Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, J. Neefjes, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

Een apotheker adviseert patiënten en medezorgverleners over optimale farmaceutische patiëntenzorg. Bij de master Farmacie in Leiden leer je dit zowel in de praktijk tijdens de coschappen als binnen het cursorisch onderwijs op de universiteit.

Water is all around us and is vital for all aspects of life. Studying the various compounds and life forms that inhabit natural waters lets us better understand the world around us.

Nieuwscheckers, een team van journalistieke factcheckers van de Universiteit Leiden, ontving tijdens de opening van het academisch jaar op 5 september de Mr. K.J. Cathprijs. Deze prijs wordt elke twee jaar uitgereikt aan medewerkers of studenten die een positieve bijdrage leveren aan de naam van de…

Van levensredders tot moderne Frankensteins. De klassieke vraag hoe ver wetenschappers mogen gaan komt telkens terug op 'toekomstcongres' Brave New World op 2 en 3 november. Wetenschappers en kunstenaars presenteren hun gedroomde technologieën en debatteren waar de grens moet liggen.

Promotor: R. Cramer

Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.

BrainTrain verbindt wetenschappers met jongeren. Dit realiseren we door een platform aan te bieden waar wetenschappers leren van de ervaringen van jongeren, en waar jongeren alles over hun eigen (brein)ontwikkeling kunnen ontdekken. We organiseren jongerenpanels en creëren korte podcasts waarin zowel…

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

The growing demand of energy indicates that global energy resources in the form of fossil fuels will not be sufficient in the future. In order to solve potential future energy problems development of a sustainable hydrogen economy is highly desirable.

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

De afdeling eLaw van de Universiteit Leiden is toonaangevend in Europa in onderzoek naar het snijvlak tussen recht en digitale technologieën.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

This thesis has described novel synthetic methods to produce a variety of (glyco)peptides and their application in the study of various immunological processes.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams

Promotor: C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, Co-promotor: Sandra de Weert

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: Y.H. Choi

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Femke Binnendijk en Olaf van Loon zijn aangesteld als nieuwe docenten bij de afdeling Staats- en bestuursrecht van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid van de Universiteit Leiden.

Moritz Jesse has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In his MIND-EU Project he will focus on a coherent way to teach Migration, Integration, and Non-Discrimination at Leiden Law School at bachelor and master level.

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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.

Phosphorylation affects all four major biomolecules – proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids – and plays a pivotal role in the most fundamental cellular functions.

The investigations described in this thesis lay out strategies aimed at advancing antibiotic research and development. The examples presented revolve around two main approaches: understanding drug-target interactions and target identification.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

Systems are called real-time systems, if the correctness of the system does not only depend on the correctness of the system output but also on whether the output is delivered on time.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

Understanding how galaxies form, interact, and evolve comes largely from comparing theory predictions with observational data. Numerical simulations of galaxies provide the most accurate approach to testing the theory, as they follow the non-linear evolution of gas and dark matter in great detail and…

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.

One of the key quests in astronomy is to study the growth and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Radio observations provide a powerful means of studying the formation of stars and subsequent buildup of distant galaxies, in a way that is unbiased by the presence of dust.

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

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, E. Fouvry (Univeriste Paris Saclay)

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier

In this thesis, I targeted the orchid genus Lepanthes, one of the six genera of angiosperms that surpasses 1,000 species in the Neotropics, as a study model to investigate the evolutionary processes that promoted species diversifications.

Streptomyces are prolific producers of enzymes and secondary metabolites, including more than 50% of all clinical antibiotics. This makes them highly attractive for medical, biotechnological, and industrial purposes.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.C. van Welzen