In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

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.

Promotor: W. Jaffe, Co-promotor: K. Meisenheimer

Promotor: T. Schmidt

This thesis advances our understanding of lipid uptake, a vital first step in lipid metabolism, by developing innovative click chemistry-based tools to study how immune cells internalize lipids.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

EuDEco (modellering van de Europese Data Economie) is een Coordination & Support Action (CSA) die financiering ontvangt van het Europese Horizon 2020 programma.

The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Three major cosmology-focused missions are planned for the next decade: the Euclid space telescope, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

IoT technology poses serval opportunities to supply chains. This thesis employs grey correlation and forecasting models, system dynamics, agent-based modeling, and ex-ante LCA to investigate and quantify the opportunities and risks of IoT-enabled sustainable supply chain operations from both industrial…

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

Publicaties die voortkomen uit het AFITE-project

The use of increasingly large and diverse datasets to guide urban climate action has implications for how, and by whom, local governments are held accountable.

CMLCA is a software tool that supports the technical steps of the Life Cycle Assessment. The focus of the program is on advanced computational aspects of life cycle inventory calculations.

Software development is a complex process. It is important that software products become stable and maintainable assets.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Improvements of weak gravitational lensing shape measurements are presented and some used for data analysis.

Door technologische en maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen komt er meer informatie op ons af dan ons brein kan verwerken. Hoe beïnvloedt dat onze besluitvorming, als individu en samenleving? En kan het ook beter? Dat gaat Lotte van Dillen met haar leerstoel onderzoeken.

Learning a programming language is challenging. Even one of the first –but crucial– concepts to learn, variables, is hard to grasp. Variables can represent different roles and functions within a code and need to be named appropriately to support code comprehension and debugging.

Promotie

This course explores international arbitration as one of the most common methods of international dispute settlement. You will gain an in-depth understanding of international arbitration through the analysis of its role as a mechanism of dispute settlement, its institutions, the fields of law it is…

De masteropleiding Media Studies van de Universiteit Leiden combineert theoriekennis met praktijkervaring om zo een ideale springplank te vormen voor een carrière in de literatuur, film, fotografie of journalistiek.

This thesis focuses on the development of sample-preparation methods for small amounts of samples and applying the developed methods to muscle tissues to investigate the mechanisms involved in sarcopenia.

In dit project denken we na over de relatie tussen territorium en besmetting. Door de historische, politieke en conceptuele verbanden te traceren tussen territoriale grenzen en migratie aan de ene kant en ziektegerelateerde fenomenen zoals besmetting, immuniteit en inenting aan de andere kant, vragen…

The major and ultimate aim of metabolomics is to obtain an answer to a specific biological or clinical question.

CONSENT (Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy) is a research project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. The question central to this research is whether recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, J. Neefjes, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

A series of workshops at Leiden University and the University of Hamburg will act as a forum in which international legal scholars whose research adopts a behavioural approach can present their works-in-progress and gain feedback from a broad range of peers, including scholars in economics and cognitive…

De Universiteit Leiden heeft een schenking van ruim 2 miljoen euro ontvangen van Stichting Utopa voor de sectie Sociale, Economische en Organisatiepsychologie. Met deze schenking kan een Fonds Psychologie en Economisch Gedrag worden ingesteld voor onderzoek en onderwijs. Daarnaast komt er een kenniscentrum…

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

The thesis mainly contributes to the characterization of Majorana fermions as they appear in the Condensed Matter context.

Projecten van de afdeling Environmental Biology