There are many interpretations of quantum mechanics, and ultimately experiments are needed to verify or falsify these interpretations.

Promotors: W. Jiskoot; G.J. Witkamp, Co-promotor: M.R. Nejadnik

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

Tracing the evolution of the molecular gas content in galaxies is critical for a complete understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, as it provides the direct fuel for star formation. Studies of high-redshift (z>1) molecular gas reservoirs, most commonly traced by carbon monoxide (CO), have seen…

Phosphorylation affects all four major biomolecules – proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids – and plays a pivotal role in the most fundamental cellular functions.

Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.

Streptomyces are filamentous bacteria that produce more than two-thirds of known antibiotics.

The ability to count is a property not often attributed to materials, despite the abundance of memory in materials. Regardless of how a material stores information, it is often difficult to retrieve exactly ‘what’ a material remembers.

All crested and marbled newts (the genus Triturus) suffer from an unusual genetic abnormality, called a balanced lethal system, that kills exactly half of their offspring. How can a trait so disadvantageous have survived millions of years of natural selection?

Promotor: F. Arbab

This thesis applies data mining in commercial settings in the telecommunications industry.

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

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

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: L.P. van Ofwegen; B.W. Hoeksema

Promotor: A. Kros

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

The electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an essential half-reaction for the utilization of hydrogen as a sustainable fuel, via the conversion of hydrogen to electrons and protons facilitated by the ORR. In the most common fuel cells, the ORR is requires high loadings of non-abundant platinum…

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

Promotor: J. van der Greef, T. Hankemeier; Co-promotor: H.A. van Wietmarschen

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

In my research, I used a comparative wood anatomical approach to address wood evolution of the (largely) tropical flowering plant families Apocynaceae and Sapotaceae.

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

A remarkable population of short period transiting rocky exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures on the order of 2,000 K has recently been discovered.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra

Three major cosmology-focused missions are planned for the next decade: the Euclid space telescope, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by a dysregulated host response to infection, it is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and with a high financial burden on global healthcare systems. Bacterial infections are the primary cause of sepsis, but the growing prevalence of antimicrobial…

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a tomographic 3D imaging technique used for specimens in the millimetre scale.

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

This dissertation presents the results of the importance of creativity for ICT-students of Dutch universities of applied sciences (in Dutch: hogescholen), and the functioning of training courses that aim to promote creative abilities is highlighted.

Streptomyces present a valuable platform for natural product discovery. Lugdunomycin is a novel angucycline-derived polyketide from Streptomyces sp QL37, with unprecedented skeleton and antimicrobial activity.

The redox-conversion reaction of metal-disulfide and metal-thiolate complexes are important, as they may shed light on electron-transfer reactions that often occur in Nature.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

Thermodynamics is one of the founding scientific pillars that has helped us better understand heat engines, biology, ecosystems, and even black holes. While it fundamentally describes large systems by examining the bulk behavior of their constituents, it is anchored in the statistical equivalence of…

Religion, Philosophy, and the Pre-modern World

De Romeinse overheersers in Egypte in de eerste vijfhonderd jaar na Christus waren zeer kieskeurig in wat zij importeerden uit Noord-Afrika: objecten van kalk- en zandsteen gingen nooit op transport naar Rome, van gekleurde en harde stenen juist wel. Deze voorwerpen riepen weliswaar allerlei noties…

Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).

De komst van landbouw in west Nederland blijkt geen invasie maar eerder een langzame ontwikkeling van duizenden jaren, zo blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek waar Leidse archeologen bij betrokken waren. Buitenstaanders van boerengemeenschappen (vaak vrouwen) voegden zich bij lokale jager-verzamelaar groepen…

uman skin equivalents (HSEs) are in vitro 3D-skin models that mimic many aspects of the native human skin (NHS) and can be a valuable tool.

Het Netwerk antieke wereld (Ancient Worlds Network) bestaat uit medewerkers en masterstudenten binnen het LIAS die onderzoek doen naar de antieke wereld in het Middellandse Zeegebied en het Nabije-Oosten.

Many galaxy clusters exhibit bright diffuse radio emission that traces the underlying structure of the intracluster medium (ICM).

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Na een succesvol afgeronde masteropleiding ontvang je de titel Master of Arts (MA).