A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.

Afgestudeerd antropologe Ildikó Plájás heeft op het internationale Astra Film Festival in Sibiu, Roemenië, de prijs gewonnen voor beste documentaire in de studentencompetitie.

EUROTYPES is een onderzoeksproject van politicoloog Adina Akbik, waarvoor ze onlangs een startsubsidie van de European Research Council ontving. Haar doel is het onderzoeken van de impact van culturele stereotypen in Europese beleidshandhaving, op diverse niveaus. Wat EUROTYPES zo vernieuwend maakt,…

Discover the unique Vital Interests course in the BSc Security Studies programme, featuring an inspiring session on climate diplomacy with Dutch UNFCCC negotiators.

Solliciteer nu voor de LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim world. De summer school vindt plaats in Leiden van dinsdag 15 augustus 2017 tot en met vrijdag 25 augustus 2017. Solliciteren kan tot vrijdag 16 juni 2017.

Het academisch jaar nadert zijn einde en de zomer komt in zicht. Studenten van FGGA werken hard om alles af te ronden. We vroegen aan een aantal van hen hoe zij terugkijken op het afgelopen jaar en naar hun inzichten en tips voor medestudenten.

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

'Fighting for Nothing to Happen', de eerste film van antropoloog Nora Wildenauer, is op het Amerikaanse Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival in Denver bekroond met de Best Graduate Student Film Award.

This dissertation explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) can effectively and responsibly contribute to complex decision-making processes. By combining AI and human intelligence, Hybrid Intelligence (HI) emerges, allowing the strengths of both humans and machines to be utilized.

What are the pressing issues of our time, and how can different disciplines come together to address them? Studium Generale and Leiden University College (LUC) present the Global Challenges series: events that bring together researchers from LUC and experts from other disciplines to tackle a shared…

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

Second-year MIRD students showcase their thesis research on global issues during the 2025 Thesis Symposium, bridging theory and diplomatic practice.

Op donderdag 17 oktober organiseerde de masteropleiding Crisis and Security Management (CSM) een informatief alumni-panel met vijf afgestudeerden uit verschillende cohorten. Het panel bood huidige studenten de kans om te luisteren naar professionals die hun eigen weg hebben gebaand in crisis- en vei…

Het secretariaat van Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking is op de derde verdieping van het Pieter de la Courtgebouw, kamer 3a63.

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Early time-resolved experiments by Frauenfelder on the ensemble of the kinetic rebinding of CO to myoglobin molecules resulted in a stretched exponential relaxa-tion due to a very large spread of the reaction rates of individual molecules.

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: G.K. Miley

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…

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

Cristina Grasseni’s project

Aan het Instituut Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie (CAOS) zijn meer dan 50 promovendi verbonden. Hun onderzoek omvat een reike verscheidenheid aan thema's.

Er zijn veel studies waarmee je kunt instromen in de master Health, Ageing and Society! Veel gezondheidsgerelateerde opleidingen zijn direct toelaatbaar, maar je bent ook welkom met een andere studieachtergrond.

Hot rocky exoplanets are planets that orbit so close to their host star that they possess a molten surface.

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

This article 'Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership' assesses the role, influence and core aspects of the EU High Representatives’ (HR/VPs) “political leadership” in the context…

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

This thesis explores the theoretical and observational properties of distant massive galaxies that harbour active black holes in their centres and shine brightly at radio wavelengths.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

A dense region of a gaseous and dusty cloud collapses to form a protostar surrounded by a disk and an envelope. This thesis uses both observations and models to study physical and chemical conditions of these protostellar systems which are likely where planets start to form.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

In this thesis we will explore the use of fuzzy systems theory for applications in bioinformatics.

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?