Sinds de 16e eeuw hebben religieuze overwegingen de studie van het Oudengels en zijn sprekers gemotiveerd. In de 19e eeuw wendden geleerden zich vooral tot de studie van de Oudengelse literatuur om sporen te vinden van voorchristelijke, 'Germaanse' religie, zoals besproken in Eric G. Stanley's baanbrekende…

In de 19e eeuw werden Oudengelse gedichten geclaimd als cultureel erfgoed door verschillende niet-Engelssprekende naties, waaronder Scandinaviërs, Duitsers en Nederlanders. Deze concurrerende nationalistische, culturele toe-eigeningen gebeurden tegen de achtergrond van een groeiende interesse in de…

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Het P.J. Cosijn Research Fellowship is een initiatief om veelbelovende BA- en MA-studenten van de Universiteit Leiden met interesse in Angelsaksische studies de kans te geven onderzoek te doen naar Oudengelse taal- en letterkunde. De Cosijn Fellowships zijn onderdeel van het door ERC gefinancierde project…

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

The Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, with additional support from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) and the Center for Collaborative History (CCH), organizes a virtual conference on Syriac Iconography. This conference gathers diverse scholars from across the…

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot

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

Hij bepleitte volkssoevereiniteit, was tegen de aristocratie en voor een bewapende revolutionaire garde. Maar hoe radicaal was leider van de patriottenbeweging Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) eigenlijk? En waarom is hij cruciaal voor de ontwikkeling van onze democratie? Zijn biograaf Dirk Alkemade geeft het…

The Department of Humanities of the University of Pavia will host the Third European Symposium in Celtic Studies from 7 to 9 September 2022. Papers are invited on any aspect of Celtic Studies, including language, literature, history, archaeology and culture from any period. Deadline for submission:…

All crested and marbled newts (the genus Triturus) suffer from an unusual genetic abnormality, called a balanced lethal system, that kills exactly half of their offspring. How can a trait so disadvantageous have survived millions of years of natural selection?

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

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

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

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

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

The radio sky harbours both galactic and extragalactic sources of arcminute- to degree-scale emission of various physical origins. To discover extragalactic diffuse emission in the Cosmic Web beyond galaxy clusters, one must image low–surface brightness structures amidst a sea of brighter compact fore-…

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

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)

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.

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.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

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

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: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

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.

Lysosomal acid glucosylceramidase (GBA1) is a lysosomal enzyme that degrades glucolipids with its main substrate being glucosylceramide (GlcCer). Defects in the GBA1 gene lead to glycosphingolipidosis Gaucher disease (GD), in which the hydrolysis of GlcCer is impaired and therefore, it accumulates in…

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

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?

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

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

We hechten collectief aan het behouden van ons natuurlijke en culturele erfgoed, zo lijkt het - wanneer historische plekken verloren gaan door oorlogs- of natuurgeweld wordt daar vaak op grote schaal om gerouwd. Maar wat nu als Werelderfgoed niet alleen een keurmerk is, maar ook een rookgordijn voor…

This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

The NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’ invites proposals for informal papers for a series of six e-workshops on the topic of ‘Multilingual Literary Cultures in the Middle Ages’. The e-workshops will take place in April…

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

Hoe verwerken we taal en spraak? Hoe voegen we de informatie op verschillende niveaus – intonatie, zinsstructuur, betekenis, toon, woorden, klanken - samen? Hoe staat de informatie op het ene niveau in verband met informatie op een ander niveau?

How do you engage society to stop biodiversity loss? How do you create political and social involvement to deal with climate change? And how do you balance the economic needs of industry with the negative effects of pollution? If you find these kinds of questions interesting, then this Pre-University…

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

Het project GRADIENTS onderzoekt wat het betekende om Europeaan te zijn in koloniaal Afrika, waar identificatie als Europeaan vaak niet afhing van huidskleur en werd gezien als een spectrum met vele gradiënten.

De master International Relations van de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit Leiden biedt een volledig inzicht in de complexe factoren die kenmerkend zijn voor de moderne wereld. De opleiding legt een voortreffelijke basis voor een carrière in de internationale arena.

De onderzoeksmaster History (research) van de Universiteit Leiden biedt een keuze uit vijf specialisaties waarin je je richt op historische processen, geschiedkundig onderzoek, historiografie en methodologie.