This thesis mainly focuses on multimodal understanding and Visual Question Answering (VQA) via deep learning methods. For technical contributions, this thesis first focuses on improving multimodal fusion schemes via multi-stage vision-language interactions.

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.

This thesis combines field and laboratory studies to address some of the most pressing questions in the field of microplastic research.

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

This dissertation aims to advance understanding of amoeboid single cell migration under the influence of changing physicochemical environmental properties. The particular focus is on the relatively unknown influence of differing physical properties in the extracellular environment, such as the migratory…

Chapter 1,contains the numerical verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for hundreds of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2, 3, 4 and 5.

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

This thesis consists of three papers that are centered around the common theme of Hausdorff uo-Lebesgue topologies and convergence structures on vector lattices and on vector lattices and vector lattice algebras of order bounded operators.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, F. Andreatta

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

This thesis covers several aspects of quantum algorithms for near-term quantum computers and its applications to quantum chemistry and material science.

Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotores: M.G. Vijver, J.P.M. Vink

Supply risks are not new. But the aggravation of power conflicts on the international stage coupled with global shifts towards energy transition and digitalization has triggered the next supply risk research era.

The work in this thesis demonstrates how to obtain an atomic-scale picture of a diverse set of complex surface structures observed using STM, under disparate conditions.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

The Low Frequency Array enables studies of low-frequency carbon radio recombination lines with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral and spatial resolution.

During the course of drug discovery translational steps are made.

One of the major limitations in culturing complex tissues or organs is the lack of vascularization in the cultured tissue. Development of a functional capillary bed could overcome this problem.

When a star is born in our Galaxy, it is quite likely that it has formed within a massive cluster, which hosts numerous high-mass stars bathing their lower mass neighbours in UV radiation.

Dit project stelt het idee van een liberale Amerikaanse wereldorde ter discussie. Het onderzoekt hoe illiberale denkbeelden het buitenlands beleid van de VS vormden en wat dat betekent voor internationale politiek vandaag.

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The International Course on Water Use and Management in Cagayan Valley The Philippines (2011-2015)

De Swahilikust kent een lange geschiedenis van transoceanische islamitische verbindingen die teruggaat tot de 25e eeuw. Toch heeft de boekdrukkunst de wereld veranderd; niet alleen de onze. In dit project worden unieke vormen en archieven van intellectuele geschiedenis ontrafeld die vanuit Zuid-Zuid-verbindingen…

De komst van landbouw in west Nederland blijkt geen invasie maar eerder een langzame ontwikkeling van duizenden jaren, zo blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek waar Leidse archeologen bij betrokken waren. Buitenstaanders van boerengemeenschappen (vaak vrouwen) voegden zich bij lokale jager-verzamelaar groepen…

Onderstaand een overzicht van alle vakken die door de afdeling Economie worden verzorgd.

Overzicht van de voornaamste onderzoeksprojecten van het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut.

Full-day International Workshop

How should jurisdictions, both on the national and on the supra-national level, handle the interaction between public and private law where it regards the regulation of financial markets?

Webinar met Q&A

The chair of Ancient and Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen is organizing a new lecture series. In the RAM-lectures, a great variety of scholars in the fields of Antiquity and the Middle Ages will discuss their research. Students, PhD’s and staff are most welcome to attend. The lectures…

Jan Dumolyn, Professor of History at Ghent Universty gives the Inaugural lecture at the University of Namur. 12 March 2025

Sinds de Verenigde Naties in 2000 Resolutie 1325 heeft aangenomen over vrouwen, vrede en veiligheid, komt er langzaam maar zeker meer erkenning voor het gegeven dat vrouwen een belangrijke en beslissende rol zouden moeten hebben als het gaat om het voorkomen en oplossen van conflicten. Neem deel aan…

Lezing, Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize lecture