Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Doelman, Co-promotor: V. Rottschäfer

To address the fundamental questions of how life on Earth emerged and how common life may be in the Universe, it is crucial to know the chemical composition of the planet-forming material.

Promotor: V. Vitelli, Co-promotor: J. Paulose

Op 3 september 2019 verdedigde Ilektra Antonaki haar proefschrift 'Privatisations and golden shares: Bridging the gap between the State and the market in the area of free movement of capital in the EU'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. S.C.G. Van den Bogaert.

Prof. A.G.G.M. (Xander) Tielens wordt bij 1 januari bij de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen benoemd tot hoogleraar ‘Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium’. Tielens werkt momenteel als senior onderzoeker bij Ames in Moffett Field, Californië. Ames is een onderdeel van NASA. Daarnaast…

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

The spindle-assembly checkpoint (SAC) is a safety mechanism which secures accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis.

One of the key quests in astronomy is to study the growth and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Radio observations provide a powerful means of studying the formation of stars and subsequent buildup of distant galaxies, in a way that is unbiased by the presence of dust.

Humans and songbirds learn their vocalizations early in life by exposure to the vocalizations of adult conspecifics. Often, better learning outcomes are achieved with live, social, tutors than with audio-only exposure to vocalizations.

Increasing the efficiency of gene targeting (GT) as a genome editing tool in plants has been an important goal in plant biotechnology.

This thesis focus on the interaction between M dwarf stellar winds and Galactic cosmic rays and the possible effects on the habitability of exoplanets.

Op 15 februari 2022 verdedigde Morshed Mannan het proefschrift 'The Emergence of Democratic Firms in the Platform Economy: Drivers, Obstacles, and the Path Ahead'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.mr. I.S. Wuisman en prof.dr. J.A.A. Adriaanse.

In dit artikel presenteren Kellerman en Seddon een nieuw conceptueel kader waarin het concept van marktleesbaarheid centraal staat.

Who are open-source intelligence activists and how reliable are their contributions to public understanding of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

The thesis focuses on synthesis strategies in oligosaccharide campaigns, and the influence of protecting groups.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

In unconventional high temperature superconductors, supercurrent vortices are known to spoil the Landau levels. In this thesis the emergence of Landau levels is studied in different types of superconductors: Weyl superconductors, and the Fu-Kane heterostructure.

On Saturday 16 January 2016, the Faculty of Archaeology opened its doors to welcome over 100 archaeology and living archaeology enthusiasts from all over the Netherlands. They were participating in a full-day symposium organised by Céline den Engelsman and Casper van Dijk, BA3-students from the archaeology…

Promotores: J. Jonkers, K.E. de Visser

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.

Let A be a commutative algebraic group over a field K, and let G be a finitely generated subgroup of the K-rational points of A. The purpose of this thesis is to study the degrees of the Kummer extensions relative to A,K and G.

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’.

This thesis represents a comprehensive investigation into the control of cancer stemness and metastatic initiation using a combination of advanced zebrafish xenograft models and in vitro assays.

Het Multistakeholder Global Governance (MGG) Project is een vierjarig project dat onderzoekt in hoeverre en onder welke omstandigheden multistakeholderconstructies van mondiaal bestuur goed functioneren in termen van capaciteit, effectiviteit en legitimiteit.

Van zelfrijdende auto’s tot innovatieve medicijnontwikkeling, kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) gaat ons leven op uiteenlopende manieren fundamenteel veranderen. Onze computerwetenschappers bestuderen de technologie op een diep en fundamenteel niveau. Maar we zoeken ook naar medische toepassingen en antwoorden…

Op welke manier ontwikkelt de ‘rule of law’ zich in Westerse samenlevingen in het licht van de opkomst en verspreiding van diverse digitale technologieën en hoe kan de rule of law invloed hebben op het gebruik en de verspreiding van deze technologieën.

GLOBALINT is een baanbrekend onderzoek naar inlichtingendiensten in het ‘mondiale Zuiden’. De centrale vraag is ‘hoe beïnvloeden (on)democratische verschuivingen in politiek bestuur de inlichtingendiensten in de context van gewelddadig conflict?’

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, which holds the potential to simulate complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical numerical methods.Despite recent formidable advancements in quantum hardware, constructing a quantum computer capable of performing useful calculations remains challenging.In…

The primary goal of this research is to deepen our understanding of substrate-enzyme interactions in Glycoside hydrolases. For this purpose, Bacillus circulans xylanase (BcX) has been selected as a well-established model to examine the Michaelis complex and glycosyl-enzyme adduct.

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

In this thesis, the researcher developed a nanosystem based on the metallophilic Interaction between cyclometalated complexes.

Promotores: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Prof.dr. A. Fiore (TU Eindhoven)

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Smets, M. Stech

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.

The thesis is about how auxin and AGC kinases regulate male fertility. The main AGC kinases studied in this thesis is PDK1, PDK2 and AGC1.5, AGC1.7.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra

De masteropleiding International Organisation wordt aangeboden door de Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag. Op deze pagina wordt uitgelegd waarom studenten voor deze opleiding en locatie kiezen.

De masterspecialisatie Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy van de Universiteit Leiden was voorheen bekend onder de naam Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Autopaghy is an intracellular degradation system which targets cytosolic components to lytic compartments for degradation and recycling of the building blocks of the cell.

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

In this thesis, two potential therapeutic targets for diabetic nephropathy were dentified and investigated. First, we show that glomerular clusterin is upregulated in diabetic nephropathy and demonstrated that recombinant clusterin protein can protect the podocytes against oxidative stress in vitro.…

The research described in this Thesis was aimed at designing and synthesizing nature-inspired compounds as part of TB vaccine discovery.

Oorlog en terrorisme overschaduwen de aandacht voor het pre-Islamitisch erfgoed van het Arabisch schiereiland. Het nieuwe Leiden Centre for the Study of Ancient Arabia wil een breed publiek bewust maken van de antieke geschiedenis in deze regio.

Immunotherapies for cancer are an emerging class of therapeutic strategies which aim to treat cancer via augmentation of the immune system.

Sphingolipids are important membrane compounds with a variety of functions. In mammalian cells, different enzymes are involved in the metabolism of sphingolipids, but interruption of this metabolism process leads to different diseases.

Josien de Klerk en Tennessee Miller onderzochten de interactie tussen de ziekte- en herstelervaringen van studenten en de academische werkcultuur in deze context.