The radio sky harbours both galactic and extragalactic sources of arcminute- to degree-scale emission of various physical origins. To discover extragalactic diffuse emission in the Cosmic Web beyond galaxy clusters, one must image low–surface brightness structures amidst a sea of brighter compact fore-…

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. J. de Vries

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.

Lysosomal acid glucosylceramidase (GBA1) is a lysosomal enzyme that degrades glucolipids with its main substrate being glucosylceramide (GlcCer). Defects in the GBA1 gene lead to glycosphingolipidosis Gaucher disease (GD), in which the hydrolysis of GlcCer is impaired and therefore, it accumulates in…

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

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

In this thesis we will explore the use of fuzzy systems theory for applications in bioinformatics.

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.

A dense region of a gaseous and dusty cloud collapses to form a protostar surrounded by a disk and an envelope. This thesis uses both observations and models to study physical and chemical conditions of these protostellar systems which are likely where planets start to form.

This article 'Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership' assesses the role, influence and core aspects of the EU High Representatives’ (HR/VPs) “political leadership” in the context…

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

Wij dagen studenten uit hun talenten verder te ontwikkelen. Binnen de universiteit en opleiding zijn hier verschillende mogelijkheden voor, waaronder uitwisseling via het EMPA-netwerk, Master Honours Classes & Challenges en het Leiden Leadership Programme.

Farmacie is een uitdagende studie die als intensief wordt ervaren. Heb jij naast je studie echter nog tijd om je verder te ontwikkelen? Dan is het Honoursonderwijs van de Universiteit Leiden wellicht iets voor jou.

Wij dagen studenten uit hun talenten verder te ontwikkelen. Binnen de universiteit en opleiding zijn hier verschillende mogelijkheden voor, waaronder uitwisseling via het EMPA-netwerk, Master Honours Classes & Challenges en het Leiden Leadership Programme.

Wij dagen studenten uit hun talenten verder te ontwikkelen. Binnen de universiteit en opleiding zijn hier verschillende mogelijkheden voor, waaronder uitwisseling via het EMPA-netwerk, Leiden Leadership Programme en Master Honours Classes & Challenges.

This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

Hoe verwerken we taal en spraak? Hoe voegen we de informatie op verschillende niveaus – intonatie, zinsstructuur, betekenis, toon, woorden, klanken - samen? Hoe staat de informatie op het ene niveau in verband met informatie op een ander niveau?

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…

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

Heterogeneous catalyzed processes are highly significant to the chemical industry. Dissociative chemisorption (DC) of molecules on surfaces is always considered as a step with a high degree of rate control for heterogeneous catalysis.

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, which holds the potential to simulate complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical numerical methods.Despite recent formidable advancements in quantum hardware, constructing a quantum computer capable of performing useful calculations remains challenging.In…

In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.

In this Ph.D. thesis we study the interaction of low energy electrons with thin materials, namely layered materials (graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, molybdenum disulfide) and organic films. At these low energies the quantum mechanical wavelength of the electron wave function is in the order of a…

Kunnen we van quantum-verrassingen quantum toepassingen maken? Kunnen we het leven onderzoeken en opbouwen vanuit de nano-schaal?

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data

This multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

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.

How were the Russians, under early modern conditions, able to incorporate this distant, undeveloped and, because frequent nomadic attacks, dangerous territory? And what role did the Kolyvan-Voskresensk plants play in this process?

This thesis describes the structural and biochemical characterization of the β-lactamase BlaC from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and the Alr and YlmE proteins from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).Mtb is the main cause of tuberculosis.

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In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.