Er zijn wereldwijd vele open (leer)materialen beschikbaar, maar deze worden nog niet of zeer beperkt gebruikt in het onderwijs.

Open Science verandert de manier waarop onderzoek wordt gedeeld en wordt samengewerkt. Anna van ’t Veer won een award voor haar Open Science-activiteiten.

Voor de transitie van het taalkundig onderzoek naar Open Access zijn de betrokken universiteiten in VSNU-verband gevraagd zich financieel garant stellen. De universiteiten hebben hiermee ingestemd, zo ook de Leidse.

Op 8 juli 2020 verdedigde Andres Sarmiento Lamus zijn proefschrift 'The Proliferation of Dissenting Opinions in International Law'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik en prof.dr. Y.A.A.S. Radi (UCLouvain).

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

De Nederlandse universiteiten zijn in VSNU-verband nog volop in onderhandeling met de wetenschappelijke tak van uitgever Elsevier. Met uitgeverijen als Springer, Wiley en SAGE is al een akkoord gesloten en is de weg naar open access ingeslagen.

In de maanden maart, april en mei organiseerde het programma Transparantie in Informatie, van de ministeries van Economische Zaken en Klimaat (EZK) en Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit (LNV), gesprekken over de veranderopgave naar een Open Departement. De sessies hadden als doel om een eerlijk en…

Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Schilthuizen

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.

The major and ultimate aim of metabolomics is to obtain an answer to a specific biological or clinical question.

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In design optimization problems, engineers typically handcraft design representations based on personal expertise, which leaves a fingerprint of the user experience in the optimization data. Thus, learning this notion of experience as transferrable design features has potential to improve the performance…

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The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

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Anthropogenic change is reshaping ecological systems, raising concerns about increasing transmission of infectious diseases. Among these, mosquito-borne diseases may be particularly sensitive to environmental change, as their transmission depends on vector populations.

De rectoren van de Nederlandse universiteiten stellen hun recente wetenschappelijke werk wereldwijd gratis online beschikbaar. Zo willen zij het goede voorbeeld geven aan alle onderzoekers in Nederland. Ook de Leidse rector Carel Stolker doet mee.

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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?

Jelle van Buuren, universitair docent bij het Institute of Security and Global Affairs, bespreekt bij One World de reden dat rechtsextremisten zich ook in de coronasceptische beweging bevinden.

Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm

Trigonostemon Blume is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 59 species.

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, A. Plaat, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

Cancer is considered the silent pandemic of the 21st century and the second leading cause of death worldwide.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

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

Actinobacteria are well known for the production of bioactive natural products, many of which have applications in the fields of human, animal and plant health. Subject of this thesis are the anthracyclines, glycosylated aromatic polyketides with potent anticancer activity.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

Balsaminaceae is a diverse plant family characterized by a huge floral morphological diversity.

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Evelien Campfens het proefschrift 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof.dr. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).

Hydrocarbonylation of alkenes with carboxylic acids in synthesis of carboxylic acid anhydrides is relatively less explored. We herein present a study and optimization of a palladium-catalyzed hydrocarbonylation reaction of alkenes using carboxylic acids as the nucleophile, by which acid anhydrides can…

The spindle-assembly checkpoint (SAC) is a safety mechanism which secures accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis.

More than 5,000 exoplanets have been found over the past couple of decades. These exoplanets show a tremendous diversity, ranging from scorching hot Jupiters, common super-Earths, to widely separated super-Jupiters on the planet/brown dwarf boundary.

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

Promotores: J. Jonkers, K.E. de Visser

Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and the theory of it is not always analytical and elegant.

Sound is everywhere in the marine environment and hearing is therefore a very important for stimuli for fish. They use sound for orientation and communication, during migration, aggregation and spawning, but also for detection of prey and predators.

Het doel van het RAISE Onderzoek is om te onderzoeken hoe veerkrachtige mensen omgaan met stress. We kijken specifiek naar hoe belangrijke biologische systemen, zoals de HPA-as en het immuunsysteem, samenwerken met de hersenen en de sociale omgeving om veerkrachtig functioneren na moeilijkheden in de…