Onderstaand een overzicht van alle vakken die door de afdeling Economie worden verzorgd.

Het negende nummer van het Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference is verschenen. Ditmaal is het thema ‘Reinventing Boundaries in Times of Crisis’.

Stephanie Rap en Yannick van den Brink, beiden universitair docent bij de afdeling Jeugdrecht, hebben hun onderzoeken gepresenteerd tijdens het 11de EU Forum on the rights of the child: Children deprived of their liberty and alternatives to detention, dat van 6 tot 8 november 2017 plaatsvond in Brus…

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

De Leidse Hortus botanicus heeft een van de grootste collecties levende planten op het gebied van Azië van Europa. Die rijkdom is allang niet meer alleen het domein van de botanicus. Multidisciplinair onderzoek, onderwijs én het publiek horen thuis in de Hortus, vindt bijzonder hoogleraar Paul Kessler.…

Promotores: C.A.J. Knibbe, D. Tibboel, Co-Promotor: P. Bruins

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

It has been a long-standing mystery how complex biological structures emerge from such seemingly uncoordinated building blocks as cells and tissues, in the presence of only minimal environmental guidance.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Co-Promotor: Rychard Bouwens

In this thesis new methodologies are developed for the detection and systematic study of radio sources in the early universe. This allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, the activity of supermassive black holes, and the final phase transition of our universe:…

In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

In this thesis we study products of linear error correcting codes.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: G.J. Herczeg

Discover the Summer School Program Population Health Management by LUMC and learn about strategies to deal with current issues and developments in healthcare.

Een delegatie van de Universiteit Leiden brengt van 18 tot 26 november een bezoek aan een aantal Japanse universiteiten en onderzoeksinstellingen voor samenwerking op het gebied van onderzoek en onderwijs.

Van onderwijs tot een verrijkende ervaring

Grensverleggend geschiedenis leren.

Studeer Archeologie aan Universiteit Leiden en pas de theoretische kennis en je praktische vaardigheden direct toe in het veldwerk.

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 Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with applications ranging from medical diagnostics to archaeological research.

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.

The prevalence of obesity (BMI >40 kg/m2) has increased rapidly over the recent years, not only in adults, but also in children and adolescents.

This thesis explores different avenues to develop insurmountable antagonists for CC Chemokine Receptors, such as CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5.

This thesis describes the development and optimization of the first molecular tools to study the enzyme PLA2G4E.

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

Sewer pipes are an essential infrastructure in modern society and their proper operation is important for public health. To keep sewer pipes operational as much as possible, periodical inspections for defects are performed.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck

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

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

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

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

De onderzoeksgroep Governance of Crises bestudeert fenomenen, dynamieken en actoren die te maken hebben met crisisgovernance. Het Crisis Research Center (CRC) van de Universiteit Leiden maakt deel uit van deze onderzoeksgroep.