Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Understanding how nature captures and transfers solar energy is essential both for elucidating biological photosynthesis and for guiding the design of artificial light-harvesting systems.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller

This thesis examines silicon pore optics (SPO), a technology that exploits silicon wafers from the semiconductor industry to create extremely high quality X-ray optics, by studying its manufacturing process, applications, and prospects.

De Universiteit Leiden staat midden in de maatschappij en wil bijdragen aan een duurzame samenleving. Verduurzaming van gebouwen levert een bijdrage aan Nederlandse en Europese milieunormen. De Universiteit Leiden houdt daar in al haar bouwprojecten rekening mee.

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Een nieuwe manier om het licht van verre planeten te analyseren zou ons bewijs kunnen leveren van buitenaardse planten, schrijft astronomie-auteur Colin Stuart in de New Scientist. In zijn artikel beschrijft hij het werk van de groep van de Leidse astronoom Rob van Holstein. Dit team detecteerde afgelopen…

The largest structures in the Universe are clusters of galaxies. Each can contain hundreds to thousands of galaxies.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris

The parabolic Anderson model (PAM), which is the Cauchy problem for the heat equation with random potential. The PAM is a mathematical model that describes how mass (i.e. matter or energy) flows in a medium in the presence of a field of sources and sinks.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

The Sun and all the stars in the night sky reside in the Milky Way galaxy. In the at-rest reference frame of the Galaxy, typical stars travel with velocities of about 100-200 kilometres per second.

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

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Is het mogelijk om oxytocine reacties bij gezonde personen farmacologisch te conditioneren en de neurale circuits te identificeren die aan deze conditionering ten grondslag liggen?

Met een speciaal symposium in museum Boerhaave vierde ESO op maandag 26 september haar 60-jarig bestaan. Meer dan 100 wetenschappers, politici en mensen uit de industrie waren aanwezig om terug te kijken op samenwerkingen, mijlpalen en ontdekkingen. De Leidse astrochemicus Ewine van Dishoeck was één…

Sterrenkundige Ignas Snellen onderzoekt atmosferen van exoplaneten met als uiteindelijk doel aanwijzingen voor leven te vinden. Dat lukt steeds beter dankzij alsmaar slimmere meetmethoden van zijn onderzoeksgroep. ‘Binnen tien jaar wordt het echt spannend.’ Oratie 8 november.

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Wat doet de Universiteit Leiden om haar gebouwen en campussen toekomstbestendig en onafhankelijk van fossiele energie te maken?

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

This work describes the use of click-to-release chemistry to get spatiotemporal control over immunocytokine activity. Until now, immunocytokines (cytokines coupled to a tumor-targeting-moiety) remained active throughout the body, being able to bind their respective receptors, causing mild to severe…

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Promotores: Wim Jiskoot; Ferry Ossendorp

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

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

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

Promotor: Jelle S. Kaastra Co-promotor: Jelle de Plaa

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotor: Dr. Young Hae Choi

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…

The function of TLRs in innate immunity has aroused worldwide attention soon after its discovery. Because of the broad functions of TLR2 in innate immunity, the drive for the development of TLR2-targeted vaccines or therapeutic treatments has accelerated in the last decades.

Promotor: J. Zaanen

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke

Gibbs measures, as used in Statistical Mechanics, have a definition that is remarkably similar to the definition ofg-measures, used in dynamical systems.