Promotor: G.P. van Wezel

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.

Conventional food supplies procured from rural areas are increasingly vulnerable to disruptions caused by extreme weather, geopolitical instability, and logistical bottlenecks.

As part of an interdisciplinary PhD programme, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry external link (ICON) is hiring a PhD Candidate for the research project ‘Empowering Individuals, Opening Cities: Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. This opportunity is funded by the administrative…

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position within the project ‘Libraries as Links in Learning: Making the Meaning of Manuscripts’ (1.0 fte, 4 years). The PhD candidate will track changing professional and scholarly practices and attitudes towards…

We verwelkomen gastwetenschappers wier onderzoek aansluit bij onze uiteenlopende expertisegebieden. De tekst gaat verder in het Engels.

From September 2024, the existing departments of History and Medieval Studies will join forces and launch CEU’s new Department of Historical Studies. Our research and teaching are recognized for their innovative approach to graduate education, and our international faculty offers expertise that extends…

LUCAS nodigt sollicitanten uit te reageren op de vacature van PhD (1,0 fte). De PhD gaat werken aan het NWO onderzoeksprogramma 'The illustrated Aesopian Fable in Education in France 1500-2010', onder supervisie van Prof. dr. P.J. Smith.

Ghent University's Department of History is hiring 1 PhD researcher (m/f/x) for an FWO Senior Research project on the pragmatic, socio-economic and legal historical context in which the oldest borough charters in the Low Countries and northern France were negotiated and codified (late 11th-early 13th…

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

Op 28 februari 2019 organiseert de Stichting Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection een workshop voor promovendi vanuit Europa en daarbuiten. Tijden deze workshop kunnen zij hun onderzoeksideeën presenteren maar ook de vragen en uitdagingen in het doen van onderzoek. De workshop wordt gehouden op de…

Op woensdag 19 en donderdag 20 april 2023 organiseerde de Stichting Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection (BWILC) haar vijfde PhD Workshop on European and International Insolvency Law.

The ERC project Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe (EMERGENCE), led by Thijs Porck (Leiden University) is hiring 1 postdoctoral researcher and 2 PhD's. Details on the individual projects can be found below. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle) produces valuable monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) such as vincristine and vinblastine, crucial for cancer treatment.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotores: N.R. Mustafa, A.E. Schulte

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Industrial manufacturing processes, such as the production of steel or the stamping of car body parts, are complex semi-batch processes with many process steps, machine parameters and quality indicators.

Humanity stands at a pivotal juncture, facing the dual challenge of environmental sustainability and rapid population growth, projected to exceed 11 billion by century’s end.

Plants and their pollinators form complex interaction networks. Within these networks, species differ widely in the number of species they interact with.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.

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.

To meet the rising demand for minerals driven by the global shift to clean energy technologies, ensuring responsible and resilient supply chains is critical. Minerals like cobalt, lithium, and nickel for batteries, neodymium and zinc for wind turbines, and indium for solar panels are essential.

Metal production is not only energy-intensive and a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but is also associated with other impacts affecting human health and ecosystems.

Loopbaan en solliciteren

The University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD researcher in the NWO-funded project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400-c. 1570)". This PhD project identifies the impact the Nassau dynasty had on urban space in the Low Countries and investigates…

Promovendi wordt aangeraden om in een vroeg stadium na te denken over hun loopbaanperspectieven. Vele gepromoveerden vinden werk binnen een academische of semi-academische omgeving.

Je promotieonderzoek uitleggen aan anderen kan best lastig zijn, zeker zonder te praten! Promovendus Annebelle Kok van het Instituut voor Biologie Leiden stond in de finale van de ‘Dance Your PhD’-wedstrijd van wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Science. ‘Je moet je eigen onderzoek goed begrijpen, wil je…

Studievoorlichting, Experience Day

Twee Amerikanen die jaren geleden verhuisden naar Nederland: Ned NcGowan en Guy Livingston. Beiden zijn PhD bij ACPA, zijn musici, geven les, componeren en bundelden hun krachten voor Peel Slowly and See.

Op donderdag 7 en vrijdag 8 december 2017 organiseerden het Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law van de Leidse rechtenfaculteit en het European University Institute in Florence een PhD workshop in Leiden.

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This thesis aimed to investigate core cross-linked polymeric micelles (CCPMs) and expand their potential for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs and co-factors.

This thesis examines silicon pore optics (SPO), a technology that exploits silicon wafers from the semiconductor industry to create extremely high quality X-ray optics, by studying its manufacturing process, applications, and prospects.

The studies described in this thesis deal with glycosidases, in particular alpha-galactosidases.

In het novembernummer van C2W werd Remco geinterviewd en vertelt hij over zijn twee passies, onderzoek en films produceren.

Natuurkundige Bernard van Heck is één van de zeven Nederlandse veelbelovende jonge wetenschappers die naar de 65e editie van de Lindau Ontmoetingsdagen met Nobelprijswinnaars gaat

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Iedereen is van harte welkom op de Leiden Science Family Day! Ons diverse programma is geschikt voor jong én oud; er is voor ieder wat wils.