Het BOCA-project verkent nieuwe vormen van het communiceren van academische kennis als een manier om de band tussen de universiteit en de samenleving te versterken.

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

In een wereld waarin recht en moraal streven naar helderheid, orde en controle, daagt dit boek ons uit om het lang vergeten aspect onder ogen te zien: de tragische dimensie van het bestaan. Door te putten uit de oude wijsheid van de Griekse tragedie en de gepassioneerde urgentie van zowel atheïstisch…

Promotor: R. Gill, Co-promotor: P. Massart

This thesis is is made of three parts. The first part describes a generalization of the Chabauty's method, that can be used to determine the rational points of a curve such that s+g>r+1, where g is the genusof the curve, r is the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of the jacobian of the curve and s is…

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

The expanding population and economic activity are driving up global energy consumption. Simultaneously, there is an urgent need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources to mitigate the climate crisis, primarily caused by fossil fuel combustion.

The study of orchid flowers, fruits, and inflorescences is crucial due to the remarkable diversity of orchid species and their unique adaptations to pollinators and seed dispersers. However, our understanding of the evolution and development of these organs within the orchid family remains limited.

This PhD thesis concerns the topic of arithmetic geometry. We address three different questions and each of the questions in some way is about counting how big some set is or can be.

Op 6 november promoveert Niels Schoubben. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Niels!

There is no heritage without emotional sharing and clashing. This article explores the involvement of divergent emotions in heritage making by discussing the debate series of Imagine IC and the Reinwardt Academy and zooming in on the commemoration of slavery and imagery of ‘Black Pete’ in the Netherlands.…

Dit project onderzoekt hoe en waarom Nederlandse ondernemers betrokken waren bij de uitbuiting van de Engelse, Franse en Iberische rijken.

The work done during this PhD research, aims to investigate the effect of tidal heatingin the observability of extra-solar satellites around exoplanets.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Achucarro

Presents a novel philosophical account of psychedelic experiences, arguing that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics — such as meditation and yoga.

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Internationale experts van verschillende academische disciplines namen op vrijdag 8 en zaterdag 9 december 2017 te Leiden deel aan de internationale conferentie 'The

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

Novel entities may pose risks to humans and the environment. The small particle size and relatively large surface area of micro- and nanoparticles (MNPs) make them capable of adsorbing other novel entities, leading to the formation of aggregated contamination.

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

Het LAK biedt verschillende schrijfcursussen aan. Maak kennis met de wereld van verhalen verzinnen. Leer de basisvaardigheden van fictie schrijven en leer als schrijver je eigen stem vinden en zet de eerste belangrijke stap van een idee naar een verhaal. Of maak kennis met poëtische technieken. De keuze…

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Carbonaceous asteroids preserve a record of early solar system processes, where minerals and organic molecules, like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), offer clues to planetary evolution and prebiotic chemistry.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a gram-negative plant pathogen belonging to the family Rhizobiaceae, is the causative agent of crown gall disease, which can affect many plant species including agronomically important ones.

Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

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

Every organisms in the tree of life faces the same challenge: the length of its DNA exceeds the volume of the cell it needs to fit in. Several strategies have evolved to solve this problem, one of them being the expression of proteins that bind and organize the DNA.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo

Promotor: R. Verpoorte, Co-promotores: Y.H.Choi, N.R. Mustafa

The sequence-dependence of biomolecular interactions involving nucleic acids and proteins is essential for numerous processes inside the cell. Insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms have been obtained using various biochemical and biophysical methods on two different levels — bulk and sin…

On the largest scale, the Universe resembles a cosmic spiderweb. Most galaxies coexist in small groups within the threads of this web. At the nodes of the threads are enormous groups of galaxies forming the largest structures in the universe still held together by gravity: clusters of galaxies.

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: R. Fernandez.

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.

Het doel van het RAISE Onderzoek is om te onderzoeken hoe veerkrachtige mensen omgaan met stress. We kijken specifiek naar hoe belangrijke biologische systemen, zoals de HPA-as en het immuunsysteem, samenwerken met de hersenen en de sociale omgeving om veerkrachtig functioneren na moeilijkheden in de…

In the first part of this thesis we study the geometry of folding patterns.

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Mariana Gkliati het proefschrift 'Systemic Accountability of the European Border and Coast Guard'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. P. Rodrigues en prof.dr. L. Besselink (UvA).

Reconstructie van de taalgeschiedenis en prehistorie in de context van de Indo-Europese taalfamilie.

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, B. Sinsin, Co-Promotor: H.H. de Iongh

What are the pressing issues of our time, and how can different disciplines come together to address them? Studium Generale and Leiden University College (LUC) present the Global Challenges series: events that bring together researchers from LUC and experts from other disciplines to tackle a shared…

The coursework within the Science Communication and Society (SCS) specialisation prepares students for internships and a career in communication about science and health.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen (Università degli studi di Milano), Co-Supervisor: Ronald M. van Luijk