LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

Autophagy is a fundamental degradative process, maintaining cellular homeostasis and functions in host defense against intracellular pathogens, including mycobacteria and Salmonella.

Artful Mathematics: The Heritage of M. C. Escher

Promotores: J.N. Kok, H.J. Hoogeboom

Promotor: Jaap Brouwer, Co-promotor: Remus Th. Dame

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Sound is everywhere in the marine environment and hearing is therefore a very important for stimuli for fish. They use sound for orientation and communication, during migration, aggregation and spawning, but also for detection of prey and predators.

Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is an ubiquitous part of oil refining that ensures that fuels are cleaned of impurities and environment release of pollutants such as SOx and NOx gasses are minimized.

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

This dissertation focuses on developing new mathematical and statistical methods to properly represent time-varying covariates and model them within the context of time-to-event analysis.

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Co-Promotor: N.S. Pannu

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.

The LOFAR radio telescope produces petabytes of data every year. Radio Astronomers use complex multi-step pipelines to process this data and produce scientific images.

Werkt u met (ouders van) peuters of kleuters met verlegen of angstig gedrag? Dan zijn wij op zoek naar u. Bezoek de website voor meer informatie.

Heeft jouw peuter of kleuter last van verlegen of angstig gedrag? Dan kan één van onze projecten binnen het Dappere Kleintjes onderzoeksproject jou misschien helpen. Bezoek de website voor meer informatie.

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

In dit project gebruiken we sociale netwerkanalyse om het gedrag van gebruikers op online fora en bijbehorende marktplaatsen in de tijd te analyseren.

Promotie

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

Promoter: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promoter: Todor P. Stefanov

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.

Our recent excavations have focused on the more recent New Kingdom/Late Period (ca. 1500-332 BCE) material.

As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

Promotor: T.J. Aartsma, Co-promotor: R.N. Frese

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

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

Tuberculosis is a major global health problem caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, claiming more than a million lives annually.

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

De masteropleiding International Organisation wordt aangeboden door de Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag. Op deze pagina wordt uitgelegd waarom studenten voor deze opleiding en locatie kiezen.

Every day, the intestines face an enormous challenge. They must absorb nutrients, medicines, and other substances we consume, while keeping harmful compounds out.

S.S. Kolipaka’s thesis questions and investigates the survival prospects of reintroduced tigers and their offspring’s in the human dominated landscape of Panna tiger reserve in India.

GTGC, gevestigd op de Campus Den Haag van de Universiteit Leiden, bevindt zich in het hart van een van 's werelds belangrijkste centra voor mondiaal bestuur. Het programma onderhoudt actief contact met vele belangrijke beleidsmakers. Hieronder vindt u meer informatie over onze banden met Global The…

We zijn verheugd het Just Peace Festival aan te kondigen, een bruisend platform voor dialoog, samenwerking en actie rond de urgente wereldwijde uitdagingen van vrede en rechtvaardigheid! Het festival vormt de culminatie van het Road to Summit-programma van Den Haag en is een gezamenlijk initiatief van…

Het Centre for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) is een interdisciplinair academisch expertisecentrum met als doel het verrichten en verspreiden van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar waardengeladen vraagstukken in de publieke sector. In het bijzonder wordt gekeken naar de ethiek van de publieke ambtsvervulling…

Op 6 januari promoveert Kefan Bao. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Kefan!

We are very excited to announce our Sustainability Series for 2023-2024. Each month an interactive workshop will be organised that discusses a specific theme of sustainability. Interested about sustainability? Do not hesitate to sign up to our events !

In this dissertation non-parametric Bayesian methods are used in the application of robotic vision.

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 special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

De effectiviteit van een vroeg interventieprogramma voor angstige peuters in Nederland

Bekijk de aanmelddeadlines voor de MSc Political Theory: Legitimacy and Justice aan Universiteit Leiden — met aparte datums voor visa/verblijfsvergunning en voor studenten zonder visumplicht voor september en februari.

Ben jij geïnteresseerd in een scriptie of stage in onze onderzoeksgroep? Bekijk hier de mogelijkheden.

In this thesis, we investigate how deep generative models (AI models that can create new designs) can be better utilized for technical and industrial design. Our goal is to generate designs that are not only realistic (plausible), but also efficient, reliable, and usable in complex 2D and 3D applica…

Rutsel Martha, voormalig minister van Justitie van de Nederlandse Antillen, voormalig General Council van Interpol en bovendien alumnus van de Universiteit Leiden, sprak over op de positie van Staten en intergouvernementele organisaties (IGO’s) binnen het internationaal financieel recht.