Wij voeren multidisciplinair onderzoek uit op het niveau van moleculen, cellen en organismen binnen de dierkunde. Ons doel is om fundamentele kennis te vergroten over gezondheid en ziekte.

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Op 10 oktober 2019 verdedigde Janneke Vink haar proefschrift 'The Open Society and Its Animals'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P.B. Cliteur.

The mission of our group is understanding how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. We believe better science communication can improve our society and engage many different groups with science, also improving science.

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Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Animal diet studies are critical for understanding ecological processes such as trophic interactions, energy flow, and nutrient cycling. By examining what animals consume, ecologists gain insights into species specialization, predator-prey relationships, and ecosystem management.

Brendan Carroll verdedigde op donderdag 30 oktober zijn proefschrift:

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

Het veranderen van de onderzoekscultuur begint met een vorm van betrokken, gezamenlijke en kritische reflectie die collectieve actie kan stimuleren. Dit commentaarartikel beschrijft hoe participatieve workshops kunnen worden ontworpen als een effectief instrument voor cultuurverandering binnen wetenschappelijke…

Obesity may alter how a person absorbs, distributes, metabolizes or excretes medication. This thesis describes how obesity affects drug levels in the blood for antimicrobial agents, such as ciprofloxacin and fluconazole.

In dit artikel onderzoeken Bart Schuurman & Sarah Louise Carthy de verschillen tussen geradicaliseerde individuen en de algemene bevolking.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

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

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

In populations with a seed-bank, individuals can temporarily become dormant and refrain from reproduction until they can become active again. The repository of all dormant individuals in the population is called the seed-bank. Seed-banks are observed in many taxa, including plants, bacteria and other…

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Promotors: C.A.J. Knibbe, Anthonius de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M.J. van der Vorst

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Op 16 december 2019 verdedigde Jan-Harm de Villiers zijn proefschrift 'The Anthropomorphic Hegemony of Subjectivity: Critical Reflections on Law and the Question of the Animal'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P. Cliteur.

Radio jets are important to the evoultion of galaxies. However, it is still not fully understood how a radio jet can be triggered.

This thesis develops a method for direction dependent calibration of the ionosphere in radio interferometric data.

In this work, I explore the creation of new methods that optimize simulations of the gravitational N-body problem. Specifically, I take advantage of the recent popularity of Machine Learning methods to find tools that can suit this problem.

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester

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

Molecular materials have been a subject of interest in fundamental research and applications for decades, and have been studied as bulk crystals, (thin) films and as individual molecules, due to the large variety in their properties. This dissertation explores pentacene crystals near the two-dimensional…

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, A. Iovita

This thesis focuses on the application of lipid-based nanomedicine in drug delivery, including small molecular antitumor drugs and biomacromolecules including mRNA, and evaluates their biological performance.

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that human macrophages can be induced to exert direct anti-tumor activity against osteosarcoma cells. Our observation that the induction of macrophage anti-tumor activity by L-MTP-PE required IFN-gamma may be of relevance for the optimization of L-MTP-PE therapy in…

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

Promotor: F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M. Bonsangue

In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.

CrO2, a half-metal ferromagnet, has shown great promise for superconducting spintronics applications for nearly two decades.

With the rise of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens, the possibility of a post-antibiotic world is quickly becoming reality.

We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.

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.

Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

The database research community has made tremendous strides in developing powerful database engines that allow for efficient analytical query processing.

The ultimate goal of cosmologists is to find a cosmological model able to explain the current observational data.

De "Hub for Impactful and Engaged Research (HIER)" is een coördinerend netwerk dat de Universiteit Leiden, de Technische Universiteit Delft, de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum en het Erasmus Medisch Centrum met elkaar verbindt om de maatschappelijke betrokkenheid…

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

De onderzoeksmaster Classics (research) van de Universiteit Leiden maakt je vertrouwd met multidisciplinair onderzoek naar de Griekse en Romeinse wereld.

De onderzoeksmaster Assyriology (research) van de Universiteit Leiden is een multidisciplinaire opleiding in de talen, literatuur en cultuur van het Oude Nabije-Oosten.

De onderzoeksmaster Egyptology (research) van de Universiteit Leiden is een multidisciplinaire opleiding in de talen, literatuur en cultuur van het Oude Egypte.