Het Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo (NVIC) is in 1971 opgericht. Negen universiteiten in Nederland en Vlaanderen participeren in het NVIC met als doel het stimuleren en internationaliseren van hun onderwijs- en onderzoeksactiviteiten in het Midden-Oosten. De beheervoerende instelling is de Universiteit…

Promotor: Robert Tijdeman, Co-promotor: Cornelis Kraaikamp

Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

Promotores: C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, V. Meyer, Co-promotor: A.F.J. Ram

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Students Practicing Citizen Journalism

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

Onderzoek naar bemiddeling en moderatie.

Waarvan is tijd gemaakt? Wat is de kortste tijdsduur? Kan de toekomst ooit het verleden worden? Moeilijke vragen met moeilijke antwoorden. In de Volkskrant geeft natuurkundige Carlo Beenakker commentaar op het fenomeen van tijd.

Studenten van de Universiteit Leiden hebben in Den Haag het platform The Nuance Project opgezet voor open en respectvolle gesprekken over gevoelige thema’s. Het doel is elkaar echt te begrijpen en te verbinden, ook al heeft iedereen een andere mening.

Natuurkundigen Carlo Beenakker en Jan Aarts zijn verkozen als 'Fellow' van de American Physical Society. Beenakker: 'Mensen erkennen jouw bijdrage, dat is gewoon heel leuk om te horen.'

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

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…

When you have decided to participate in a Summer School of Leiden University, there are some matters you need to know before arrival. Please take a few minutes to read through the information here to find out what you can do from your side to smooth the process.

How can we broaden youth participation in STEM Learning

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Hieronder vind je de antwoorden op een aantal veelgestelde vragen over toelating tot de klinische specialisaties van de Master Psychologie.

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is offering two internships on a full-time basis in spring 2019.

De European Research Council (ERC) heeft een Advanced Grant toegekend aan twee Leidse onderzoekers. Joke Meijer gaat onderzoek doen naar de invloed van de biologische klok op onze gezondheid. Carlo Beenakker gaat op zoek naar Majorana-deeltjes in supergeleiders.

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

This thesis is largely an experimental study on the formation of solid-state simple and complex organic molecules in the H2O-rich and CO-rich ice phases of dense interstellar clouds and dark cores.

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

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De tweede geheel vernieuwde editie van 'The E-Primer' bespreekt hoe een breed scala experimenten kan worden geprogrammeerd in E-Prime 3. E-Prime is een van de meest gebruikte softwarepakketten voor het ontwerpen van psychologische experimenten.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

The application of nanomaterials in industrial processes and consumer products provides many societal benefits, but can also lead to the release of nanomaterials into the environment. The work in this dissertation aims to provide insights into the potential environmental impacts that may follow from…

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo

In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…

This doctoral thesis is an effort to understand how lipid phase-separation induced by diacylglycerol analogues in lipid-based nanoparticles affects their in vivo behavior, leading to specific nanoparticle-protein communications and selective cell targeting.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

The thesis is about the study of shell evolution of the Hydrocenidae of the genus Georissa. This thesis started with a general overview on the evolutionary process of animals due to ecological changes.

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…

This thesis mainly focuses on multimodal understanding and Visual Question Answering (VQA) via deep learning methods. For technical contributions, this thesis first focuses on improving multimodal fusion schemes via multi-stage vision-language interactions.

In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

This dissertation aims to advance understanding of amoeboid single cell migration under the influence of changing physicochemical environmental properties. The particular focus is on the relatively unknown influence of differing physical properties in the extracellular environment, such as the migratory…

De Leiden Slavery Studies Association (LSSA) is toegewijd aan het bevorderen van een beter begrip van slavernij en post-slavernij in elke periode en elk geografisch gebied.