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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.

Social media gebruiken we dagelijks om te kletsen, te winkelen en ideeën uit te wisselen, maar omdat ze in handen zijn van 'Big Tech', onttrekken ze zich goeddeels aan toezicht. Een aantal experts, waaronder docent Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media Peter Burger, praten bij NRC over hoe we social media weer…

In aanloop naar de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen heeft het Leidse initiatief Nieuwscheckers in samenwerking met televisieprogramma Pointer en persbureau ANP een factcheckmarathon georganiseerd. Op ANP wordt uitgelegd hoe deze in zijn werk ging.

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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New Report Launched by ACPF with the support of the Department of Child Law and Health Law

Kennisbehoefte vanuit de praktijk en gebrek aan academische onderbouwing van met name collectieve vormen van sociaal werk in Nederland waren de drijfveren van Anouk de Koning, Femke Kaulingfreks en Maartje van der Woude om meer dan twee jaar geleden te beginnen aan een NWA aanvraag voor onderzoek naar…

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks

This thesis describes biochemical investigations of glucocerebrosidase (GBA), the lysosomal β- glucosidase that is deficient in Gaucher disease (GD).

The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

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

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a major health threat. Addressing this challenge requires among others the development of new antibacterial compounds. The research described in this thesis focuses on discovering novel antibiotics from soil bacteria, specifically Streptomyces and Paenibacillus.Despite…

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. F. van Dishoeck

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

Radiography is an important technique to inspect objects, with applications in airports and hospitals. X-ray imaging is also essential in industry, for instance in food safety checks for the presence of foreign objects.

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. J. de Vries

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm

In this thesis,

With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

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.

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

The applications of studying the early development of insects range from agriculture to material science.