In this thesis, the research focuses on the properties of dark matter and dark matter haloes and how they connect with the galaxies we can observe in the Universe.

The experiments described in this thesis employ local lentiviral knockdowns in brain areas of female zebra finches followed by behavioural assays consisting of preference and Go/Nogo tasks.

Dit gedeelte bevat een overzicht van onze alumni, het loopbaanperspectief naast het doctoraat en "Alumni in beeld", waar we enkele voorbeelden geven van de carrières van sommige van onze alumni na hun promotie.

This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

The investigation into the bidirectional communication between the gut and its host is a rapidly growing area of research, attracting considerable attention for its potential to provide crucial insights into health and disease.

The ability to count is a property not often attributed to materials, despite the abundance of memory in materials. Regardless of how a material stores information, it is often difficult to retrieve exactly ‘what’ a material remembers.

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-…

A century ago, it was unclear whether the stars in the sky were clustered in groups, or widely spread in the universe.

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

This thesis explores how electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy can be used to investigate key biochemical processes.

This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archaeology over the past three decades and founded the Human origins research group at Leiden University…

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).

This thesis investigates Open-world Continual Learning (OWCL), a learning paradigm designed for intelligent systems operating in non-stationary environments with persistent exposure to unknown data.

Over the past two centuries, socioeconomic development has improved material living standards but has also intensified environmental pressures, including climate change and biodiversity loss.

The Economics and Governance specialisation of the Master in Public Administration teaches you to formulate problem-solving approaches to concrete policy issues found at the intersection between economics and public administration. This specialisation is a unique joint offering of the Department of…

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Het Centre for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) is een interdisciplinair academisch expertisecentrum met als doel het verrichten en verspreiden van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar waardengeladen vraagstukken in de publieke sector. In het bijzonder wordt gekeken naar de ethiek van de publieke ambtsvervulling…

Jasmina Mačkić, Universitair Docent Mensenrechten bij het Europa Instituut, heeft haar boek, Proving Discriminatory Violence at the European Court of Human Rights, gepubliceerd. Deze publicatie is gebaseerd op haar proefschrift die Mačkić in mei 2017 heeft verdedigd. Het onderzoek is mogelijk gemaakt…

This thesis aims to demonstrate how the achromatic nature and design flexibility of liquid-crystal optics can be used to improve high-contrast imaging instruments to facilitate detailed exoplanet characterization.

De onderzoeksgroep Intelligence and Security houdt zich bezig met inlichtingen en veiligheid binnen de Europese Unie. De aanpak is interdisciplinair en weerspiegelt de brede benadering van het ISGA. Inzichten uit onder meer ethiek, geschiedenis, recht, politicologie, psychologie en sociologie worden…

This dissertation explores how we can make anomaly detection—identifying unusual or faulty behavior in complex systems—more trustworthy and effective, with a focus on smart manufacturing.

In analogy to mathematical proofs, the goal of a proof system is for a prover to convince a verifier of the correctness of a claim.

It is an established fact that the Standard Model has to be extended to explain the so-called Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) phenomena: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and neutrino flavour oscillations.

Tuberculosis is a major global health problem caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, claiming more than a million lives annually.

LUC biedt veel mogelijkheden voor studenten om deel te nemen aan activiteiten tijdens hun studie. Binnen het college zijn er tal van initiatieven waaruit je kunt kiezen, en als het nog niet bestaat, probeer er dan zelf een te creëren!

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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.

Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

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Student organisation Teiresias organizes a lecture series on how to turn your master’s thesis into a publishable paper. In three days, experts from the world of academics and publishing will be presenting their advice on how to write your first publication. The aim is to cater specifically to the niche…

Quantummechanica voor iedereen

Professor Barend Mons has been appointed Chair of the Commission High Level Expert Group

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The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University is delighted to host the Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, a program designed to provide support and mentorship to scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early middle ages. In…

Van onderwijs tot een verrijkende ervaring

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

Students Practicing Citizen Journalism

De universiteit streeft ernaar dat alle studenten in hun opleiding kennismaken met duurzaamheidsthema’s en -vraagstukken, die zoveel mogelijk aansluiten bij de inhoud van hun opleiding.

75 jaar na Hiroshima en Nagasaki In samenwerking met Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling aldaar.

Het begrijpen van het veranderende landschap van extremisme in de 21e eeuw.

Om de Leidse papyrologie te versterken is in 2014 de Papyrologie+ (spreek uit: papyrologie-plus) groep opgericht, een samenwerkingsverband van alle onderzoekers van de Leidse Universiteit die zich bezighouden met (Abnormaal-) Hiëratische, Demotische, Aramese, Griekse, Latijnse, Koptische en Arabische…

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As per January 1st, Niek Strohmaier is part of Kifid’s arbitration committee.