Wat zijn we verplicht aan toekomstige generaties? En hoe verdelen we de kosten die komen met het naleven van deze verplichtingen op een eerlijke manier, wetende dat de wereld veel ongelijkheid en onrechtvaardigheid kent? Tim Meijers, filosoof en universitair docent, zal met een Veni-subsidie van 250.000…

De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek heeft een beurs van 750.000 euro toegekend aan het project ‘Visualizing the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society’. Onderzoekers gaan reconstrueren hoe zeventiende-eeuwse wetenschappers hun baanbrekende microscopische ontdekkingen visueel…

Negentien Leidse recent gepromoveerde onderzoekers kregen deze herfst een Veni-subsidie van NWO toegekend, zeven daarvan zijn voor onze faculteit. Elke onderzoeker krijgt 250.000 euro voor drie jaar onderzoek. Landelijk werden161 projecten gehonoreerd.

Op deze pagina vind je een overzicht van prijzen en subsidies die in 2023 zijn toegekend aan onze medewerkers en studenten, en de bijzondere benoemingen aan de Universiteit Leiden en andere instellingen.

In 2024 hebben medewerkers en studenten van de Universiteit Leiden veel mooie prijzen gewonnen en belangrijke onderzoekssubsidies binnengehaald.

In Mykeens Griekenland verschenen vanaf 1600 v. Chr. zeer veel monumentale bouwwerken zoals grote graftombes. Waarom stopte die bouwlust 400 jaar later abrupt? Archeoloog Ann Brysbaert onderzoekt de mogelijke oorzaken dankzij haar ERC Consolidator Grant.

Dit team zorgt ervoor dat alle Una Europa activiteiten van de Universiteit Leiden en het LUMC soepel verlopen en biedt ondersteuning aan collega's die direct betrokken zijn bij Una Europa activiteiten.

Wat maakte het vroege islamitische rijk zo succesvol en hebben we het verhaal gemist door cruciaal bewijs te negeren? De Arabische veroveringen in de 7e eeuw veranderden de sociaal-politieke configuraties in het Middellandse Zeegebied en Eurazië voorgoed. Toch weten we niet echt hoe de Arabieren erin…

In dit project wordt het volledige ecosysteem van Middelnederlandse gebedenboeken onderzocht om vragen te beantwoorden over de rol die deze speelden in – en invloed die deze hadden op – religie, cultuur en samenleving in de laatmiddeleeuwse Lage Landen.

Bekijk de toelatingseisen voor MSc International Organisation aan Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag. Inclusief benodigde 80 ECTS, Engelse taalnormen (IELTS/TOEFL) en ondersteunende documenten.

‘Ontzettend blij’ was Markus Altena Davidsen toen hij hoorde dat hij en zijn collega’s een subsidie hadden ontvangen van het KNAW-Pilotfonds Wetenschapscommunicatie. Samen met partners uit het hele land werken ze aan een boek dat middelbare scholen moet inspireren hun onderwijs over religie en levensbeschouwing…

De onderzoeksvoorstellen van wiskundige Peter Bruin, natuurkundige Daniela Kraft, bio-farmaceut Rawi Ramautar en sterrenkundige Catherine Walsh en nog 7 onderzoeksvoorstellen van talentvolle Leidse wetenschappers zijn gehonoreerd met een Veni-subsidie van 250.000 euro. Landelijk zijn 155 Veni’s vers…

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

Understanding DNA repair mechanisms is essential for advancing plant biotechnology and crop improvement. This study investigates how double-strand breaks (DSBs), induced by CRISPR/Cas systems, are repaired in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and how these processes influence Agrobacterium tumefaciens…

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.A.J. Knibbe, Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. K. Allegaert (Leuven)

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

The progressive loss and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). The onset and progression of PD can be triggered by multiple risk factors, for instance, genetic mutation, environmental exposure, and aging.

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.W. van der Vaart

In light of climate change, it is crucial to determine whether plant species can adapt to future climates to avoid extinction. Plants adapt to various conditions by altering their functional traits, such as leaf size or photosynthetic rate. Some traits appear linked and vary together between species,…

For many system in statistical physics the microcanonical and canonical ensemble are equivalent in the thermodynamic limit, but not for all.

In this work, I explore the creation of new methods that optimize simulations of the gravitational N-body problem. Specifically, I take advantage of the recent popularity of Machine Learning methods to find tools that can suit this problem.

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

Promotor: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promotor: Todor P. Stefanov

This thesis investigates opinion dynamics on random graphs through the lens of the voter model, a classical interacting particle system used to describe how consensus emerges in networks.

Interactive exploration of large volumes of data is increasingly common, as data scientists attempt to extract interesting information from large opaque data sets. This scenario presents a difficult challenge for traditional database systems, as (1) nothing is known about the query workload in advance,…

This thesis introduces a relational interaction model and a practical tool for describing, visualising and generating interactive dialogues.

This dissertation combines the use of defined microenvironments, high-resolution fluorescence microscopy, and time-resolved analysis, to study intracellular and cellular motility.

Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

This thesis involves three topics: benchmarking discrete optimization algorithms, empirical analyses of evolutionary computation, and automatic algorithm configuration.

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Inverse problems are problems where we want to estimate the values of certain parameters of a system given observations of the system. Such problems occur in several areas of science and engineering. Inverse problems are often ill-posed, which means that the observations of the system do not uniquely…

Industrial manufacturing processes, such as the production of steel or the stamping of car body parts, are complex semi-batch processes with many process steps, machine parameters and quality indicators.

This PhD thesis concerns the topic of arithmetic geometry. We address three different questions and each of the questions in some way is about counting how big some set is or can be.

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

This thesis describes the design and development of subunit‐selective inhibitors of particular catalytically active subunits of human constitutive proteasomes and immunoproteasomes.

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

All crested and marbled newts (the genus Triturus) suffer from an unusual genetic abnormality, called a balanced lethal system, that kills exactly half of their offspring. How can a trait so disadvantageous have survived millions of years of natural selection?