Around the world, mindfulness has become big business. This course combines conventional scholarly inquiry from multiple disciplines with experiential learning to provide a responsible, comprehensive, and inclusive education about mindfulness as a contemporary phenomenon.

Sinds de oprichting is LUC een college voor onderwijsontwikkeling en experimentatie. In de missie van het college wordt LUC beschreven als "een plek van innovatie op het gebied van didactiek, curriculumontwerp en studentwelzijn." Deze visie wordt toegepast via een studentgerichte benadering in het onderwijs…

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In this dissertation (titled: Exploring the Synergies between Transfer in Reinforcement Learning and Procedural Content Generation) we explore how the two research fields named in the title, namely Transfer in Reinforcement Learning (TRL) and Procedural Content Generation (PCG) can synergize togethe…

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Promotie

Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

Viral diseases constitute one of the major challenges in modern medicine. Membrane-targeting have broad-spectrum potential and could distinguish viral membranes from the host cell plasma membrane by the difference in membrane curvature.

The aim of this thesis is to present novel techniques for proving cryptographic schemes secure against quantum adversaries. Most results are within the context of an idealized model called the ‘quantum random-oracle model’.

Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. This course examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy,…

Leidse onderzoekers ontdekten dat Noord-Koreaanse dwangarbeiders op grote schaal in Polen werken. Hoogleraar Koreastudies Remco Breuker presenteert op het congres ‘Slaves To The System’ op 6 juli een rapport over de misstanden in Polen.

This thesis presents the systematics, epidermal defense, and bioprospecting of wild orchids.

The upscaling of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data is recognized as one of the main challenges in the ex-ante LCA of emerging technologies. This challenge arises since industrial-scale system specifications for these technologies are unknown and industrial data is lacking.

Discovery and development of Central Nervous System (CNS) drugs is hampered by high attrition rates.

Aan het LUCL pogen onderzoekers om de taaldiversiteit van de inheemse bevolking van Amerika te begrijpen, te bestuderen en te behouden.

Multicopper oxidase, laccase, can efficiently reduce oxygen to water and are mostly used in the enzymatic biofuel cells.

This dissertation explores how we can make anomaly detection—identifying unusual or faulty behavior in complex systems—more trustworthy and effective, with a focus on smart manufacturing.

In this thesis, mathematical modeling and simulation was applied as a tool to inform quantitative decision making in oncology drug discovery and development.

In the last decades, activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) has emerged as a powerful chemical tool that may aid the ever-challenging drug discovery process.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.A.G.J. Orrit

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

Dynamical systems describe the evolution of objects in a space over time and may be used to model physical phenomena. Due to this, much research is dedicated to understanding the mathematics of dynamical systems.

Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is een van de instituten van de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen.

Artificial intelligence algorithms govern in subtle, yet fundamental ways, the way we live and are transforming our societies. The promise of efficient, low‐cost or ‘neutral’ solutions harnessing the potential of big data has led public bodies to adopt algorithmic systems in the provision of public…

Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp

Less than 1 in 10 drug candidates that enter phase 1 clinical trials actually gets approved for human use.

The glycosylation reaction is a pivotal reaction in creating new and complex oligosaccharides.

The clinical potential of applying synthetic lethality to cancer treatment is famously demonstrated by the BRCA1/PARP1 paradigm: a tumor specific defect in BRCA1 – a component of the DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway homologous recombination (HR) – results in a remarkable sensitivity to PARP1…

Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo

Soil is a home for an unbelievable diversity and abundance of microbial life that is essential for supporting life on our planet.

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials which derive their unusual properties from their structure rather than their composition.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: S.J.T. van Noort

In the Schouwburgstraat, LUGO is currently redesigning the back-garden in order to increase biodiversity and make it a more beautiful space. Throughout October 2023 until March 2024, we will be making changes to the garden with our team of volunteers.

To gain more insight into the evolutionary development of orchid flowers and fruits, the orchid species Erycina pusilla was studied. The evolutionary origin of the median petaloid sepal, the callus on the labellum, and the stelidia was studied.

Anton Bosgieter heeft de Scriptieprijs Frans gewonnen voor zijn bachelorscriptie. Anton deed hiervoor onderzoek naar de Koreaanse tv-serie The Great Seducer.

Boven de Noord-Koreaanse hoofdstad zouden drones met flyers hebben gevlogen. Aan NU.nl vertelt hoogleraar Koreastudies Remco Breuker meer over de situatie.

Kiemproject: Hoe kunnen metaforen bijdragen aan betere maatschappelijke betrokkenheid bij quantumwetenschap en -technologie, en welke factoren beïnvloeden de acceptatie of weerstand tegen metaforen bij zowel experts als leken?

Noord-Koreaanse dwangarbeiders worden nog altijd tewerkgesteld in de Europese Unie. Volgens onderzoekers, waaronder hoogleraar Koreastudies Remco Breuker van de Universiteit Leiden, nemen ook Nederlandse bedrijven schepen af van een werf die Noord-Koreanen inzet.

Maureen Kuijs, derdejaars student van de BA Koreastudies, is een van de studenten die dit jaar de 2020 Global Korea Scholarship ontving. Met deze beurs kan Maureen, met financiële steun van de Zuid-Koreaanse overheid, aan de master Korean Language and Literature aan Yonsei University beginnen.

Noord-Koreaanse strafkampen doen niet onder voor nazikampen. Maar zolang het land economisch geïsoleerd blijft, halen internationale reprimandes niets uit, schrijft Noord-Koreadeskundige Remco Breuker in de opiniebijlage van de NRC op 21 februari. Breuker bepleit invloed via de mijnindustrie.

Sinds 2009 behaalden 91 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

This thesis investigates the structural evolution and assembly of galaxies since the first few billions years after the big bang.

The studies in this thesis are focused on the physical effects in the flat band materials. The results contain the discovery of strong enhancement of RKKY spin-spin interactions with specific geometric arrangement and dynamical generation of excitonic order parameter with high magnitude.

Promotor: P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk

Terugblik over de laatste 40 jaar op de belangrijkste veranderingen in de zorg en onderzoek, waar transparantie, verantwoording en richtlijn centraal zijn komen te staan. Aan de hand van de ziekte van Huntington en het cerebrovasculaire accident worden belangrijke veranderingen in de zorg en het onderzoek…

The work described in this Thesis is focused on the assembly of oligosaccharide fragments derived from a fungal polysaccharide, galactosaminogalactan (GAG) and fragments of the exopolysaccharide Pel, generated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.