The use of increasingly large and diverse datasets to guide urban climate action has implications for how, and by whom, local governments are held accountable.

Humans share meaning through language. Over time, repeated interactions have shaped languages into forms that match our cognitive preferences, making them structured, expressive, easy to learn, and ultimately, meaningful.

The research presented in this thesis explores the chemotherapeutic potential of metal-based compounds as chemotherapy agents, with an initial focus on the synthesis and DNA interaction studies of platinum and palladium compounds utilizing the [Pt(bapbpy)]2+ scaffold. The study identifies intercalation…

De samenwerkingsbereidheid van leerlingen ligt ten grondslag aan een goede relatie tussen leraar en leerling, en is positief gerelateerd aan de betrokkenheid met school van leerlingen. Het bevorderen van samenwerkingsbereidheid in plaats van tegendraads gedrag van leerlingen zou vooral nuttig kunnen…

Anthropogenic change is reshaping ecological systems, raising concerns about increasing transmission of infectious diseases. Among these, mosquito-borne diseases may be particularly sensitive to environmental change, as their transmission depends on vector populations.

The aim of this thesis was to study phage infection in Streptomyces, focused on cell wall-deficient cells. Bacteriophages (or phages in short) attach to the cell wall of bacteria after which they replicate and lyse the host cell.

In this thesis, we have studied cell images from two types of cells, including pollen grains and the immune cells, neutrophils. These images are captured using a bright field microscope and a confocal microscope.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.L.V. Linnartz

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.J.J. Groenen, Co-Promotor: M. Huber

The monograph

Taalkundige Johan Rooryck gaat onderzoek doen naar leervermogen en kernkennissystemen, en hoe bezit in verschillende talen wordt uitgedrukt. Samen met collega-onderzoekers heeft hij twee NWO-subsidies van in totaal 2,75 miljoen euro ontvangen voor de onderzoeksprogramma’s ‘Knowledge and Culture’ en…

Tijdens de ILS Lunch Seminars kunnen alle onderzoekers van de faculteit hun onderzoek presenteren. Het doel is om op een toegankelijke en efficiënte manier op de hoogte zijn van onderzoeken van verschillende onderzoeksprogramma's en instituten. Gedurende een seminar van een uur zullen twee of drie sprekers…

ILS organizes a new lunch seminar series where all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what researchers from other research programs and institutes are working on. During a seminar two or three speakers will present their research.…

Afgelopen weekend heeft Italië aan Nederland verzocht twee schepen terug te roepen die onder de Nederlandse vlag varen voor de Libische kust.

My PhD research is devoted to studies of the conjectural cluster-algebraic symmetry in the theory of topological string, which is the simplest, however already non-trivial sector in the theory of string.

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

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Prof.dr. H.C. Gerritsen

This thesis combines field and laboratory studies to address some of the most pressing questions in the field of microplastic research.

This thesis describes the implementation and on-sky demonstration of high-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for extreme adaptive optics systems that are used to find and characterize exoplanets.

When a star is born in our Galaxy, it is quite likely that it has formed within a massive cluster, which hosts numerous high-mass stars bathing their lower mass neighbours in UV radiation.

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

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…

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

Promotor: Bas Edixhoven, Promotor: Qing Liu

The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…

Op vrijdag 24 maart aanstaande zal Prof. Amanda Perry–Kessaris (Kent Law School) de maandelijkse Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture verzorgen.

The path to rational drug and dose selection

This interdisciplinary minor addresses sustainabilty challenges from a systems perspective, and investigates ways to sustain society within planetary boundaries.

Research

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

To answer questions that look beyond individual entities, network science studies the interactions taking place in complex systems. These complex systems can often have temporal information on when an interaction occurs.

This thesis presents the results of a study on the interfaces of insulating oxides with and without the insertion of a magnetic layer.

Cardiovascular disease is a major global burden and atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathological process.

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Freshwater and brackish water ecosystems are arguably the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth, due to concentrated human developments in and around them. The Pontocaspian (PC) region located at the border of Europe and Asia contains a variety of brackish water ecosystems and unique inhabitants, known…

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: J-P. Amorij

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

This thesis is a collection of theoretical works aiming at adjusting quantum algorithms to the hardware of quantum computers.

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

Inactivating mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes predispose to several types of cancer.

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a major cereal crop that millions of subsistence farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) rely on. However, the scourging impact of the root parasitic weed Striga (Striga hermonthica, a.k.a. “witch-weed”) has remained a major constraint hampering the productivity of sorghum in…

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

SDN (Software-Defined Networking) represents a revolutionary approach to network architecture that enables the dynamic and flexible management of network resources through software-based control. This dissertation introduces the idea of SDN and its southbound protocol OpenFlow, then presents the formal…

Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: S.C. Hille

n this PhD thesis, the recombination of different atomic lattices in stacked 2D materials such as twisted bilayer graphene is studied. Using the different possibilities of Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), the domain forming between the two atomic layers with small differences is studied.