Contacts between English and Dutch speakers had a profound impact on the literary landscape and book culture of England and the Low Countries. This conference crosses conventional chronological, linguistic, geographical and disciplinary boundaries to explore the cultural history of relations between…

De Mozambikaanse oud-politica en kinderrechtenactiviste Graça Machel ontvangt een eredoctoraat van de Universiteit Leiden vanwege haar inspanningen voor de rechten van kinderen en vrouwen in Afrika en daarbuiten. Machel krijgt het eredoctoraat uitgereikt tijdens de dies natalis op 8 februari.

Zijn Leidse eredoctoraat, de toekomst van bètawetenschappers en diversiteit in de wetenschap. Hierover vertelt Robbert Dijkgraaf in een van de klassieke kamers in het Academiegebouw. ‘Heel erg bijzonder, mijn eredoctoraat. Een zeldzaam eerbewijs.’

In 2022 is Leiden een jaar lang de wetenschappelijke hoofdstad van Europa. Op 28 oktober werd het overkoepelende thema van de festiviteiten onthuld: Who Knows. Want wie heeft tegenwoordig de wijsheid in pacht? Wie bepaalt wat waar is? En wie weet hoe de toekomst eruitziet?

This dissertation is part of a broader research project that revolves around unraveling the evolution of balanced lethal systems.

CMLCA is a software tool that supports the technical steps of the Life Cycle Assessment. The focus of the program is on advanced computational aspects of life cycle inventory calculations.

Het essay Voor de vooruitgang verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de 450e Dies Natalis van de Universiteit Leiden. In 2025 vieren we ons 450-jarig bestaan. Thema van dit lustrum is De tijd vooruit.

Een échte professor in de klas!

In 2019 bestond de Universiteit Leiden 444 jaar. Deze bijzondere leeftijd vroeg om een bijzondere viering, samen met de inwoners van Leiden en Den Haag. In, met en voor de stad.

Abstract submission is now open for the international conference of the ELS Academy, in Amsterdam on September 1 and 2.

Na vele jaren was het dan eindelijk zover. Het Leidse pleitteam (bestaande uit Anne van der Meeren, Heleen Kleinjans, Dries van de Voort, Sophie Vonk en Remco de Lijster en begeleiders Femke Binnendijk en Rogier Kegge) heeft de jaarlijkse pleitwedstrijd van de Vereniging voor Bestuursrecht (VAR) gew…

Alumni-activiteit

Het onderwijsteam achter The Learning Mindset (TLM) van het Leiden University College heeft 800.000 euro gewonnen tijdens de uitreiking van de Nederlandse Hogeronderwijspremie 2022. Het team eindigde als tweede achter het team van Universiteit Twente. De prijs wordt jaarlijks uitgereikt tijdens het…

De decanen (voorzitters van de faculteitsbesturen) vormen onder voorzitterschap van de rector magnificus de Raad van Decanen (RvD).

‘Een uitdagende rollercoaster, maar ook een verbindende en leerzame ervaring,’ zo vat het team van iGEM Leiden 2022 hun deelname aan de iGEM-wedstrijd samen. De wedstrijd voor synthetische biologie kwam tot een hoogtepunt tijdens de ‘Grand Jamboree’ in Parijs. Het team eindigde in de top 10 van 360…

De zomerschool wordt georganiseerd door de Common Law Society van de Charles Universiteit in Praag en vindt plaats gedurende twee weken in juli in het berghuis 'Patejdlova bouda' van de universiteit. In 2022 is het onderwerp de Europese Unie en haar plaats in de wereld.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Promotor: Koen Kuijken Co-promotor: Henk Hoekstra

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

Fungal infections pose a significant threat to individuals with compromised immune systems and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, they continue to jeopardize patient’s health.

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

This thesis considers multi-prover commitment schemes whose security is based on restrictions on the communication between the provers.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. G.H. Baltes (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

Bicarbonate buffer is largely found in nature due to its ability to regulate pH variations around neutral values. As the pH changes, so does the speciation of the buffer.

A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile

Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.

All crested and marbled newts (the genus Triturus) suffer from an unusual genetic abnormality, called a balanced lethal system, that kills exactly half of their offspring. How can a trait so disadvantageous have survived millions of years of natural selection?

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

Systems are called real-time systems, if the correctness of the system does not only depend on the correctness of the system output but also on whether the output is delivered on time.

Astronomical observations of cold regions in the universe show a rich inventory of ices. Part of these ices may end up on planets like our own, but in that journey they will be exposed to considerable amounts of radiation.

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

This thesis presents insights from our study of various correlated electron systems with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In ordinary metals, electron-electron interactions exist, but get substantially screened due to the sheer number of electrons.

The demand for neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets is rapidly growing, while the neodymium supply chain is under pressure. Recycling can alleviate these issues. This thesis investigates the potential for deploying novel magnet recycling technologies and their environmental consequences.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotor: O.W. van Gaans

Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

This dissertation presents the results of the importance of creativity for ICT-students of Dutch universities of applied sciences (in Dutch: hogescholen), and the functioning of training courses that aim to promote creative abilities is highlighted.

Monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) is the principal enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). MAGL inhibition provides several potential therapeutic opportunities, including anti-nociceptive, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity.

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

This thesis deals with properties of Jacobians of genus two curves that cover elliptic curves.

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

Combinatorial games are games for two competing players, moving in a turn-by-turn fashion, in which there is no chance nor hidden information⁠. Chess, checkers and the simpler tic tac toe are well-known examples of this class of games, as well as game of go⁠.

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.