In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.

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.

Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

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This thesis discusses the discovery potential of Intensity Frontier experiments.

In this thesis, we have used numerical approaches to study the effects of translational symmetry breaking on strange metallic systems as realised by the holographic duality⁠.

Detecting nanoscopic objects plays an important role in nanoscience in particular, in the rapidly growing field of nanobiology. The forebear to modern super-resolution microscopy for single molecule investigation, is fluorescence microscopy.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.J.J. Groenen, Co-Promotor: M. Huber

This thesis is about cosmological inflation and its relation to observations.

This thesis explores interfacial conductance and electric field-effects in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures.

We use DNA strands to stabilize few-atom silver clusters, which show unique optical and chemical properties. This thesis involves the study of these constructs for various applications.

My PhD research is devoted to studies of the conjectural cluster-algebraic symmetry in the theory of topological string, which is the simplest, however already non-trivial sector in the theory of string.

The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.

Onderzoeksgroepen in het Biological & Soft Matter onderzoeksprogramma ontrafelen de mechanismen in biologische processen en ontwikkelen nieuwe zachte materialen die geïnspireerd zijn door de natuur.

In de geest van ‘eenheid door verscheidenheid’ is ons doel het bevorderen van inzicht in en waardering voor het wonder dat dezelfde natuurkundige wetten en wiskundige concepten van toepassing zijn op de hele natuur, van de grootste tot de kleinste energie- en lengteschalen. Wij streven naar de toepassing…

Like a mixture of oil and water, lipid membranes separate into two liquid phases.

Promotor: E.R. Eliel, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

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Op 23 en 24 november vond op het Europees Universitair Instituut in Florence een bijeenkomst plaats ter gelegenheid van het 25 jarig bestaan van de Ruimte van Vrijheid, Veiligheid en Recht. Dit is het beleidsterrein waarbinnen de Europese Unie zich bezighoudt met Justitie en Binnenlandse Zaken.

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Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that a measurement collapses a wavefunction onto an eigenstate of the corresponding measurement operator.

During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.

The overarching goal of this thesis is to set the foundations, but also make the first essential steps towards establishing a comprehensive, mesoscopic, hydrodynamic theory of epithelial tissues. The stage is set by an exhaustive study of topological defects in passive p-atic liquid crystals, singularities…

Stochastic resetting is simple enough to be approached analytically, yet modifies stochastic processes in a non-trivial way.

One of the most important correlation functions in physics, especially in cosmology, is the energy density, which describes how much energy is present at each point in spacetime due to matter fields. A key contribution to the energy density of the primordial universe comes from gravitational waves (GWs),…

In this thesis we investigate cosmology and the large scale structure of the Universe using cosmological simulations.

This thesis describes how to scale down concepts of macroscopic mechanical metamaterials to the thermal scale using a system of flexibly-linked colloids.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt

In this thesis unconventional tools based on fluidic interfaces were developed to study the surface and interfacial chemistry of graphene, to characterize the intrinsic properties of graphene, to disentangle the effects of substrate and of the environmental factors, and to improve handling protocols…

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-promotor: S. J.T. van Noort

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

This PhD-thesis presents a study on micron-sized particles, so-called colloids. By controlling the chemical and physical properties of these particles, such as the interparticle interaction and the particles’ shape, colloids can act as building blocks that self-assembly into larger structures.

The ability to count is a property not often attributed to materials, despite the abundance of memory in materials. Regardless of how a material stores information, it is often difficult to retrieve exactly ‘what’ a material remembers.

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: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Promotor: T. Schmidt

The thesis describes the use of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, in continuous wave and pulse modes, to address the interaction of α-Synuclein (αS) with membranes and the aggregation of αS.

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

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