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.

Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Universite Bordeaux I)

This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

Studievoorlichting

Lezing, Oort lecture

This research delves into a region of space known as the interstellar medium (ISM), which is essentially the area between the stars filled with gas and dust.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

Promotor: V. Vitelli, Co-promotor: J. Paulose

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: J.B.F. Juurlink

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.A.L. Biessen, Prof.dr. T.J.C. van Berkel

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

Promotor: J.A. Bouwstra Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

The work described in this dissertation contributes to a better mechanistic understanding of nanoparticles in vivo. To achieve that goal, we used the zebrafish as a highly predictive pre-screening model of nanoparticles.

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

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.

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo

This thesis describes the design, characterization and application of dextran based crosslinked network.

Membrane fusion is a vital process in living organisms and is mediated by zipper-like proteins.

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: C. W. J. Beenakker, Yu. V. Nazarov, Co-promotor: J. Tworzydlo

Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

This dissertation revolves around the design and implementation of novel instrumentation and related measurement techniques, at the single molecule level, for use in biophysical research. Chapter 1 presents an introduction to the field of fluorescence-based single molecule measurements. In particular,…

Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries

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

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)

Congres/symposium

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.

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

Single-molecule spectroscopy has become a powerful method for using organic fluorescent molecules in numerous applications.

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

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

Promotor: J. Schaye

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

The plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development through polar cell-to-cell transport-generated maxima and minima. PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers determine the direction of this auxin flow through their asymmetric placement on the plasma membrane (PM).

The bacterial cell wall is a nearly universal structure that offers protection and gives the cell its shape. However, environmental stressors, such as cell wall-targeting antibiotics and hyperosmotic conditions, can induce bacteria to shift to a wall-deficient state. It is unknown whether the lack of…

Fungal infections pose a significant threat to individuals with compromised immune systems and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, they continue to jeopardize patient’s health.

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.