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…

8 november jl. heeft Marike Knoef een award gewonnen op de 34ste Award Ceremony van de World Cultural Council (WCC).

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

Pectin is a plant cell wall polysaccharide made of mainly D-galacturonic acid (GA) subunits. The potency of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger to naturally secrete high amounts of pectinases to degrade pectin has been utilized for the industrial production of pectinases.

Dit masterprogramma combineert gevorderde niveaus van filosofische analyse met het bestuderen van niet-westerse bronnen, met name Chinese, Indiase en Arabische bronnen.

Biopolymer sequencing with graphene edge-based tunnel junctions has the potential to overcome current limitations with the third generation of sequencing based on biological nanopores.

Arithmetic geometry concerns the number-theoretic properties of geometric objects defined by polynomials. Mathematicians are interested in the rational solutions to these geometric objects.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

Why do sexual violence policies still fail to systematically address men and masculinities, when the need for cultural change among men has been central in public debates since #MeToo?

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

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.

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Promotor: G. van Dijk

This dissertation aims to advance understanding of amoeboid single cell migration under the influence of changing physicochemical environmental properties. The particular focus is on the relatively unknown influence of differing physical properties in the extracellular environment, such as the migratory…

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

In this thesis, we have studied cell images from two types of cells, including pollen grains and the immune cells, neutrophils. These images are captured using a bright field microscope and a confocal microscope.

Op 7 september verdedigde Francesc Claret Traid het proefschrift 'On the nature of the right to resist: a rights-based theory of the ius resistendi in liberal democracies'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door Afshin Ellian en Gelijn Molier.

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Op 31 januari 2018 verdedigde Vestert Borger zijn proefschrift getiteld ‘The Transformation of the Euro: Law, Contract, Solidarity’. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door professor Stefaan Van den Bogaert (promotor) en dr. Jorrit Rijpma (co-promotor).

Op 12 februari promoveert Cid Swanenvleugel. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Cid!

Langetermijnontwikkelingen, zoals het verouderen van de bevolking, de toename in de gemiddelde levensverwachting en de gevolgen van de recente financiële crisis, hebben bijgedragen aan de discussie rondom de houdbaarheid van het pensioenstelsel.

The researchers examine the Council of the European Union's voting behaviour between 2010 and 2021 and the impact of different independent variables.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Achucarro

De Universiteit Leiden is op 8 november het toneel van de jaarlijkse prijsuitreiking van de World Cultural Council (WCC). We beantwoorden de vijf belangrijkste vragen over deze prestigieuze prijzen.

This thesis describes the use of an activity-based proteomics method to study the endocannabinoid system.

Met een aantal lezingen van topwetenschappers en een feestelijk uitgedoste Pieterskerk stond de Universiteit Leiden op 7 en 8 november even in het teken van de jaarlijkse prijsuitreiking van de World Cultural Council (WCC).

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman

Advanced sensing techniques require graphene with high quality and well-controlled surface chemistry.

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.

Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

Promotor: Carel J. ten Cate, Co-Promotor: Hans W. Slabbekoorn

Al jaren hét standaardwerk over politiek en openbaar bestuur in Nederland. Volledig, diepgaand en up-to-date.

Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria that have a complex multicellular life cycle and are well known for their ability to produce a wide range of bioactive natural products (NPs).

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

In this course, we will focus on the fascinating history of the Arabic Medieval World. We will take you on a journey through the Middle Ages. All along, we will present you with historiographical debates and dilemmas and travel back and forth in time explaining to you how events of the past affected…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Co-Promotor: N.S. Pannu

Sinds de 16e eeuw hebben religieuze overwegingen de studie van het Oudengels en zijn sprekers gemotiveerd. In de 19e eeuw wendden geleerden zich vooral tot de studie van de Oudengelse literatuur om sporen te vinden van voorchristelijke, 'Germaanse' religie, zoals besproken in Eric G. Stanley's baanbrekende…

To maximise your personal development, we ensure tutorials are small-scale and staff members extremely accessible. In year one, you’ll have an average of 12 contact hours, half of which comprise lectures (in English) and the remainder tutorials (optionally Dutch or English).

Waarom zijn transnationale en interculturele agenten zoals Henrich Carloff en Willem Leyel belangrijk voor de studie van de vroegmoderne expansie?

This interdisciplinary study focuses on (trans)national ethnic and popular networks, combining historical-ethnographic and computational methods to understand the ‘workings’ of networked conflict interfering in the increasingly violent conflict in the Sahel (Africa) and beyond. The project focuses on…

Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold

Humanity stands at a pivotal juncture, facing the dual challenge of environmental sustainability and rapid population growth, projected to exceed 11 billion by century’s end.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Prof.dr. J.C.T. Eijkel (Twente University)

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

Over the last three decades, the discovery of exoplanets has revealed the boundless variety of worlds beyond our own Solar System⁠. Majority of planetary systems contain short-period planets that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune⁠.

Drug-target binding kinetics determine the time course of the central event in pharmacotherapy: Drug-target interaction.

The largest genus within the Phyllanthaceae family is a group called Phyllanthus L. Recent studies have shown, that Phyllanthus is paraphyletic with the genera Glochidion, Breynia and Synostemon nested within it.