Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

Promotor: J. Schaye

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

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.

Promotor: Carel J. ten Cate, Co-Promotor: Hans W. Slabbekoorn

In the last decade, the redox interconversion between metal thiolate and disulfide compounds has been extensively investigated for copper, but not for other transition metal ions.

The focus of the dissertation

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

Time-series forecasting through modelling sequences of temporally dependent observations has many industrial and scientific applications. While machine learning models have been widely used to create time-series forecasting models, creating efficient and performant time-series forecasting models is…

Lezing

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotor: T.J. de Jong

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

Modeling and analysis of cyber-physical systems are still challenging. One reason is that cyber-physical systems involve many different parts (cyber or physical), of different nature (discrete or continuous), and in constant interaction via sensing and actuating.

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: A.J. Knobbe

Assessing the risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) solely on the basis of experimental assays is time-consuming, resource intensive, and constrained by ethical considerations (such as the principles of the 3Rs of animal testing). The adoption of computational toxicology in this field is a high p…

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. F. van Dishoeck

This thesis explores how bees and hoverflies are distributed across the Dutch landscape and how ecological and landscape factors shape their occurrence.

This joint Master with the Autonomous University of Barcelona will the equip you with the necessary competences to play a key role in the emerging field of transfusion medicine. The programme includes both transfusion of blood components and hematopoietic transplants, cellular and tissue therapy, and…

This course explores international arbitration as one of the most common methods of international dispute settlement. You will gain an in-depth understanding of international arbitration through the analysis of its role as a mechanism of dispute settlement, its institutions, the fields of law it is…

What are the pressing issues of our time, and how can different disciplines come together to address them? Studium Generale and Leiden University College (LUC) present the Global Challenges series: events that bring together researchers from LUC and experts from other disciplines to tackle a shared…

Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. This course examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy,…

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.

Our recent excavations have focused on the more recent New Kingdom/Late Period (ca. 1500-332 BCE) material.

An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr. K.E. Schalm

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Hoe kunnen praktijk en theorie elkaar versterken in de neurowetenschappen? Hoogleraar Birte Forstmann spreekt in haar oratie op 2 oktober over het bouwen van interdisciplinaire bruggen tussen cognitieve neurowetenschap en cognitieve modellen. Haar aanpak kan bijdragen aan hersenonderzoek met minder…

Is het mogelijk om oxytocine reacties bij gezonde personen farmacologisch te conditioneren en de neurale circuits te identificeren die aan deze conditionering ten grondslag liggen?

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Co-promotor: Frans Snik

Op 20 oktober 2021 verdedigde Michael Ramsden het proefschrift 'The Role of the United Nations General Assembly in Advancing Accountability for Atrocity Crimes: Legal Powers and Effects'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. N.M. Blokker.

Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, B. Erez, Co-promotor: L. Taelman

Mechanical interactions between cells and their environment play an important role in many biological processes.

Structural variants (SVs) are the hidden architecture of the human genome, and are critical for us to understand diseases, evolution, and so on.

Tijdens het najaarssemester (september-december) biedt het NIMAR een Engelstalige minor die zich richt op de studie van Marokko vanuit sociaalwetenschappelijk en geesteswetenschappelijk perspectief. Het semester onderwijst etnografische onderzoeksvaardigheden in een Marokkaanse omgeving.

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

How do you engage society to stop biodiversity loss? How do you create political and social involvement to deal with climate change? And how do you balance the economic needs of industry with the negative effects of pollution? If you find these kinds of questions interesting, then this Pre-University…

Het Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)-team, dat de allereerste foto van een zwart gat maakte, heeft vandaag een nieuwe afbeelding gepresenteerd. De afbeelding toont hetzelfde zwarte gat in gepolariseerd licht. Het is voor het eerst dat het astronomen is gelukt om polarisatie – een kenmerk van magnetische…

Promotie

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

Lezing

Op 23 juni 2020 verdedigde Santy Kouwagam haar proefschrift 'How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. A.W. Bedner en prof.dr. C.E. von Benda-Beckmann.

This thesis is is made of three parts. The first part describes a generalization of the Chabauty's method, that can be used to determine the rational points of a curve such that s+g>r+1, where g is the genusof the curve, r is the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of the jacobian of the curve and s is…

In this thesis we investigated the ability of two-photon multifocal microscopy for single-molecule microscopy in live cells and organisms.