127 search results for “defence” in the Staff website
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Defence ceremony
When you have finished your dissertation, it is time to prepare for the defence procedure.
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Finalisation and PhD defence ceremony
When the PhD research has been completed and the dissertation is (nearly) finished, there are several more steps to take before you can defend it. For example, you must submit your manuscript and make preparations for the PhD defence ceremony.
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Maximilian Wachter
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A unique defence: Bacteria lose cell wall in the presence of virus
Bacteria temporarily live without their cell wall if dangerous viruses are near. A remarkable feature, as the cell wall is a sturdy barrier against threats. Still, the discovery has a logical explanation ánd might be of a consequence for fighting pathogenic bacteria, according to Véronique Ongenae,…
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Annemarie MeijerFaculty of Science
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coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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Anouk Koenderink
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Turning the tables on tuberculosis: boosting our own immune forces
Tuberculosis bacteria survive by hiding in our immune cells. In her PhD research, biologist Salomé Muñoz Sánchez explores how boosting the body’s own defenses might outsmart this deadly pathogen. Her work reveals two key proteins that help immune cells destroy the bacteria.
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Joint doctorate degree: PhD research at two universities
In some cases, PhD candidates are permitted to follow a PhD track that involves conducting research and receiving supervision at two institutions: Leiden University and another university. On this page, you can read what forms of agreement there are.
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Graduate School
Welcome to the Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities. On this website you'll find a wide range of information you might need as a PhD candidate. If you have any further questions, please contact the Graduate School Office.
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Regulations and guidelines
Guidelines, rules and other important information for PhD candidates are described in detail in various documents.
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Pelagic fish and harbour porpoise at North Sea wind farms Acoustic investigation and science communication
PhD defence
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Blueprints of Disease: Precision Platforms for Modelling Breast Cancer
PhD defence
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Individualization of Drug Clearance Predictions and Dose Regimens in Patients with Obesity Using Pharmacometric Approaches
PhD defence
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Gut Microbial Metabolomics to Understand Allergies in Early Life
PhD defence
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Algorithms for Analyzing Evolving Networks on the Dark Web & in Science
PhD defence
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Synthetic Affinity-Based Probes for ADP-Ribose Interactome Studies
PhD defence
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Tools for real-time study of bioorthogonal conversions in the living system
PhD defence
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From Inference to Influence: Applying Causal Game Theory to Complex Security Environments
PhD defence
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Measuring wellbeing in climate and socioeconomic scenarios
PhD defence
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Interplay of landscape and climate on Culex pipiens mosquitoes in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Tracing life through light: Towards detecting life on exoplanets with spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry
PhD defence
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Stochastic Amplitude Modulation of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves
PhD defence
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Post-quantum Security of Cryptographic Transformations in the Random Oracle Model
PhD defence
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Deep Generative Models for Engineering Design
PhD defence
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From labelled to the optimal clinical dose: Model-informed dose optimization in medical oncology practice
PhD defence
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Mathematical models for mechanically induced morphogenetic pattern formation
PhD defence
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Photocontrol of Transmembrane Anion Transport
PhD defence
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Hidden star formation in the early Universe
PhD defence
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Studying for a PhD
Leiden University guides PhD candidates step by step from the start to the defence. You will find more information here about admission, the PhD track, and completion, as well as answers to questions such as: what conditions must I meet? What requirements must my dissertation meet? And what is involved…
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Research in the media
How can you ensure that your research hits the headlines? How can you bring your research output, such as PhD research or a publication, to the attention of the public?
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Public relations
We can help you to bring the results of your research to the attention of the media. Ideally, you should do this before your article or book is actually published.
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Quantum Methods for Machine Learning and Classical Dynamics
PhD defence
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The unexplored functions of Toll-like receptor signaling: Immunometabolism, development and microbiome interactions
PhD defence
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Central Values of L-Functions of Twisted Modular Forms of Composite Level
PhD defence
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Guidelines for news articles
How do you write a good news article? Here are a number of guidelines to help you.
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For supervisors
As a supervisor, you are responsible for the supervision of your PhD candidate. Read here about your duties as supervisor and the procedures relating to this, as well as which forms you will need.
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External communication tools
Leiden University is proud of its research and teaching, its staff and its students. This is why we are keen to inform society of what goes on at the University.
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Minister wants to learn from dissertation on veteran policy
Theo van den Doel received his PhD in January for his research on veteran support. This showed that for long the government learned little from past missions. He has since presented his dissertation to the Lower House of Representatives, and the Minister for Defence, Kajsa Ollongren, has responded to…
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Work in the time of the coronavirus: ‘I miss the processions'
How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? This is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series of articles. This time we asked Erick van Zuylen, the University beadle. 'This year, I haven't been leading the PhD committee into and out of the chamber, wielding my beadle's…
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Let’s move! Exercise with your colleagues at work
Want to get fit at work with your team, department or faculty? In its Let’s Move campaign, the University Sports Centre is making exercise at work easy. Staff from the Faculty of Science got the ball rolling before the summer in a successful pilot with yoga, boot camp, boxing and self-defence classe…
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Jasper’s day – From Beijing to Paris to Leiden
Thursday 15 January starts with a long journey and ends with an equally long working day full of current issues. Jasper visits the Mathematical Institute with the scientific directors of our faculty and attends a meeting on collaboration with the Ministry of defence.
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Leiden Classics: the man behind the beadle
Almost everywhere in the world where the post exists, the beadle is a ‘master of ceremonies’ who only makes his appearance on special occasions. In Leiden the beadle does much more. He is indispensable at dissertation defences and orations. He directs ceremonies and is a master at calming nerves.
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Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD
A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Innovative Leiden research receives NWO grant
On January 24 Professor Annemarie Meijer and Dr Sander Wezenberg received a NWO grant for their research. The grant was awarded within the Open Competition Domaine Science-M programme and is intended for innovative research areas that can form the basis for the research themes of the future.
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this
Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD candidates begin by explaining their dissertation in words of one syllable. And it’s not just the PhD’s family and friends who appreciate this.