This thesis aims to demonstrate how the achromatic nature and design flexibility of liquid-crystal optics can be used to improve high-contrast imaging instruments to facilitate detailed exoplanet characterization.

Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

Video games have emerged as one of the most interesting media of the turn of the century. The peculiar characteristic of video games is the biunivocal interaction between the computer and the human player.

De masteropleiding International Organisation wordt aangeboden door de Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag. Op deze pagina wordt uitgelegd waarom studenten voor deze opleiding en locatie kiezen.

Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.

Promotor: C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, Co-promotor: Sandra de Weert

A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.

The present thesis focuses on the pharmacological concept of drug-target interaction, which dates back to the beginning of modern pharmacology.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. A. Bouwstra, Prof.dr. W. Jiskoot

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.

The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.

The ultimate aim of this project (initiated by the European Law Institute) is to design a framework that will enable the further development of coherent and functional rules for business rescue in Europe.

The thesis is part of a bigger project, the HEPGAME (High Energy Physics Game). The main objective for HEPGAME is the utilization of AI solutions, particularly by using MCTS for simplification of HEP calculations.

Promotor: Richard D. Gill

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Samenlevingen wereldwijd worden geconfronteerd met grote uitdagingen, die voortkomen uit onder meer klimaatverandering, technologische innovaties en politieke en economische crises. In de master Public Administration (MSc) pak je deze vraagstukken aan vanuit een multilevel governance-perspectief.

Ontdek het studentenleven bij de MSc Political Theory: Legitimiteit en Rechtvaardigheid aan Universiteit Leiden: studieverenigingen, activiteiten, academische gemeenschap en wonen in Leiden en Den Haag.

This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Sinds 2009 behaalden 95 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

The Index of Middle English Prose, of which twenty-three volumes have been published since 1984, now has an online presence at imep.lib.cam.ac.uk. Thanks to the kind co-operation of Cambridge University Library and of the publishers, Boydell & Brewer, the indexes to all the volumes are now available…

Former PhD student of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) Bart Thomee has received this year’s Rising Star Award from the Multimedia group of ACM, the worldwide computer science association. Today, Thomee is a successful researcher at Yahoo Labs.

The Diplo21 network organizes scientific meetings to provide young researchers working on diplomacy and written practices in medieval Europe with a forum for scientific dialogue and debate, independent of national historiographic traditions. The first theme chosen is 'the charter's spaces'. The particular…

Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau

This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

De onderzoeksgroep Terrorism and Political Violence van de Universiteit Leiden bestudeert de oorzaken van radicalisering, de tactieken van extremistische groeperingen, en de effectiviteit van anti-terrorismebeleid. We onderzoeken ook de rol van media en de invloed van postkoloniale erfenissen in de…

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

Goed werkgeverschap is net als goed werknemerschap een open norm. Daarmee is het onduidelijk en onzeker waar werkgevers zich op dienen te richten en welke rechten (en plichten) werknemers hebben in dat verband. De doelstelling van dit onderzoek is om invulling te geven aan de norm goed werkgeverschap…

Deze colleges zijn in het Engels, u kunt vragen stellen en reageren in het Nederlands.

Kijk regelmatig op deze pagina voor meer informatie over het vergroten van de biodiversiteit aan de Universiteit Leiden.

Op 10 maart opent in Museum De Lakenhal de tentoonstelling David Bailly – Tijd, dood en ijdelheid.

Religion, Philosophy, and the Pre-modern World

Optimally solving real-world expensive Black-Box Optimization (BBO) problems w.r.t. real-world constraints, such as wall-clock time and computational costs, is extremely difficult and tedious.