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…

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

The AI Collaboration Centre focuses on delivering Smart Computing for Science & Industry. This is reflected in our long-term collaborations with industry and government partners. These partnerships keep our research grounded in real-world applicability while opening new directions within computer sc…

Wanneer zeggen we dat er bij een incident sprake is van geweld? Dat lijkt in eerste instantie misschien overduidelijk. Maar tussentijdse resultaten van een onderzoek van Jolien van Breen laten zien dat Nederlanders gebeurtenissen in steeds bredere context als gewelddadig bestempelen.

Na de aanslag op 22 mei 2017 in Manchester Arena komt de term 'soft target' nu vaak voorbij. Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, onderzoeker verbonden aan het Institute of Security and Global Affairs, heeft deelgenomen aan een Q&A over de aanslag in Manchester.

Religion, Philosophy, and the Pre-modern World

Vrijdag 28 juni 2019 vond de Mid Term Review van het facultaire onderzoek plaats. Onder de stralende zon werden onderzoeksprogramma's en projecten gepresenteerd aan de commissieleden en aan elkaar.

Congres/symposium, Call for papers

Cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs), such as CAR T cells, are highly complex biopharmaceutical products offering various treatment options for serious illnesses such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

Fungal infections pose a significant threat to individuals with compromised immune systems and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, they continue to jeopardize patient’s health.

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

This dissertation is organised into three parts, each addressing a distinct research area related to Gibbs measures.

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.

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.

In this thesis we study bistable reaction-diffusion equations on lattice domains.

Including modelling as part of software development appears to have various benefits.

With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: A.J. Knobbe

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

This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.

Low-mass main-sequence stars like our Sun are continuous sources of outflowing hot magnetised plasma. In the case of the Sun, this is known as the solar wind, whereas for other stars they are called stellar winds.

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Globally and regionally, biodiversity is declining and there are shifts in species’ occurrences and functional traits.

Plastics have become an integral part of modern society due to their versatility and durability.

The global transition toward low-carbon energy systems and the rapid expansion of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, are reshaping how modern societies produce, move, and process energy and information.

Na Zelenski en Poetin neemt ook president Biden het woord ‘genocide’ in de mond. We moeten niet te losjes omgaan met de term genocide, zegt hoogleraar internationaal Publiekrecht Larissa van den Herik.

De onderzoeksgroep Terrorism and Political Violence van de Universiteit Leiden bestudeert de oorzaken van radicalisering, de tactieken van extremistische groeperingen, en de effectiviteit van anti-terrorismebeleid. We onderzoeken ook de rol van media en de invloed van postkoloniale erfenissen in de…

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.

What are the pressing issues of our time, and how can different disciplines come together to address them? Studium Generale and Leiden University College (LUC) present the Global Challenges series: events that bring together researchers from LUC and experts from other disciplines to tackle a shared…

INFORM (Introduction of the data protection reform to the judicial system) is een project dat door het Directoraat-Generaal Justitie and Consumentenzaken van de Europese Commissie wordt gefinancierd.

Van onderwijs tot een verrijkende ervaring

Volgens berichten zijn duizenden Oekraïense kinderen vanuit bezette gebieden in Oost-Oekraïne naar Rusland overgebracht. Is dit, zoals de regering in Kiev beweert, een daad van genocide? De term genocide, gedefinieerd als de bedoeling om een bepaalde groep mensen uit te roeien, werd voor het eerst gebruikt…

Workshop

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

The aim of this thesis is to explore the use of Bioorthogonal Antigens to study the cross-presentation pathway.

Valerie Frissen (bijzonder hoogleraar Digital Technologies & Social Change bij eLaw - Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie bij de Universiteit Leiden) houdt zich vanuit haar leerstoel bezig met Responsible Innovation en kijkt ook met die bril naar vraagstukken rond het reguleren van de digitale…

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

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

De onderzoeksgroep Corporate Governance en Strategie onderzoekt hoe, met wie en voor wie een onderneming waarde creëert/vastlegt, met als doel de praktijk en beleidsmakers te informeren over kwesties rondom bestuur. De onderzoeksgroep focust zich op het duale karakter van de onderneming. Namelijk als…

How can we broaden youth participation in STEM Learning

The confinement of molecular catalysts in metal-organic frameworks has the potential to lead to significant improvements in selectivity, long term activity and catalyst stability.

Lezing, Seminar

Lezing