What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?

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

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

The plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development through polar cell-to-cell transport-generated maxima and minima. PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers determine the direction of this auxin flow through their asymmetric placement on the plasma membrane (PM).

If mankind wants to survive into the 22nd century, we will need to change the way we live drastically. The human impact on our planet is everywhere, we are changing the atmosphere, the oceans and the land, leading to global warming, climate change, loss of biodiversity and pervasive pollution. There…

The Sustainable City Map serves as a comprehensive guide to achieve a sustainable lifestyle within the city. Whether you’re new in town or just looking to make greener choices, this map has something for everyone!

Promotor: C. W. J. Beenakker, Yu. V. Nazarov, Co-promotor: J. Tworzydlo

Pharmaceutical companies, governments and the general public have become increasingly aware that animal models used in drug testing lack vital aspects to serve as an accurate representation of human biology. As models of the human body should become more physiologically relevant, animal models no longer…

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

Het volgende rapport bespreekt onze enquête over de UN Sustainable Development Goals die werd verspreid onder onderzoekers aan de Universiteit Leiden in november 2021.

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

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

The PID-directed shift in PIN polarity has been broadly accepted as one of the essential mechanisms for the regulation of auxin transport polarity.

The studies in this thesis are focused on the physical effects in the flat band materials. The results contain the discovery of strong enhancement of RKKY spin-spin interactions with specific geometric arrangement and dynamical generation of excitonic order parameter with high magnitude.

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.

Majorana fermions in superconductors are the subgap quasiparticle excitations that are their own antiparticles.

Tax scandals, like the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the Pandora Papers, have made taxation a major topic of public debate. Learn more about this in the new minor Tax and Society: Building a Sustainable and Fair Tax System.

The interest of this thesis lies in spin transport in normal metals and superconducting half-metallic junctions.

Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

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

In this thesis, classes of strongly interacting quantum field theories, have been studied.

What is vegetation structure and composition in SFM primary forest, secondary logged over forest (logging FSC certified and logging non certified) in comparison to primary forest? What is avian guild diversity in SFM primary forest, secondary logged over forest (logging FSC certified and logging non…

Luchtvaart is een mondiale kwesitie. Toch zijn er maar weinig landen die de veiligheid van passagiers echt kunnen garanderen.

Ferritin is a spherical metalloprotein, capable of storing and releasing iron in a controllable way. It is composed of a protein shell of about 12 nm and within its cavity, iron is stored in a mineral form.

I will give a general introduction to the field of molecular electronics, its history, methods and challenges. I will also introduce the subject of my investigation and provide a brief outlook to the remainder of our thesis.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh, C.J.M. Musters

Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.

A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Op 9 juni 2020 verdedigde Maral Darouei haar proefschrift 'Managing a sustainable career in the contemporary world of work: Personal choices and contextual challenges'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. J.I. van der Rest.

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.

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…

Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

Thermodynamics is one of the founding scientific pillars that has helped us better understand heat engines, biology, ecosystems, and even black holes. While it fundamentally describes large systems by examining the bulk behavior of their constituents, it is anchored in the statistical equivalence of…

Prof.dr. Gert Jan Kramer is bij de Faculteit Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen in deeltijd benoemd tot hoogleraar Sustainable Energy. Kramer is en blijft daarnaast manager Energy Futures bij Shell. Tot zijn aantreden in Leiden was Kramer hoogleraar bij de TU Eindhoven.

Wil jij laten zien dat duurzaamheid en het bedrijfsleven goed samen kunnen gaan? En ben jij klaar voor een uitdaging? Geef je dan op voor de Sustainable Business Battle, een zesweekse business case challenge waar studententeams bedrijven helpen met innovatieve én duurzame oplossingen.

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

Dat duurzaamheid en het bedrijfsleven goed samen kunnen gaan, bewezen de enthousiaste finalisten van de Sustainable Business Battle. Vol vuur pitchten zij hun groene oplossingen, van een Energy Race-app voor DUWO tot met planten begroeide fietsenstallingen op het BioScience Park.

In unconventional high temperature superconductors, supercurrent vortices are known to spoil the Landau levels. In this thesis the emergence of Landau levels is studied in different types of superconductors: Weyl superconductors, and the Fu-Kane heterostructure.

Een escaperoom waarin je moet ontsnappen aan verdrinking, om je zo bewust te maken van het gevaar van overstromingen en het belang van duurzaamheid. Met dit idee voor het Hoogheemraadschap won een team van vier studenten van de Universiteit Leiden en de Haagse Hogeschool de Sustainable Business Battle…

Indonesia is experiencing various environmental challenges related to its fast economic growth. Therefore, it is necessary to have measurable and applicable indicators to obtain accurate data and information regarding the costs of adverse environmental impacts arising from economic activities to support…

A novel mathematical model describes spatial-temporal drug distribution within one or more brain units, which are cubic representations of a piece of brain tissue with brain capillaries at the edges.