Marcus Specht, directeur van het LDE Center of Education and Learning, is sinds 15 november aangesteld als Hoogleraar Digital Education. Hij heeft gezamelijke benoemingen bij de drie LDE universiteten. In Leiden zal hij zich aansluiten bij Felienne Hermans in het Programming Education Research Lab (…

Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

Vier Leidse studenten die de masterspecialisatie Science Based Business volgen, bedachten een concept om met een 3D Bioprinter menselijke huid te produceren. Slachtoffers van brandwonden zouden dankzij Skinprint minder operaties nodig hebben en er minder littekens aan over houden.

Understanding how galaxies form, interact, and evolve comes largely from comparing theory predictions with observational data. Numerical simulations of galaxies provide the most accurate approach to testing the theory, as they follow the non-linear evolution of gas and dark matter in great detail and…

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, E. Fouvry (Univeriste Paris Saclay)

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

In astronomy, the interpration of observations and measurements plays a crucial role: we rely purely and fundamentally on the information that reaches us as observers. And 80% of all matter in the universe is undetectable directly.

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

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;

Op de eerste dag van jouw nieuwe baan heb je zweethanden, ben je nerveus en onzeker, maar een paar maanden later zijn die gevoelens al weer verdwenen. Je hebt jouw nieuw rol eigen gemaakt en je bent nu onderdeel van de organisatie. Het proces dat daar naar toe leidt heet

Op 12 december 2018 heeft de Afdeling Jeugdrecht, op initiatief van mr. dr. Yannick van den Brink, dr. Stephanie Rap en prof. dr. mr. Ton Liefaard, een expert meeting georganiseerd over het thema ‘Equality, children’s rights and digital technologies’. Het doel van deze bijeenkomst was om tot een onderzoeksagenda…

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

Europese burgers worden geconfronteerd met uitdagingen op het gebied van globalisering, migratie, technologische ontwikkelingen en klimaatverandering. Deze uitdagingen vergen het uiterste van onderlinge internationale en intergenerationele solidariteit, wat rechtstreeks betrekking heeft op de grondslagen…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Prof.dr. A.H. Meijer

On 8 July, the symposium 'The digital reconstruction of the crucifixion of the Lindau master (ca. 1425)' will take place at the auditorium of Museum Catharijnecovent, from where it will also be broadcasted online.

Per 1 maart as. zal Alenka Prinčič in dienst treden bij de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden als hoofd van het Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS). Haar expertise op het gebied van Research Support, Research Infrastructures en Open Publishing en haar persoonlijke kwaliteiten als leidinggevende bieden…

The AT-Hook Nuclear Localized 15 (AHL15) gene belongs to a plant-specific gene family of DNA-binding proteins. Overexpression of AHL15 in Arabidopsis thaliana delays developmental phase transitions whereas its loss of function causes a slight acceleration.

This thesis investigates the application of deep learning techniques in image analysis across various domains, focusing on four main themes: feature extraction, classification, segmentation, and integration, demonstrating the transformative potential of these technologies.

Humans and songbirds learn their vocalizations early in life by exposure to the vocalizations of adult conspecifics. Often, better learning outcomes are achieved with live, social, tutors than with audio-only exposure to vocalizations.

De eerste index om de veiligheid, duurzaamheid en circulariteit van producten te meten, waarmee ze het EU-kader (SSbD) operationaliseren.

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

The largest structures in the Universe are clusters of galaxies. Each can contain hundreds to thousands of galaxies.

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

Promotores: K.J. Batenburg, B. Koren

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

Heterogeneous catalyzed processes are highly significant to the chemical industry. Dissociative chemisorption (DC) of molecules on surfaces is always considered as a step with a high degree of rate control for heterogeneous catalysis.

This thesis comprises the development of reproducible synthesis procedures for two-dimensional materials (composed of boron, nitrogen and carbon) on different metallic surfaces.

This thesis describes the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA), which consists of two small robotic telescope designed to detect exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky.

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

The thesis introduces three methods for high-dimensional prediction problems in the biomedical field. The methods make use of empirical and variational Bayes in the estimation.

The upscaling of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data is recognized as one of the main challenges in the ex-ante LCA of emerging technologies. This challenge arises since industrial-scale system specifications for these technologies are unknown and industrial data is lacking.

Hoe worden nachtruimtes verbeeld, geproduceerd, ervaren en verteld door migrantengemeenschappen in Europa? Dit onderzoeksproject onderzoekt deze vraag in acht Europese steden: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlijn, Cork, Galway, Lissabon, Londen en Rotterdam.

We present an extensive study of methods for exactly solving stochastic constraint (optimisation) problems (SCPs) in network analysis. These problems are prevalent in science, governance and industry.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

Metals surfaces form a group of effective catalysts for the reaction of small molecules such as hydrogen (H2).

In 2009-2010 ontstond in het westerse discours het idee van een meer ‘assertief’ China, een opvatting die China krachtig van de hand wijst. Niettemin is, vooral sinds Xi Jinping in 2012 aan de macht kwam, duidelijk dat China zijn lang gehanteerde buitenlandse beleidsdoctrine van ‘een lage profilering…