Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death worldwide. The most important risk factor for developing this disease is high cholesterol levels in the blood.

Atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis is caused by an immune response which is directed against (modified) lipoproteins which accumulate in the vessel wall.

Catalysis is of extreme relevance in the production of everyday materials and plays a central role in many aspects of our life.

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

The rapidly increasing commercial application of metallic nanoparticles within products will inevitably enhance the amount of NPs being released into soil.

A tidal basin is an inland sea which is almost entirely enclosed by land and connected to the open sea by a tidal inlet. Through the tidal inlets interaction takes place between the tidal basin and the open sea.

During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.

Enzymes are innately sensitive to changes in the amino acid sequence, which largely constrains their evolutionary potential, i.e., evolvability. This evolutionary burden can be alleviated in the presence of stabilizing mutations, which increase the buffering capacity of enzymes to tolerate mutations…

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier

There is concern about the threat that nanoplastics (NPs) may pose to both wildlife and humans. This thesis explores the mechanisms of toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) in chicken embryo.

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

The last decades it is increasingly recognized that acute as well as chronic postoperative pain is an important problem. Treatment and prevention of postoperative pain is a challenge, especially in special patient populations where there is only limited guidance on how to optimally use opioids.

Metals surfaces form a group of effective catalysts for the reaction of small molecules such as hydrogen (H2).

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

In de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen is de verwevenheid van onderzoek, onderwijs en impact vanzelfsprekend.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp

The growing demand of energy indicates that global energy resources in the form of fossil fuels will not be sufficient in the future. In order to solve potential future energy problems development of a sustainable hydrogen economy is highly desirable.

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

This thesis aimed to investigate the impact of exposure dynamics, relative contributions of ENPs(particle) and ENPs(ion), and dosing regimens on the toxicity of ENPs varying in different physico-chemical properties, on the composition and functioning of soil microbial communities.

Samenwerking vormt de kern van ons werk binnen het thema 'Health and well-being in a healthy society'.

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

Synthetic microswimmers take an important place within the interdisciplinary field of active soft matter.

How can we bridge the gap between experts and the general public?

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron, Co-Promotor: M.T.M. Emmerich

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

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

The present thesis focuses on the pharmacological concept of drug-target interaction, which dates back to the beginning of modern pharmacology.

The main focus of the thesis is the discovery and development of novel inhibitors of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs).

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

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

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Jaarlijks sluiten we de PRE-Classes af met een slotevenement, waar verschillende leerlingen hun resultaten presenteren. Kijk de presentaties van 2017 hieronder terug!

De onderzoeksgroep Terrorism and Political Violence van de Universiteit Leiden bestudeert de oorzaken van radicalisering, de tactieken van extremistische groeperingen, en de effectiviteit van anti-terrorismebeleid. We onderzoeken ook de rol van media en de invloed van postkoloniale erfenissen in de…

Het belangrijkste doel van dit onderzoek is om de steden van het Romeinse Nabije Oosten in de keizertijd in kaart te brengen, met een focus op locatie, stadsgrootte en stedelijke kenmerken, om de vorm van het stedelijke systeem en de niveaus van integratie te bestuderen.

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

World Teachers Festival 2024 - Celebrating and exploring language, culture, diversity and criticality in teaching and learning

The ultimate aim of this project is to improve cooperation between courts in different Member States.

Actuele vraagstukken uit zowel Nederland als de internationale gemeenschap, zetten we in om de nieuwsgierigheid van studenten en onderzoekers te prikkelen.

The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

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On Being a Scientist is geselecteerd voor het Inscience filmfestival én genomineerd voor de NTR Audience Award. De speelfilm is voor die gelegenheid op donderdag op 3 november in Nijmegen te zien.

De veertien Nederlandse universiteiten hebben een digitaal magazine uitgebracht waarin de onderzoekers van het programma Digitale Samenleving in tekst en beeld uitleg geven over dit gezamenlijke onderzoek.

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.