Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: M.R. Hogerheijde

The plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development through polar cell-to-cell transport-generated maxima and minima. PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers determine the direction of this auxin flow through their asymmetric placement on the plasma membrane (PM).

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.

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

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.

Natural vanilla flavor is one of the most important in the world. However, the cost of this flavor is expensive. Production of this flavor by alternative methods, could reduce the cost.

The solar system was formed approximately 4.56 billion years ago. Despite the numerous theories that have been developed over the years, the formation and evolution of the solar system still remain unclear.

Detecting planets during their formation stages is crucial for understanding the history and diversity of fully developed planetary systems like our own. However, observing young planets directly is challenging because they are often deeply embedded within their host protoplanetary discs, rich in gas…

Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau

Promoter: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promoter: Todor P. Stefanov

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

In this thesis, Quantum computing, norms, and polynomials, we investigate the interplay between quantum mechanics, complexity theory, and functional analysis, three central areas of physics, computer science, and mathematics, respectively.

Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

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

Humans can see the world through the eyes of other humans and imagine what they know, want, and intend. This competence is known as Theory of Mind.

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

Hospital pharmacies face significant challenges: the demand for sterile drug reconstitutions is increasing, while specialized personnel remain scarce. Automation offers a potential solution, but its practical implementation in hospitals is still unclear.

The zebrafish is a promising vertebrate model organism in early drug discovery and development.

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

In Nederland bieden ongeveer 130 van de 700 middelbare scholen een tweetalige stroom aan. Toch is er nog maar weinig wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar CLIL (content and language integrated learning). Met haar proefschrift wil Evelyn van Kampen (promovendus bij het ICLON) bijdragen aan een beter begrip…

This thesis focusses on the temperature structure in protoplanetary disks. The relation between structures seen in the dust and gas-phase molecules is investigated.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Seagrass is a marine flowering plant with special adaptations to coastal and marine environments, playing a crucial role in providing a wide range of ecosystem services.

Technologies that help to enhance our educational environments can be found everywhere.

Het middeleeuwse wereldbeeld in kunst en iconografie 1100-1500

Op 6 januari promoveert Kefan Bao. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Kefan!

Op 9 september 2009 viert de opleiding Life Science and Technology (LS&T) haar tienjarig bestaan.

Firearms and violence in Europe–A systematic review by Katharina Krüsselmann, Pauline Aarten, Marieke Liem

In dit artikel presenteren Andrea Bartolucci en Michele Magni een evidence-based onderzoek naar de spontane opname van slachtoffers en de verdeling van patiënten in de onmiddellijke nasleep van de Manchester Arena Bombing.

Onderzoekers van LIACS werken aan het bedenken van de computers van morgen die de ruggengraat zullen vormen van de Cloud en Edge computing paradigma’s en ‘the Internet of Things’. In dit verband zijn we betrokken bij onderzoek en ontwikkeling van high performance computing systemen, embedded & real-time…

In samenwerking met Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, naar aanleiding van de tijdelijke tentoonstelling 'Dichter bij het zwarte gat', te zien t/m 5 januari 2025.

Maandelijkse avondprogramma's van Studium Generale in co-productie met de Leidse Schouwburg - Stadsgehoorzaal. Kom luisteren en meedenken in het sfeervolle Café Caat in het centrum van Leiden.

De opleiding Life Science and Technology (LST) stond 9 september 2014 met een feestelijk gebakje stil bij haar 15 jarig bestaan. Het gaat bijzonder goed met de opleiding. Er zijn veel eerstejaars studenten en LST masterstudenten vinden of vóór hun diploma-uitreiking of er vlak na een goede baan.

Tuberculosis (TB) is associated with 1.5 million deaths annually. There is a need exists to optimize both current as well as novel antibiotic combination treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness and safety of treatments against TB.

Waarom is er geen Noordoost Aziatische veiligheidsstructuur? In dit artikel, gepubliceerd in The Pacific Review, bespreken auteurs Wang (Peking University) en Stevens (Leiden University) de vier obstakels voor coöperatie in Oost Azië.

Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 verdedigt Linlin Sun haar proefschrift ‘International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining’. De promotoren zijn prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof. dr. E.C.P.D.C. De Brabandere.

Het American Journal of Comparative Law (Fall 2016, pp. 790-94) heeft een zeer positieve recensie gepubliceerd van het boek van Sofia Ranchordas getiteld ‘Constitutional Sunsets and Experimental Legislation’ (Edward Elgar). Het boek is gebaseerd op haar proefschrift waarop zij in 2014 cum laude is…

De recente uitspraak van het Gerechtshof Amsterdam dat Schiphol van 500.000 naar 460.000 vliegbewegingen moet, staat door de val van het kabinet op losse schroeven. Hoe en wanneer de krimp gestalte moet krijgen is nu volstrekt onduidelijk.

Where does the urge to collect come from? What are the explicit or underlying reasons for gathering large amount of objects?

In the past decade many population studies have been performed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to understand the bulk properties of protoplanetary disks around young stars. These population studies mostly consisted of low mass stars, with relatively few of the disks around…

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.

Miles Kellerman, universitair docent aan de Universiteit Leiden, stelt dat overheden financiële criminaliteit beter kunnen opsporen door Licensed Detection Agents in te zetten, een soort bounty hunters die structurele tekortkomingen in bestaande detectiesystemen moeten oplossen.