumni in de Tweede Kamer en een uitzonderlijke afstudeerprestatie van een van onze studenten: wat deze onderwerpen gemeen hebben? Ze staan centraal in onze best gelezen verhalen van 2021.

Hoe kunnen we opiniepeilingen en het gebruik daarvan verbeteren? Over die vraag bogen zich ruim 100 peilers, journalisten en wetenschappers tijdens de bijeenkomst Peilingoproer aan de Campus Den Haag van de Universiteit Leiden. De Leidse politicoloog Tom Louwerse organiseerde die bijeenkomst samen met…

De toon van het politieke debat verhardt, ook in Nederland. Dat komt volgens hoogleraar Klinische Psychologie Willem van der Does onder meer doordat emoties in het stemhokje veel belangrijker zijn dan rationele overwegingen. ‘Je kunt niet blijven judoën als er ook een kickbokser meedoet.’

Partijen presenteren ieder hun eigen ‘oplossingen’ om de samenleving ‘veiliger’ te maken. Hoe verhouden de partijstandpunten zich tot wetenschappelijk onderzoek over het terugdringen van criminaliteit?

De wetenschappelijke onderbouwing van beleid wordt cruciaal geacht voor goed bestuur. Maar ondanks de overvloed aan beschikbare kennis uit onderzoek en evaluaties, weten we nog maar weinig over de daadwerkelijke invloed die dergelijke evidence heeft op overheidsbeleid. Het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Power…

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

Het begrijpen van het veranderende landschap van extremisme in de 21e eeuw.

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Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

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?

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

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The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

Quantum hardware comes with a different computing paradigm and new ways to tackle applications. Much effort has to be put into understanding how to leverage this technology to give real-world advantages in areas of interest for industries such as combinatorial optimization or machine learning.

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.

Despite the fact that gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most studied nanoparticles, there is still a necessity for new approaches allowing for effective protective coating to enable wider use of GNPs in biomedical applications.

Lipid formulations have demonstrated strong potential for nucleic acid delivery,particularly with the success of COVID-19 vaccines. Despite these advances, manyaspects of lipid formulations remain unclear.

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Curved single crystals provide variable, but well-defined surface structures.

This thesis revolves around the electronic spectroscopy of molecules in the laboratory and the search for the carriers of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs).

This article 'Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership' assesses the role, influence and core aspects of the EU High Representatives’ (HR/VPs) “political leadership” in the context…

Galaxies form and live inside dark matter haloes. As a consequence, they are exposed to the tidal fields generated by the surrounding matter distribution: this imprints a preferential direction to the galaxy shapes, which leads to a coherent alignment on physically close galaxies, called intrinsic a…

Trigonostemon Blume is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 59 species.

This thesis manuscript explores the use of video games as tools for conceptual exploration and academic research.

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

Streptomyces are multicellular, Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum of actinobacteria which produce a high amount of bioactive natural products of which the expression is tightly coordinated with the life cycle.

A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

This thesis describes the development and optimization of the first molecular tools to study the enzyme PLA2G4E.