In september start de LeidenGlobal seminar-serie ‘Beyond Discipline and Place in the Social Sciences and Humanities’. De serie, bedoeld voor PhD’s en Research-studenten, behandelt de vraag wat het betekent om interdisciplinair onderzoeker te zijn. ‘Deze seminars helpen je om jouw identiteit als wetenschapper…

De Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs introduceert met genoegen een nieuwe serie research seminars. Het FGGA Research Seminar zal een forum zijn voor de presentatie van en discussie over actueel hooggekwalificeerd onderzoek naar onderwerpen waar de faculteit zich mee bezig houdt.

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

Machine Learning is becoming a more and more substantial technology for industry.

Lezing

This series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race, race-thinking, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first seminar will be held on Monday, October 19, at 12:00 EDT by…

Lezing, LACG Meetings

De wereld liet Rwanda in de steek ten tijde van de genocide en dat mag nooit meer gebeuren, zo stelde Cleveringahoogleraar Roméo Dallaire in zijn oratie op 26 november. Ook vroeg de Canadese generaal buiten dienst aandacht voor getraumatiseerde soldaten. ‘We moeten onze soldaten beter voorbereiden op…

Structural variants (SVs) are the hidden architecture of the human genome, and are critical for us to understand diseases, evolution, and so on.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal

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

World Teachers Festival 2024 - Celebrating and exploring language, culture, diversity and criticality in teaching and learning

CrO2, a half-metal ferromagnet, has shown great promise for superconducting spintronics applications for nearly two decades.

A critical look at the impact assessment modelling of metals in Life Cycle Impact Assessment and improvement options.

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The majority (80%) of e-waste generated globally are recycled informally in developing countries.

The unit residue group, to which the present thesis is devoted, is defined using the norm-residue symbol, which Hilbert introduced into algebraic number theory in 1897.

Growth and development affect the metabolism of drugs administered to neonates, infants, and children.

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

This thesis manuscript explores the use of video games as tools for conceptual exploration and academic research.

Promotor: B. van de Water

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

Mechanical forces are known to play an important role in bacterial colonies. In this dissertation, we study the self-organization at various stages of growing bacterial colonies, and focus on the mechanical effects of cell growth.

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.

This thesis pioneers diatom molecular identification and quantification through genome-scale methods, with four key aims: (i) reviewing DNA/RNA sequencing methods in aquatic biomonitoring to highlight their strengths and limitations;

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.

Promotor: G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: B. Metz

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: T.H. Reijmers

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

Promotors: W. Jiskoot; G.J. Witkamp, Co-promotor: M.R. Nejadnik

Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease resulting in the formation of an arterial plaque. Despite lipid lowering, recurrent cardiovascular events remain a risk. While atherosclerosis is primarily lipid-driven, the immune system plays a critical role in the pathophysiology.

Sewer pipes are an essential infrastructure in modern society and their proper operation is important for public health. To keep sewer pipes operational as much as possible, periodical inspections for defects are performed.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

The invention of neural networks marks a critical milestone in the pursuit of true artificial intelligence. Despite their impressive performance on various tasks, these networks face limitations in learning efficiently as they are often trained from scratch.

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…

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.

This dissertation consists of two parts, each of which considers a different research area related to random interval maps. In the first part we are interested in random interval maps that are critically intermittent.

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

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Molecular materials have been a subject of interest in fundamental research and applications for decades, and have been studied as bulk crystals, (thin) films and as individual molecules, due to the large variety in their properties. This dissertation explores pentacene crystals near the two-dimensional…

Practicum Artium (PA) is een traject speciaal ontwikkeld voor studenten van de Universiteit Leiden met een talent voor beeldende kunst. Kunst en onderzoek voeden elkaar en zijn op veel manieren met elkaar verweven. In Practicum Artium verken je artistieke praktijken en methoden en koppel je deze aan…

Op 28 januari 2015 nam Prof. Ton Liefaard deel aan een panel discussie over kinderen in gewapende conflicten, georganiseerd door The Hague Institute for Global Justice in samenwerking met de Canadese Ambassade in Nederland.

Deze serie benadert begrijpend lezen vanuit een cognitief perspectief. We beschrijven hoe lezers tot begrip komen. Dat wil zeggen: hoe zij coherente mentale representaties opbouwen tijdens het lezen van tekst.