Tijdens de opening van het academisch jaar wordt traditiegetrouw de LUS Onderwijsprijs uitgereikt aan de beste docent op de universiteit. Maak kennis met de genomineerden. Deze week: Florian Schneider.

Florian Schneider onderzoekt wat mensen doen met technologie en wat technologie doet met mensen. En dan vooral in China.

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

The main goal of this thesis is to achieve advanced control of binding properties in bis-pyrrolic and macrocyclic pyrrolic receptors by light.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn & Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

GLOBOX is a spatially differentiated multimedia fate, exposure and effect model. It is used for the calculation of spatially differentiated LCA characterisation factors on a global scale.

Thijs Beumers, Ruben de Graaff, Lynette Janssen en Dorine Verheij van de vakgroep Coherent Privaatrecht zullen de komende tijd voor hun onderzoek in het buitenland verblijven. Zij vertellen over het onderzoek dat zij zullen doen in het buitenland.

Op 24 juni 2021 verdedigde Jing Zhang zijn proefschrift 'The Rationale of Publicity in the Law of Corporeal Movables and Claims'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. H.J. Snijders en dr. J.A. van der Weide.

Lezing

Rogier Creemers is universitair docent Moderne Chinese Studies. Waar hij in zijn onderwijs graag de uitdaging zoekt, probeert hij in zijn vrije tijd juist terug naar de basics te gaan en is hij liever met zijn handen bezig.

Steeds meer burgers in Azië hebben behoefte om een sterke eigen identiteit te vormen. Dat komt onder meer door mondialisering en het besef dat Aziatische landen zoals China en India uitgroeien tot nieuwe wereldmachten. Hoogleraar Hilde De Weerdt onderzoekt hoe in China politieke ideeën en nationale…

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

Cardiovascular diseases are among the most frequent causes of death in the world. The main underlying pathology of cardiovascular diseases is the development of atherosclerosis in the medium and large-sized arteries.

The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.

The research described in this thesis centered on retaining exo-β-glucosidases implicated in health and disease, in particular the human inherited lysosomal storage disorder, Gaucher disease (GD).

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile

Carbon dioxide capture and utilization technologies are necessary to create a truly circular economy. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formate is an appealing carbon utilization method as it can be performed at room temperature and pressure, it only requires two electrons, and it has…

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-Promotor: L.W. Chatrou

The overall theme of this thesis is to complement the electrochemical data acquired in fuel cell research with in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS).

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.T.F. den Hollander

Promotor: J. Zaanen

Promotor: Prof.dr. E Gittenberger, Co-Promotores: C.H.J.M. Fransen, B.W. Hoeksema

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck

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

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.

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

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium which can form biofilms, increasing its resistance against antibiotics and the host immune system. Polysaccharides are an integral part of this biofilm, one of these polysaccharides is called Psl. PslG is a glycosidase, able to cleave this polysaccharide,…

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.

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.

Vitamin A or retinol is essential in embryonic development, the visual cycle and the immune system.

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

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

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

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

Promotor: A. Kros

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

Dissolving microneedles are a subgroup of microneedle types that completely dissolve within the skin. During this dissolving process the vaccine, stored in the needle matrix, is released into the skin.

Plastics have become an integral part of modern society due to their versatility and durability.

Oratie

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.

Voordrachten in het kader van het onderzoeksproject Zelfredzaamheid en sociale bescherming over de levenscyclus (aug. 2017 – dec. 2023).