What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

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Where does the urge to collect come from? What are the explicit or underlying reasons for gathering large amount of objects?

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotors: A.I. Yanson, L.B.F. Juurlink

In de 19e eeuw werden Oudengelse gedichten geclaimd als cultureel erfgoed door verschillende niet-Engelssprekende naties, waaronder Scandinaviërs, Duitsers en Nederlanders. Deze concurrerende nationalistische, culturele toe-eigeningen gebeurden tegen de achtergrond van een groeiende interesse in de…

This thesis systematically analyzes the physical-chemistry of lipid-graphene interactions with the major objective of reconciliating the variety of results reported in the literature.

Promotors: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. H. Leirs (Univ. Antwerpen)

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

This work describes several studies into the electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR), both regarding mechanistical aspects and catalyst stability considerations. Mechanistic insights into carbon-carbon bond formation on a silver catalyst are described in Ch 2, were we find an acetaldehyde-like surface…

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

New PhD opportunities in Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies, a collaboration between the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Deadline for application: 31 March 2025.

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?

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

The radio sky harbours both galactic and extragalactic sources of arcminute- to degree-scale emission of various physical origins. To discover extragalactic diffuse emission in the Cosmic Web beyond galaxy clusters, one must image low–surface brightness structures amidst a sea of brighter compact fore-…

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

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

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. J. de Vries

This thesis explores the theoretical and observational properties of distant massive galaxies that harbour active black holes in their centres and shine brightly at radio wavelengths.

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

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

The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

A dense region of a gaseous and dusty cloud collapses to form a protostar surrounded by a disk and an envelope. This thesis uses both observations and models to study physical and chemical conditions of these protostellar systems which are likely where planets start to form.

Lysosomal acid glucosylceramidase (GBA1) is a lysosomal enzyme that degrades glucolipids with its main substrate being glucosylceramide (GlcCer). Defects in the GBA1 gene lead to glycosphingolipidosis Gaucher disease (GD), in which the hydrolysis of GlcCer is impaired and therefore, it accumulates in…

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

In this thesis we will explore the use of fuzzy systems theory for applications in bioinformatics.

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

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

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…

This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

De Braziliaanse president Jair Bolsonaro noemde COVID-19

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

Hoe verwerken we taal en spraak? Hoe voegen we de informatie op verschillende niveaus – intonatie, zinsstructuur, betekenis, toon, woorden, klanken - samen? Hoe staat de informatie op het ene niveau in verband met informatie op een ander niveau?

How do you engage society to stop biodiversity loss? How do you create political and social involvement to deal with climate change? And how do you balance the economic needs of industry with the negative effects of pollution? If you find these kinds of questions interesting, then this Pre-University…

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.