Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany defended her thesis on 16 Septem ber 2016.

Dit door NWO gefinancierde VICI-project (2025-2030) onder leiding van prof. dr. Petra M. Sijpesteijn onderzoekt de plaatsvormingsprocessen in het vroege Islamitische Rijk.

As per January 1st, Niek Strohmaier is part of Kifid’s arbitration committee.

Van 26 t/m 30 juni 2017 organiseert de afdeling Staats- en Bestuursrecht van de Universiteit Leiden een zomercursus over de Europeanisering van het nationaal bestuursrecht in de lidstaten van de Europese Unie.

Brian McGarry and Cecily Rose, both affiliated with the Grotius Centre, are members of an adjudicative body established under the auspices of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA). NSPA is ‘NATO’s lead organization for multinational acquisition, support and sustainment’ for the 32 NATO nations,…

The Study Information Committee works to create a positive and accurate picture of the bachelor and master programs offered by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). The committee consists of IBL staff members and study ambassadors. We reach out to future and current students, high school biology teachers,…

Zo’n 5000 jaar geleden deelden de mensen van de corded ware-cultuur ideeën over de dood op continentale schaal. Daarin zaten sterke genderverschillen: mannen werden in een internationale stijl begraven, vrouwen lokaal. Dat ontdekte archeoloog Quentin Bourgeois.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.

In dit artikel onderzoekt Sophie Vériter hoe een kleine staat het veiligheidsbestuur van de EU beïnvloedt.

Improvements of weak gravitational lensing shape measurements are presented and some used for data analysis.

In this top-rated course, you will learn how the European Union prepares and decides on policy, and how policy is transferred to member states and implemented by various authorities. It discusses the challenges of the European multi-level governance structure and the main causes of policy failure or…

Leiden is een echte studentenstad. Meld je aan voor een studievereniging of studentenvereniging om van jouw studietijd een onvergetelijke tijd te maken!

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

Commerciële bedrijven die gebruik willen maken van de expertise en faciliteiten worden doorverwezen naar LAB , de commerciële eenheid die verantwoordelijk is voor gespecialiseerd laboratoriumwerk.

Het Laboratorium voor Archeologische Studies is een geavanceerd laboratorium met geavanceerde Leica stereomicroscopen en meetinstrumenten en een uitgebreide referentiecollectie die wordt gebruikt voor onderzoek naar bijvoorbeeld de identificatie van fossiele resten. De collectie wordt ook gebruikt om…

Kijk mee en praat mee over de wetenschap van het verleden tijdens wekelijkse Let’s Plays van populaire games en vodcasts op het livestreamplatform Twitch.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

How should jurisdictions, both on the national and on the supra-national level, handle the interaction between public and private law where it regards the regulation of financial markets?

We verwelkomen gastwetenschappers wier onderzoek aansluit bij onze uiteenlopende expertisegebieden. De tekst gaat verder in het Engels.

The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.

The effects of anthropogenic noise on interactions between predators and their prey are still little understood.

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

Vinasse is a major by-product generated by the sugarcane biofuel industry. It is a source of microbes, nutrients and organic matter and often it is recycled as fertilizer.

In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important.

This thesis introduces a relational interaction model and a practical tool for describing, visualising and generating interactive dialogues.

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

Maandelijks interviewen we een student of medewerker van de Universiteit Leiden over hun werk of studie in relatie tot duurzaamheid.

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

Acute cardiovascular clinical events such as myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke represent the major cause of death in Western societies. These pathologies are primarily resulting from atherosclerosis, a progressive condition characterized by the accumulation of lipids, immune cells, and fibrous…

Vitamin A or retinol is essential in embryonic development, the visual cycle and the immune system.

Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…

Drug development is a time- and resource-consuming process that starts with the discovery and validation of a (protein) target that contributes to pathogenesis or disease progression.

Several single-stranded RNA viruses make use of Xrn1-resistant RNAs in their 3’ untranslated regions of their genome RNAs in order to increase their pathogenicity.

Promotor: Johan Kuiper, Co-promotor: Saskia C.A. de Jager

Salicylic acid (SA) is a plant hormone, which is involved in the defense responses to pathogens and to abiotic stress, and in the regulation of plant growth and development.

Religion, Philosophy, and the Pre-modern World

Onder de gezamenlijke titel ‘Scarcity and the State’ verschenen onlangs twee Engelstalige boeken over de verdeling van schaarse publieke rechten (Intersentia 2016). Paul Adriaanse (UL), Frank van Ommeren (VU), Willemien den Ouden (UL) en Johan Wolswinkel (Tilburg University) voerden de redactie. Aan…

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen (Università degli studi di Milano), Co-Supervisor: Ronald M. van Luijk

The mission of our group is understanding how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. We believe better science communication can improve our society and engage many different groups with science, also improving science.

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

In het academisch jaar 2023-2024 biedt het interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma Sociale Veerkracht en Veiligheid vier vakken aan voor studenten die beginnen met het derde jaar van hun bachelor. Deze vakken zijn te volgen binnen de ruimte voor keuzevakken. Je kunt de vakken afzonderlijk als keuzevak…

Aan de opleidingen van het Centre for Professional Learning op het gebied van Terrorisme, Recht en Veiligheid zijn verschillende (research) fellows verbonden. De fellows geven advies over de inhoud van het curriculum en de verbinding tussen wetenschap en praktijk.

Webinar met Q&A

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

The ultimate aim of this project (initiated by the European Law Institute) is to design a framework that will enable the further development of coherent and functional rules for business rescue in Europe.

ELS@Leiden heeft tot doel empirisch juridische onderzoeksvaardigheden en interdisciplinariteit een prominente plaats te geven in het rechtencurriculum.