Despite the fact that gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most studied nanoparticles, there is still a necessity for new approaches allowing for effective protective coating to enable wider use of GNPs in biomedical applications.

This thesis examines the link between simple molecules and the underlying structure and chemistry within protoplanetary disks - the birthplaces of planets.

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…

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

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.

Promotie

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!

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Het thema 'Health and well-being in a healthy society' is één van de speerpunten van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen (FSW). We zetten ons in voor het bevorderen van gezondheid en welzijn voor mensen van alle leeftijden.

Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Universite Bordeaux I)

Security is key to survival for any living organism: life is full of perils and threats, both physically, environmentally, and societally. Security challenges such as terrorism, natural disasters, and cybercrime rank among the most pressing issues of our time, affecting the security and safety of millions…

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

In samenwerking met

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.

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

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Quantummechanica voor iedereen

This is the final call for candidates (research master students, PhD students, and postdocs) to participate in the 2021 Autumn School, entitled "Scales of Knowledge. From Cosmos to Book", which will take place online from 18 until 22 October 2021.

Het Leidse team 'Geen Syntax', bestaande uit Bas Nieuwenhuizen, Mathijs van de Nes en Raymond van Bommel, heeft in Utrecht de Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) 2013 gewonnen. Deze Leidse studenten wiskunde en informatica losten de 10 opgaven een uur sneller op dan alle andere teams.

Lezing, Boekpresentatie

Promotie

Promotie

The Kent University Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies organizes its annual MEMS-Festival. The festival is held in Canterbury on June 14 and 15. It offers both postgraduate and final year undergraduate students the chance to present their research in a professional academic environment to…

Universiteit Leiden won de Europese ronde in de Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competitie van het IISL in Rome.

What kinds of pan-European connections linked communities across early medieval Europe, and what social infrastructures allowed these networks to function beyond political, cultural and geographic boundaries?

Team Johans Angels van drie studenten van de Universiteit Leiden heeft zondag 21 november in Bremen de derde prijs behaald op het Noord West Europees kampioenschap programmeren. Door in vijf uur zeven algoritmische problemen op te lossen, wisten de jongens uit Leiden 64 teams achter zich te laten.

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…