Galaxies form and evolve through close interaction with their surroundings. As a result, the heavy elements ('metals') that are synthesized in stars, are found both inside and outside galaxies.

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-Promotor: R. T. Dame

Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

Errors are everywhere, and mechanical failures are especially common: buckled grain silos and cracked support columns are, justly, seen as an issue to be avoided.

The European Council and the European Commission have a similar role in agenda setting. Both place issues on the EU agenda. However, these institutions have distinct designs. They have different political attributes (the European Council has considerably more political authority) and information-processing…

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

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

Quantum computers are a proposed fundamentally new type of computer. They aim to perform some computations much faster than previously possible by exploiting phenomena at the quantum scale, called superposition and entanglement.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

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…

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Hieronder vind je de antwoorden op een aantal veelgestelde vragen over toelating tot de klinische specialisaties van de Master Psychologie.

Kiemproject: Hoe kunnen metaforen bijdragen aan betere maatschappelijke betrokkenheid bij quantumwetenschap en -technologie, en welke factoren beïnvloeden de acceptatie of weerstand tegen metaforen bij zowel experts als leken?

Als student raakte universitair docent Berthe Jansen in de ban van de Van Manen-collectie: een verzameling vol Tibetaanse geschriften en voorwerpen. Een beurs van 1,5 miljoen euro maakt het nu mogelijk om er echt goed naar te gaan kijken. ‘Er is nog zoveel te doen en te ontdekken.’

Een overzicht van awards en prijzen die in 2021 zijn toegekend aan onze medewerkers en studenten, maar ook bijzondere benoemingen aan de Universiteit Leiden en andere instellingen.

De Faculteit der Archeologie is met meer dan 170 medewerkers het grootste academisch centrum voor Archeologie in continentaal Europa.

De onderzoeksprojecten binnen eLaw richten zich op baanbrekende en toekomstgerichte maatschappelijke uitdagingen op het snijvlak van recht en technologie.

Hoe kan pre-islamitische poëzie worden gebruikt als bron om de geschiedenis van Centraal-Arabië aan de vooravond van de islam te reconstrueren?

On Thursday the 17th of February, from 13h00-17h00, Chris Wickham (Oxford University) and Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham) will give two lectures at the Radboud University. This will be an in-person event, held at the Thomas van Aquinostraat 1, room 1.10.06 in Nijmegen. For those unable to…

Het Sport Data Center (SDC) bestaat uit de data science disciplines van de Universiteit Leiden en de TU Delft, in combinatie met sportwetenschappelijke takken van het Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science en het Sports Engineering Instituut van de TU Delft.

Alle belangrijke feiten en cijfers over de Universiteit Leiden, afkomstig uit het Jaarverslag 2024.

De wetenschappelijke onderbouwing van beleid wordt cruciaal geacht voor goed bestuur. Maar ondanks de overvloed aan beschikbare kennis uit onderzoek en evaluaties, weten we nog maar weinig over de daadwerkelijke invloed die dergelijke evidence heeft op overheidsbeleid. Het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Power…

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

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.

Publicaties Onderwijs- en organisatieontwikkeling

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

Het begrijpen van het veranderende landschap van extremisme in de 21e eeuw.

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

eLaw onderzoekt de rol van het recht in de informatiemaatschappij: hoe kan het recht bijdragen aan een goede werking van informatie- en communicatietechnologie, en het gebruik ervan door burgers, bedrijven en overheden?

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Nadine Akkerman heeft een subsidie van twee miljoen euro ontvangen van de European Research Council (ERC) voor onderzoek naar Engelse manuscripten uit de 16e en 17e eeuw. Akkerman: ‘Het werken met handgeschreven teksten en het ontrafelen van hun mysteries is een van mijn passies, en het is vooral de…

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

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The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

Quantum hardware comes with a different computing paradigm and new ways to tackle applications. Much effort has to be put into understanding how to leverage this technology to give real-world advantages in areas of interest for industries such as combinatorial optimization or machine learning.

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

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

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.

Despite the fact that gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most studied nanoparticles, there is still a necessity for new approaches allowing for effective protective coating to enable wider use of GNPs in biomedical applications.

Lipid formulations have demonstrated strong potential for nucleic acid delivery,particularly with the success of COVID-19 vaccines. Despite these advances, manyaspects of lipid formulations remain unclear.

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Curved single crystals provide variable, but well-defined surface structures.

This thesis revolves around the electronic spectroscopy of molecules in the laboratory and the search for the carriers of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs).

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…

Galaxies form and live inside dark matter haloes. As a consequence, they are exposed to the tidal fields generated by the surrounding matter distribution: this imprints a preferential direction to the galaxy shapes, which leads to a coherent alignment on physically close galaxies, called intrinsic a…

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

This thesis manuscript explores the use of video games as tools for conceptual exploration and academic research.

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…