High-angular-resolution observations of the circumstellar material have uncovered numerous and very diverse substructures in protoplanetary discs, raising the question of whether they are caused by forming planets or other mechanisms.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo

Alumna Sarah Gagestein noemt zichzelf een ‘taalstrateeg’ en is gespecialiseerd in framing. Welke invloed heeft framing op ons denkbeeld? En wat is de rol van framing in de politiek of tijdens de verkiezingen?

Per 1 januari 2019 zal het Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologie Studies (CWTS) worden geleid door prof. dr. Sarah de Rijcke. Zij is door het Faculteitsbestuur van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen voor 4 jaar benoemd tot Wetenschappelijk Directeur.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

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…

The project seeks to develop an eco-design framework for single-use medical devices and packaging

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.

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

Sarah Michiel is instituutsmanager van het NIMAR en woont al sinds 2012 in Marokko. Bijna alle medewerkers van het NIMAR in Rabat werken door coronamaatregelen niet meer op locatie en alle bezoeken en conferenties moesten worden afgezegd. Sarah werkt sinds 20 maart vanuit België, waar ze ooit opgroeide.…

The effects of anthropogenic noise on interactions between predators and their prey are still little understood.

The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.

De DASPO-groep voor data-analyse en overleving in kanker aan het Mathematisch Instituut heeft een app ontwikkeld die persoonlijke prognoses verschaft voor patiënten met zachtweefselsarcoom. Door de agressieve aard van dergelijke tumoren is de prognose voor deze patiënten slecht, zelfs na een operatie…

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).

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

Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.

Op 1 april 2020 verdedigde Marc Broekema zijn proefschrift 'Cognitive Bias in the Judgment of Business Valuations and Valuators'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. J.I. van der Rest.

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

This thesis describes the genetic and prokaryotic diversity of giant barrel sponges.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

Transplantation of labial salivary glands to the eyelids for patients with dry eye appears to give excellent results clinically.

The genetic information of all living organisms is contained in their DNA. Cells modify the degree of DNA compaction by epigenetics, which largely determines what genes are read out and which genes are transcriptionally silent.

Regeneration is the ability of an organism to restore damaged or lost tissue with a functional replacement, and without scarring. Many lizards can regenerate their tails.

Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

Sinds 8 januari is Sarah Wolff hoogleraar International Studies en Global Politics. Tijd voor een korte kennismaking over haar vakgebied en academische interesses.

Humans and songbirds learn their vocalizations early in life by exposure to the vocalizations of adult conspecifics. Often, better learning outcomes are achieved with live, social, tutors than with audio-only exposure to vocalizations.

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…

In dit artikel onderzoeken Bart Schuurman & Sarah Louise Carthy de verschillen tussen geradicaliseerde individuen en de algemene bevolking.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Smets, M. Stech

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra

Obesity may alter how a person absorbs, distributes, metabolizes or excretes medication. This thesis describes how obesity affects drug levels in the blood for antimicrobial agents, such as ciprofloxacin and fluconazole.

The overarching goal of this thesis is to set the foundations, but also make the first essential steps towards establishing a comprehensive, mesoscopic, hydrodynamic theory of epithelial tissues. The stage is set by an exhaustive study of topological defects in passive p-atic liquid crystals, singularities…

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important bulk chemical that is used in various industrial processes. More than 95% of the H2O2 used in industry is made via the anthraquinone process during which a large amount of energy is going to waste.

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

The class-imbalance problem is a challenging classification task and is frequently encountered in real-world applications. Various techniques have been developed to improve the imbalanced classification performance theoretically and practically.

Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

Prof.dr. Sarah de Rijcke wordt de nieuwe rector magnificus in het College van Bestuur van de Universiteit Leiden. De Rijcke volgt per 15 januari 2026 prof.dr.ir. Hester Bijl op, die rector magnificus wordt aan de TU Delft.

Timo Slootweg, associate professor at he department Philosophy of Law, published a chapter about Paul Scholten in

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

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

This doctoral thesis is an effort to understand how lipid phase-separation induced by diacylglycerol analogues in lipid-based nanoparticles affects their in vivo behavior, leading to specific nanoparticle-protein communications and selective cell targeting.

In de Clingendael Spectator reflecteert hoogleraar Sarah Wolff op de NAVO-top. Die is volgens haar goed verlopen, maar legt ook nieuwe uitdagingen bloot.