Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.

This thesis is dedicated to the exploration of the primordial dark ages: unknown physics during the earliest stages of the Universe’s expansion that have not yet been directly probed by observations. Cosmic inflation is a burst of exponential expansion of space after the “Big Bang”.

Synthetic hydrogels that mimic the natural extracellular matrix in the biophysical and biochemical cues it provides to cells are in high demand, however the cell phenotypes as they are observed in vivo in numerous cases have yet to be attained.

CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

Op deze pagina vind je de belangrijkste zaken waar je als student van de Universiteit Leiden mee te maken hebt.

Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. This course examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy,…

De faculteit biedt verschillende mogelijkheden om naast je werk jouw kennis te verdiepen en te ontwikkelen. Binnen de thema's van de faculteit, of in jouw eigen werkveld als duale promovendus, word je onder goede begeleiding geholpen een volgende stap in jouw carrière te zetten.

Wil je een masteropleiding volgen aan een Nederlandse universiteit van wereldklasse? Dan kies je voor een master aan de Universiteit Leiden met topkwaliteit onderwijs en uitstekende carrièreperspectieven. Een universiteit die past bij wie je bent en waar je jezelf kunt zijn. Ontdek het in de gezelligste…

Om de juiste master te kiezen kun je je op verschillende manieren oriënteren. Twijfel je nog of weet je al welke richting je op wilt? De Universiteit Leiden heeft voor elke fase een voorlichtingsactiviteit om je kennis te laten maken met onze masteropleidingen.

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants⁠.

In this thesis, we have used numerical approaches to study the effects of translational symmetry breaking on strange metallic systems as realised by the holographic duality⁠.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris

In this thesis, I targeted the orchid genus Lepanthes, one of the six genera of angiosperms that surpasses 1,000 species in the Neotropics, as a study model to investigate the evolutionary processes that promoted species diversifications.

Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, A. Lucchini

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

β-Lactamases are enzymes that can break down β-lactam substrates, such as antibiotics, preventing the use of these antibiotics for the treatment of various infectious diseases. However, some compounds, β-lactamase inhibitors, can block these enzymes allowing for possible treatments using a combination…

Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria that have a complex multicellular life cycle and are well known for their ability to produce a wide range of bioactive natural products (NPs).

If X is a locally compact Hausdorff space, then a representation of the complex C* algebra C_0(X) on a Hilbert space $H$ is given by a spectral measure that takes its values in the orthogonal projections on $H$.

During embryonic growth, cells proliferate, differentiate, and collectively migrate to form different tissues at the right position and time in the body.

Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Universite Bordeaux I)

This thesis discusses the physical and chemical processes than influence the composition of forming planets.

Streptomyces are bacteria abundant in soil that participate in diverse and complex interactions. These bacteria are the main producers of the antibiotics we currently use in the clinic.

To contribute to the body of knowledge aiming at a better coverage of ecosystem service assessment in LCA studies, this thesis dives into the challenges of incorporating existing ecosystem service methods within the impact assessment phase of the conventional LCA framework.

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).

Promotor: B. van de Water

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

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

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.

Biological cells, the basic building blocks of all life forms, are surrounded by a lipid membrane. More than half of the membrane is occupied by membrane proteins, which can regulate the cell functionality through specific arrangements.

Promotores: E. van Dijk, G.R. de Snoo. Co-promotor: H. Staats

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.

Mining time series is a machine learning subfield that focuses on a particular data structure, where variables are measured over (short or long) periods of time.

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

In this thesis we explore machine and deep learning approaches that address keychallenges in high dimensional problem areas and also in improving accuracy in wellknown problems. In high dimensional contexts, we have focused on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

Galaxies are environments where gas coalesces, cools, and is converted into stars. However, it remains unclear the exact mechanisms through which galaxies acquire, redistribute and lose their gas.

This thesis focuses on data found in the field of computational drug discovery. New insight can be obtained by applying machine learning in various ways and in a variety of domains. Two studies delved into the application of proteochemometrics (PCM), a machine learning technique that can be used to…

Constant Hijzen, universitair docent aan het Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), sprak in het NRC over de Wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten. In de column ‘Twistgesprek’ van het NRC voert Hijzen een schriftelijk gesprek met de directeur van Bits for Freedom, Hans de Zwart, over…

What happens to electrical waves that have to cross gaps in insulation material around nerves in the human body

The main topic of this PhD thesis is the Arakelov ray class group of a number field, an algebraic object that contains both the ideal class group structure and the unit group structure.

Governance and Global Affairs, Instituut Bestuurskunde

Governance and Global Affairs, Instituut Bestuurskunde

De YAL laat zich horen over beleidskwesties.

We have examined sequences from the ligand-binding domain of the nicotinic acetyl choline receptor (nAChR) in 148 vertebrate species. We are in interested in this receptor because the α-neurotoxins of many venomous snakes binds to this receptor in its location at the neuromuscular junction in all ve…

Cryptanalist Marc Stevens van het Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, bekend van zijn 'kraak' van de MD5 hash-functie voor https-beveiliging in 2008, heeft deze week het recente Flame-virus geanalyseerd. Hij ontdekte dat voor deze spy malware een compleet nieuwe, tot nu toe onbekende…

In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

The bacterial cell wall is a nearly universal structure that offers protection and gives the cell its shape. However, environmental stressors, such as cell wall-targeting antibiotics and hyperosmotic conditions, can induce bacteria to shift to a wall-deficient state. It is unknown whether the lack of…