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De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) kiest haar leden uit een select gezelschap van vooraanstaande onderzoekers. Op 17 september installeert de KNAW 21 nieuwe leden, onder wie Leids natuurkundige Michel Orrit en chemicus Hermen Overkleeft.

Het Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo moest in maart 2020 in allerijl 57 studenten repatriëren naar Nederland en Vlaanderen. Directeur en arabist Rudolf de Jong besloot in Egypte te blijven. ‘Veel werk gaat gewoon door.’

Oud-directeur Keuning stapte in 2022 op na klachten over autoritair leiderschap. Daar komt bij dat hij na zijn vertrek bijna twee ton van het noodlijdende museum ontving, blijkt uit een onafhankelijk onderzoek. Barend Barentsen, hoogleraar Sociaal Recht, spreekt met Oost over de zaak.

Bram Koster, hoogleraar Elektron Microscopy, is benoemd tot directeur van NeCEN, de geavanceerde cryo- elektronenmicroscopie faciliteit van de faculteit. Koster wil meer samenwerking op het gebied van onderzoek, nieuwe imaging technieken ontwikkelen en een nieuwe postdoctorale training opzetten voor…

SHINE-VR is een korte interventie in Virtual Reality (VR) die wordt toegevoegd aan een reguliere traumabehandeling (TF-CBT). We onderzoeken de effectiviteit ervan met een experimenteel ontwerp waarbij naar individuele gevallen wordt gekeken. Dit doen we specifiek met jongvolwassenen die seksueel misbruik…

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

In this dissertation, we work towards an experiment in which we aim to bring a micrometer sized magnet at the tip of a soft cantilever into a superposition.

The research described in this Thesis was aimed at designing and synthesizing nature-inspired compounds as part of TB vaccine discovery.

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, which holds the potential to simulate complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical numerical methods.Despite recent formidable advancements in quantum hardware, constructing a quantum computer capable of performing useful calculations remains challenging.In…

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

The aim of this thesis is to explore the use of Bioorthogonal Antigens to study the cross-presentation pathway.

Because thin systems can deform along the thickness with relative ease, the interplay between surface mechanics and geometry plays a fundamental role in sculpting their three-dimensional shape.

In the past decade many population studies have been performed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to understand the bulk properties of protoplanetary disks around young stars. These population studies mostly consisted of low mass stars, with relatively few of the disks around…

This thesis describes the importance of being able to control the selectivity of potential drug candidates.

Promotor: M.A.G.J. Orrit

Museum is een van de belangrijkste volkenkundige musea ter wereld

Democratie vormt een lege huls als burgers geen dak boven het hoofd hebben, geen toegang tot zorg en geen bestaanszekerheid. ‘Vrijheid en gelijkheid hebben weinig betekenis als je geen zekerheid hebt’, betoogt universitair docent staatsrecht, Luisa Pinto E Neto, in een opiniestuk in Dagblad Trouw.

Op 8 en 9 juli 2022 was de Leidse rechtenfaculteit gastvrouw van het tweede congres van de onderzoeksgroep Conflictoplossende Instituties (COI), in samenwerking met Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen en de Universiteit Utrecht.

Promotie

Welke hersencel doet wát als bijvoorbeeld de ziekte van Parkinson ontstaat? Het duurt niet lang meer voordat die puzzel stukje voor stukje gelegd kan worden. Computationeel bioloog Ahmed Mahfouz combineert Leidse bio-kennis met Delftse algoritmen en komt steeds dichterbij de sleutel.

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

At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.

Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

For optimization problems, it is often unclear how to choose the most appropriate optimization algorithm. As such, rigorous benchmarking practices are critical to ensure we can gain as much insight into the strengths and weaknesses of these types of algorithms.

Scattering of light in the presence of nano-structured materials, i.e. with features in the order of the wavelength of the light or smaller, reveals details of how light interacts with matter at the nanoscale.

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

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

Cathodic corrosion is a relatively unknown phenomenon that can severely etch metallic electrodes at cathodic (negative) potentials.

The research described in this thesis focused on identifying novel drug targets and synergistic combinations for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a virulent subtype of breast cancer with a dismal prognosis and limited therapeutic options.

The next generation of high-contrast imaging instruments on space-based observatories requires sophisticated wavefront sensing and control in addition to a high-performance coronagraph.

Streptomyces are multicellular, Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum of actinobacteria which produce a high amount of bioactive natural products of which the expression is tightly coordinated with the life cycle.

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.

This thesis describes the role of pollution, specifically neonicotinoid insecticides, as an actor of the ongoing biodiversity decline.

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are mechanical waves that travel along the surface of a material and find many applications in modern technologies due to the ease of excitation on piezoelectric substrates via interdigital transducers (IDTs).

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotors: A.I. Yanson, L.B.F. Juurlink

It is a common technique in global optimization with expensive black-box functions to learn a surrogate-model of the response function from past evaluations and use it to decide on the location of future evaluations.

Promotor: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promotor: Todor P. Stefanov

Interactive exploration of large volumes of data is increasingly common, as data scientists attempt to extract interesting information from large opaque data sets. This scenario presents a difficult challenge for traditional database systems, as (1) nothing is known about the query workload in advance,…

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

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

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

Promotors: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. B. Sendhoff (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.

This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

This thesis focuses on developing wafer-scale two-dimensional (2D) materials by combining synthesis, transfer, characterization, and device integration of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and BN-doped amorphous carbon.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets. Co-promotores: B. Gravendeel, F. Pupulin

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

Atherosclerosis is the most prominent underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease and an important cause of major adverse cardiovascular events.