Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh

This dissertation investigates the energy and material related impacts of the transition towards a low-carbon heating system in the Netherlands, in the context of its 2050 climate and circular economy policy goals.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo

Streptomyces are multicellular, Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum of actinobacteria which produce a high amount of bioactive natural products of which the expression is tightly coordinated with the life cycle.

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

De tweede geheel vernieuwde editie van 'The E-Primer' bespreekt hoe een breed scala experimenten kan worden geprogrammeerd in E-Prime 3. E-Prime is een van de meest gebruikte softwarepakketten voor het ontwerpen van psychologische experimenten.

Kijk mee en praat mee over de wetenschap van het verleden tijdens wekelijkse Let’s Plays van populaire games en vodcasts op het livestreamplatform Twitch.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Striga hermonthica, commonly known as witchweed, infests major cereal crops in Sub-Saharan Africa causing severe yield losses and threatening the livelihood of millions of resource poor farmers.

This thesis is dedicated to the exploration of the primordial dark ages: unknown physics during the earliest stages of the Universe’s expansion that have not yet been directly probed by observations. Cosmic inflation is a burst of exponential expansion of space after the “Big Bang”.

Artful Mathematics: The Heritage of M. C. Escher

The ultimate goal of cosmologists is to find a cosmological model able to explain the current observational data.

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Een échte professor in de klas!

De tweejarige masteropleiding Philosophy of the Arts van de Universiteit Leiden biedt de mogelijkheid om je te specialiseren in conceptuele en methodologische kwesties in de geesteswetenschappen.

This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work.

Alumnus en oud-lid Raad van Advies Kees van Lede, oud-topman van AkzoNobel, is op 78-jarige leeftijd overleden. De heer Van Lede overleed op 22 december jongstleden aan de gevolgen van corona.

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) biedt een 3-jarige bacheloropleiding aan waarin je je focust op Global Challenges; grote uitdagingen waar de mensheid mee te maken heeft: Vrede & Rechtvaardigheid, Diversiteit, Duurzaamheid en Welvaart. Je hebt ruimte om de opleiding zo in te richten als je…

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) biedt een 3-jarige bacheloropleiding aan waarin je je focust op Global Challenges; grote uitdagingen waar de mensheid mee te maken heeft: Vrede & Rechtvaardigheid, Diversiteit, Duurzaamheid en Welvaart. Je hebt ruimte om de opleiding zo in te richten als je…

An Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) is a highly luminous region at the center of a galaxy, powered by the accretion into a supermassive black hole and emitting energy from radio waves to gamma rays, often outshining the host galaxy.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.

Promotor: Jelle S. Kaastra Co-promotor: Jelle de Plaa

In this research I assess the impact of the recently discovered gas reserves south off Cyprus on the escalation of the Cyprus conflict.

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. M. van der Zee

Promotor: J. A. Bouwstra

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

Promotores: Prof.dr. S.J. Edixhoven, Prof.dr. E. Ullmo (University Paris-Sud)

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

Nowadays, it is well known that hydrogen and helium (and small traces of lithium and beryllium) were created shortly after the Big Bang, while the heavier elements are created in the cores of stars at different evolutionary stages. When these stars explode as supernovae, they expel metals synthesised…

This thesis investigates a pharmacological challenge model induced by Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) activation, focusing on skin inflammation and its implications for early drug development.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

Ruim 1200 leerlingen uit groep 7 van basisscholen in Leiden en Den Haag kregen op de verjaardag van de universiteit les van een echte professor.

In this course, you will explore the organs involved in our food digestion and discover the common causes of abdominal and pelvic pain. The latest graphics and animations will give you new insights and understandings of this part of the body.

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

Every organisms in the tree of life faces the same challenge: the length of its DNA exceeds the volume of the cell it needs to fit in. Several strategies have evolved to solve this problem, one of them being the expression of proteins that bind and organize the DNA.

Seagrass is a marine flowering plant with special adaptations to coastal and marine environments, playing a crucial role in providing a wide range of ecosystem services.