Join this lecture from professor Daniel Aldrich at the Spanish Steps in Wijnhaven on Wednesday 3 November. Dr. Sanneke Kuipers, associate professor in Crisis Governance, will be the moderator of the lecture and she and professor Aldrich give us a preview of the event.

In dit interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma werken onderzoekers uit vijf verschillende disciplines met elkaar samen. Zij stellen zich hieronder (in het Engels) aan u voor.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

In this thesis we push the boundaries of high-resolution imaging at radio frequencies between 100 and 200 MHz. Using the International LOFAR Telescope that spans across Europe we achieve sub-arcsecond angular resolution.

SEAtrans: an interdisciplinary research project that aims at studying the dynamics and processes of transitions in society-nature interactions in Southeast Asian societies.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

Promotor: Jan van der Greef; Co-promotors: Mei Wang; Eduard van Wijk

The lysosomal β-glucosidase named glucocerebrosidase (GCase) is a retaining β-glucosidase that hydrolyzes the glycosphingolipid glucosylceramide (GlcCer) to ceramide and glucose at acid pH.

This thesis considers multi-prover commitment schemes whose security is based on restrictions on the communication between the provers.

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

The specialisation Science Communication and Society (SCS) concerns science communication in a broad sense. The program focuses on the link between science and society and covers knowledge and skills in the field of science communication.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

In this thesis, I study the formation of large-scale structure and the physics of particle acceleration at large scales (~Mpc).

Surface plasmons (SPs) are surface waves at the interface between a dielectric and a good metal, and are formed by the interaction between light and the free electrons at the metal-dielectric interface. They provide strong field confinement for optical fields, opening new possibilities for enhanced…

Kunnen we van quantum-verrassingen quantum toepassingen maken? Kunnen we het leven onderzoeken en opbouwen vanuit de nano-schaal?

Outflows are crucially important for the gas budget and evolution of luminous star-forming galaxies and AGNs, with observed mass outflow rates of the same order as the star formation rate. Greater star formation and black hole growth lead to more intense feedback and outflows, resulting in self-regulated…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

Lezing

Sinds 2015 roepen de Verenigde Naties 11 februari uit tot International Day of Women and Girls in Science. De Universiteit Leiden organiseerde een publieksevenement met lezingen en discussies voor ruim honderd geïnteresseerden. Tussen een lezing over de bouwstenen van leven en een talkshow over de impact…

Lezing

On Friday the 8th of January 2016, our PdD student Nathanja van den Heuvel made a public appearance on national television.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Geesteswetenschappen, Instituut voor Geschiedenis

On April 14 we will celebrate the launch of our Faculty action plan ‘diversity and inclusivity’ with a symposium. We will present the action plan and our colleague Professor Tomas Brage will be keynote speaker. He is the Director of Education at the Physics Institute of Lund University in Sweden and…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen

Promotie

The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?

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

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Benieuwd naar de afgelopen lezingen? In het archief bewaren wij de presentaties en eventuele verslagen van onze lezingen.

Leidse archeologen riepen de hulp van vrijwilligers in om te speuren naar archeologische resten op satellietbeelden van de Utrechtse Heuvelrug. Mede door de uitbraak van het coronavirus werd het project een daverend succes: in een maand tijd werden alle 300.971 kaarten onderzocht. ‘Dit overtreft mijn…

Tijdens de Leiden Science Family Day maakten meer dan 700 bezoekers kennis met de faculteit Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen. Jong en oud konden genieten van fascinerende proefjes, rondleidingen, interessante lezingen, spectaculaire stikstofshows en verschillende workshops. Een leerrijke dag met veel…

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…

Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.

We willen allemaal een betrokken gemeenschap vormen waarin we gehoord worden en prettig samenwerken. Maar hoe voer je een open gesprek over lastige onderwerpen?

Er was veel belangstelling. Onder het oog van bijna honderd onderzoekers, ondersteunende collega’s en Martijn Ridderbos , vice-voorzitter College van Bestuur, opende Lotte van Dillen, onderzoeksdirecteur Psychologie en Saskia Goedhard, directeur Bedrijfsvoering Geesteswetenschappen samen op ludieke…

Indicators to measure progress in de-linking economic growth and environmental pressure.

Even though more than 4000 extra-solar planets are known today, only a small fraction of these has been captured in an image. To better understand the planet formation mechanisms in solar-like environments we started the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES).

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

Atoms and molecules are the basic units of matter. If we keep dividing a bar of gold or a glass of water into smaller parts, at the end we are left with a single gold atom or a water molecule.

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

Artificial intelligence algorithms govern in subtle, yet fundamental ways, the way we live and are transforming our societies. The promise of efficient, low‐cost or ‘neutral’ solutions harnessing the potential of big data has led public bodies to adopt algorithmic systems in the provision of public…

Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.

This thesis systematically studies the physicochemical properties of non-planar, propeller-shaped, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The synthesis of several so-called propellerenes is described on a gram scale, using optimized procedures aimed at using less hazardous reagents and reducing the amount…

Religious Studies at Leiden University allows you to study a broad spectrum of religions and their manifestations.