Deze eenjarige Nederlandstalige masterspecialisatie onderzoekt Nederland en zijn mondiale en koloniale context, vanaf de middeleeuwen tot nu.

Dit was het programma van De Kennisboomgaard 2025:

De onderzoeksgroep Cyber Security Governance bestudeert de impact van moderne technologie op governance, soevereiniteit, wetshandhaving en internationale betrekkingen, en levert toonaangevend academisch onderzoek en beleidsinzichten.

Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.

In het academisch jaar 2023-2024 biedt het interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma Sociale Veerkracht en Veiligheid vier vakken aan voor studenten die beginnen met het derde jaar van hun bachelor. Deze vakken zijn te volgen binnen de ruimte voor keuzevakken. Je kunt de vakken afzonderlijk als keuzevak…

Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.

In order to be able to develop effective medicine and treatments to prevent or cure autoimmune diseases or cancer we need to understand the mechanisms how they arise and what drives their course.Unravelling the fundamental molecular mechanisms influencing the onset and course of diseases such as allergies,…

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé

In analogy to mathematical proofs, the goal of a proof system is for a prover to convince a verifier of the correctness of a claim.

The endophytic microbiota is a community of various microorganisms that reside in plant tissue. These microbes are known to promote plant health and resilience, and their members do not simply exist side by side.

Promotie

Wim Voermans, hoogleraar staats- en bestuursrecht, geeft in een interview in de Volkskrant aan dat Alexander Pechtold als ervaren politicus beter had moeten weten. Hij kreeg een appartement ter waarde van 135.000 euro van een bevriende Canadese oud-ambassadeur. Dit appartement had hij volgens Voermans…

Groeiende gezondheidsverschillen, toenemende zorgkosten, de vergrijzing en het tekort aan zorgpersoneel zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden van uitdagingen waar de gezondheidszorg voor staat, zowel in Nederland als daarbuiten. Deze vraagstukken overstijgen de grenzen van de medische sector en raken aan…

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller

We describe certain birational modifications of nodal relative curves over a regular base of arbitrary dimension.

Make more fluid: In condensed matter systems, electrons can acquire unusual properties from their interaction with the atomic lattice.

Veel geesteswetenschappers houden er een eigen blog op na. Deze zomer besteden we daar aandacht aan. Vandaag aan het woord: Looi van Kessel, PhD-student bij het LUCAS en een van degenen achter het Leiden Arts in Society Blog.

Eline Bergijk is de nieuwe onderwijsdirecteur van de Honours Academy. In september nam ze het stokje over van Chris de Kruif, die Opleidingsdirecteur Rechtsgeleerdheid werd. In haar nieuwe functie wil Bergijk blijven experimenteren met onderwijs, maar het contact met de rest van de universiteit daarbij…

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

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

Heart failure is a major health care problem with high mortality.

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

One of the most important puzzles in modern astrophysics is the nature of dark matter.

The different kinds of cultural perspectives on health and disease of the participants are related to their knowledge, beliefs, values and practices manifested in various forms of lifestyle in Indonesia. The cultural diversity of the population is also related to differences in health behaviour.

Diverse types of exoplanets such as gas giants on close-in orbits (hot Jupiters) and young massive giants on wide orbits (super Jupiters), with no analogs in the Solar System, pose challenges but also opportunities to our understanding of planet formation and evolution.

Discovery and development of Central Nervous System (CNS) drugs is hampered by high attrition rates.

In the search for sustainable energy solutions, the idea of artificial photosynthesis has been proposed as an approach with which to use water and sunlight to produce hydrogen.

Als alumnus van de Universiteit Leiden kunt u uw hele leven lang gebruik blijven maken van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL).

In een tijdperk vóór GoogleDocs en LinkedIn vertrouwden 19e-eeuwse wetenschappers op het schrijven van brieven voor samenwerking, peer-feedback en het opbouwen en onderhouden van academische netwerken.

Op 18 september 2019 verdedigde Huw Llewellyn zijn proefschrift 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.M. Blokker en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

The ultimate aim of this project is to improve cooperation between courts in different Member States.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

IoT technology poses serval opportunities to supply chains. This thesis employs grey correlation and forecasting models, system dynamics, agent-based modeling, and ex-ante LCA to investigate and quantify the opportunities and risks of IoT-enabled sustainable supply chain operations from both industrial…

The first direct detection of gravitational waves opened the possibility of mapping the Universe via this new and independent messenger.

Galaxies form and evolve through close interaction with their surroundings. As a result, the heavy elements ('metals') that are synthesized in stars, are found both inside and outside galaxies.

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-Promotor: R. T. Dame

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

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…

Errors are everywhere, and mechanical failures are especially common: buckled grain silos and cracked support columns are, justly, seen as an issue to be avoided.

The European Council and the European Commission have a similar role in agenda setting. Both place issues on the EU agenda. However, these institutions have distinct designs. They have different political attributes (the European Council has considerably more political authority) and information-processing…

The main goal of this thesis is to achieve advanced control of binding properties in bis-pyrrolic and macrocyclic pyrrolic receptors by light.

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

Quantum computers are a proposed fundamentally new type of computer. They aim to perform some computations much faster than previously possible by exploiting phenomena at the quantum scale, called superposition and entanglement.

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 multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

Former PhD student of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) Bart Thomee has received this year’s Rising Star Award from the Multimedia group of ACM, the worldwide computer science association. Today, Thomee is a successful researcher at Yahoo Labs.