Na twee jaar coronamaatregelen gingen we in 2022 weer ‘terug naar normaal’. Migratie, verkiezingen, het slavernijverleden, Rusland en Oekraïne waren veelbesproken onderwerpen. Een terugblik aan de hand van de best gelezen nieuwsartikelen en andere gebeurtenissen.

Jaarlijks stelt de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid twee Meijers PhD-posities ter beschikking aan talentvolle onderzoekers. Eén positie staat open voor deelnemers aan het Pre-PhD Programme (PPP) en één positie staat open voor andere kandidaten van binnen en buiten Leiden.

Donderdag 17 november vond de 25e editie van de Multatulilezing met als thema

Na vele jaren was het dan eindelijk zover. Het Leidse pleitteam (bestaande uit Anne van der Meeren, Heleen Kleinjans, Dries van de Voort, Sophie Vonk en Remco de Lijster en begeleiders Femke Binnendijk en Rogier Kegge) heeft de jaarlijkse pleitwedstrijd van de Vereniging voor Bestuursrecht (VAR) gew…

In 2019 bestond de Universiteit Leiden 444 jaar. Deze bijzondere leeftijd vroeg om een bijzondere viering, samen met de inwoners van Leiden en Den Haag. In, met en voor de stad.

Het essay Voor de vooruitgang verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de 450e Dies Natalis van de Universiteit Leiden. In 2025 vieren we ons 450-jarig bestaan. Thema van dit lustrum is De tijd vooruit.

Een échte professor in de klas!

In 2022 is Leiden de European City of Science. Universitair docent Jaap de Jong heeft bijzondere opdrachten bedacht voor de masterstudenten Journalistiek om dit te vieren: ze gaan de stad in om kennis uit de stad in beeld te brengen.

Van 8-10 juni 2022 organiseert Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) haar eerste internationale conferentie in Den Haag. Deadline voor inzendingen: 22 april 2022.

Hieronder vind je de antwoorden op een aantal veelgestelde vragen over toelating tot de klinische specialisaties van de Master Psychologie.

Het onderwijsteam achter The Learning Mindset (TLM) van het Leiden University College heeft 800.000 euro gewonnen tijdens de uitreiking van de Nederlandse Hogeronderwijspremie 2022. Het team eindigde als tweede achter het team van Universiteit Twente. De prijs wordt jaarlijks uitgereikt tijdens het…

Met ingang van collegejaar 2021-2022 is de master Criminologie en Veiligheidsbeleid gevestigd in Den Haag en wordt twee derde van de vakken aangeboden in Den Haag. Zo zit de opleiding dicht bij de relevante partijen in het veiligheidsdomein.

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.

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

Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.

Hieronder vind je een overzicht van hoe onderzoekers van de faculteit Governance and Global Affairs en hun onderzoeken in de media verschijnen, en lees je meer over onderwerpen waar de faculteit zich mee bezighoudt.

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

Combinatorial games are games for two competing players, moving in a turn-by-turn fashion, in which there is no chance nor hidden information⁠. Chess, checkers and the simpler tic tac toe are well-known examples of this class of games, as well as game of go⁠.

Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.

The experiments described in this thesis employ local lentiviral knockdowns in brain areas of female zebra finches followed by behavioural assays consisting of preference and Go/Nogo tasks.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Promotor: Koen Kuijken Co-promotor: Henk Hoekstra

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

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. G.H. Baltes (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

Bicarbonate buffer is largely found in nature due to its ability to regulate pH variations around neutral values. As the pH changes, so does the speciation of the buffer.

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

This thesis considers multi-prover commitment schemes whose security is based on restrictions on the communication between the provers.

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?

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

Astronomical observations of cold regions in the universe show a rich inventory of ices. Part of these ices may end up on planets like our own, but in that journey they will be exposed to considerable amounts of radiation.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

This thesis deals with properties of Jacobians of genus two curves that cover elliptic curves.

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

The demand for neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets is rapidly growing, while the neodymium supply chain is under pressure. Recycling can alleviate these issues. This thesis investigates the potential for deploying novel magnet recycling technologies and their environmental consequences.

Heterogeneous catalysis is one of the fundamental processes of modern life, being common in industrial refinery and hydrogen vehicles, all the way to the living cell. The dissociation of H2 on Cu(111) is an important benchmark system for studying heterogeneous catalysis, with a large and varied amount…

A key step in the synthesis of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates is the formation of the glycosidic bond.

This thesis presents insights from our study of various correlated electron systems with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In ordinary metals, electron-electron interactions exist, but get substantially screened due to the sheer number of electrons.

This dissertation presents the results of the importance of creativity for ICT-students of Dutch universities of applied sciences (in Dutch: hogescholen), and the functioning of training courses that aim to promote creative abilities is highlighted.

Monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) is the principal enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). MAGL inhibition provides several potential therapeutic opportunities, including anti-nociceptive, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity.

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…