In de landelijke Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek werken onderzoekers op het gebied van de Middeleeuwen van zes Nederlandse universiteiten samen. De school verzorgt (in samenwerking met de lokale graduate schools van de universiteiten) de opleiding tot mediëvistisch onderzoeker en biedt ook opleidingsactiviteiten…

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck

This thesis explores different avenues to develop insurmountable antagonists for CC Chemokine Receptors, such as CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5.

Does roadside management in the mid-west USA increase invertebrate diversity similar to practices in Europe?

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

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

The main subject of this thesis is the design and synthesis of paramagnetic molecules for protein studies with NMR and EPR spectroscopy.

This thesis describes the development and optimization of the first molecular tools to study the enzyme PLA2G4E.

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

Special Issue in: Visual Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2016

Overzicht van de CML-publicaties

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

This PhD research sets out to unravel and explain the socio-structural and cultural impacts of oil-industrialization on the local Bakhtiari community in general and the industrial laborers it provided in specific.

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…

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: H.V.J. Linnartz

Lysosomal acid glucosylceramidase (GBA1) is a lysosomal enzyme that degrades glucolipids with its main substrate being glucosylceramide (GlcCer). Defects in the GBA1 gene lead to glycosphingolipidosis Gaucher disease (GD), in which the hydrolysis of GlcCer is impaired and therefore, it accumulates in…

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

This PhD thesis concerns the topic of arithmetic geometry. We address three different questions and each of the questions in some way is about counting how big some set is or can be.

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-promotor: S. J.T. van Noort

Sound is everywhere in the marine environment and hearing is therefore a very important for stimuli for fish. They use sound for orientation and communication, during migration, aggregation and spawning, but also for detection of prey and predators.

The growing demand of energy indicates that global energy resources in the form of fossil fuels will not be sufficient in the future. In order to solve potential future energy problems development of a sustainable hydrogen economy is highly desirable.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

In this thesis new methodologies are developed for the detection and systematic study of radio sources in the early universe. This allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, the activity of supermassive black holes, and the final phase transition of our universe:…

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

Carolien Stolte heeft een Early Career Award ontvangen van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW). Ze kreeg deze prijs voor haar onderzoek naar de rol van informele Afro-Aziatische netwerken in de Koude Oorlog. Voor dit vernieuwende onderzoeksbeeld ontving ze de prijs, een bedrag…

On Friday, 29 October 2021 (15.15-17.00), this year’s lecture will be delivered by Prof. Howard Louthan, (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) at the Faculty Club of Leiden University. It will be titled ‘Revisiting a Renaissance Classic: Theuerdank, Maximilian I (1486-1519) and the Discovery of…

Op woensdag 27 januari opent het LeidenAsiaCentre de deuren. Het is dé plek voor toegepaste wetenschap over Azië in Nederland.

What is the environmental impact of different waste collection systems across Europe? How can the collection be improved when considering collection, sorting, and treatment, as well as use options for secondary materials?

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft

De afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen houdt zich bezig met vraagstukken op het gebied van ondernemerschap, organisatiepsychologie en insolventie. Op de afdeling werken docenten en onderzoekers uit verschillende disciplines, zoals marketing, economie, finance, strategie en de gedragswetenschappen.

Plants and their pollinators form complex interaction networks. Within these networks, species differ widely in the number of species they interact with.

The expedition commanded by Nicolas Baudin to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia, Timor and South Africa in 1800-1804 is fully researched in regard to ornithology.

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

To get an idea of the science communication products and research that is possible, a few examples of student projects of recent years are shown below.

Ethiopian wolves are endangered diurnal Afroalpine rodent hunters. I investigated the interaction between wolves, rodents and human land use in Borena Sayint National Park (BSNP), Abune Yosef and Aboi Gara in Ethiopia.

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.

Op 11 juni 2020 verdedigde Sabine Witting haar proefschrift 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr.mr. S. van der Hof.

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