Promotor: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promotor: Todor P. Stefanov

Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.

This thesis addresses the problem of designing performance and energy efficient embedded streaming systems, that is, systems which process a stream of input data coming from the environment and generate a stream of output data going into the environment.

Promotors: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. B. Sendhoff (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Promotores: H.S. Overkleeft, G.A. van der Marel, Co-Promotor: J.D.C. Codee

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

Multicopper oxidase, laccase, can efficiently reduce oxygen to water and are mostly used in the enzymatic biofuel cells.

With the conference circuit slowly reopening after Covid forced almost all academic interactions online, thousands of conference attendees descended on Brussels for Europe’s largest technology conference. eLaw’s annual sponsorship of one of the many CPDP conference panels brought a diverse range of…

Op de eerste dag van jouw nieuwe baan heb je zweethanden, ben je nerveus en onzeker, maar een paar maanden later zijn die gevoelens al weer verdwenen. Je hebt jouw nieuw rol eigen gemaakt en je bent nu onderdeel van de organisatie. Het proces dat daar naar toe leidt heet

A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

Op dinsdag 27 september 2016 promoveert Xinyi Gong op haar proefschrift: A Balanced Way for China's Inter-Regional Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. F.F.S. van der Tak (RUG)

Op 17 december promoveert Jin Wang. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Jin!

Bedrijven laten sollicitanten steeds vaker screenen om er zeker van te zijn dat zij later geen problemen opleveren. Criminoloog Elina van ’t Zand sprak met EditieNL en waarschuwt voor de gevolgen van die ontwikkeling: ‘Nederland is een echt screeningsland.’

De Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV) heeft jarenlang privacygevoelige informatie over burgers verzameld en verspreid. En dat is in strijd met de wet, zeggen deskundigen.

Bedrijven laten medewerkers die al in dienst zijn steeds vaker opnieuw screenen op veiligheidsrisico’s. Universitair docent Ard Barends sprak met het Financieele Dagblad over de herscreenings: ‘Door die te herhalen houden bedrijven de controle.’

Met een ernstig datalek op zijn website heeft het Centraal Orgaan opvang Asielzoekers (COA) honderden slachtoffers van mensenhandel in gevaar gebracht. Het COA plaatste vorige week een document met meldingen van mensenhandel op en rondom asielzoekerscentra in heel Nederland online dat veel privacygevoelige…

In the Schouwburgstraat, LUGO is currently redesigning the back-garden in order to increase biodiversity and make it a more beautiful space. Throughout October 2023 until March 2024, we will be making changes to the garden with our team of volunteers.

Synthetic hydrogels that mimic the natural extracellular matrix in the biophysical and biochemical cues it provides to cells are in high demand, however the cell phenotypes as they are observed in vivo in numerous cases have yet to be attained.

Onderzoeker Adam Lichtenheld heeft de 'ISA Distinguished Book Award' ontvangen voor het beste boek op het gebied van internationale politiek van etniciteit, nationalisme en migratie. De prijs werd uitgereikt door de International Studies Association (ISA).

In this study, we investigated the electrochemical behavior and surface evolution of Au(111) electrode under different conditions and electrochemical techniques, using a homemade electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope (EC-STM), revealing the intricate interplay between surface roughening, atom…

The ultimate aim of this project (initiated by the European Law Institute) is to design a framework that will enable the further development of coherent and functional rules for business rescue in Europe.

This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

Wees terughoudend met online surveilleren bij tentamens. Die oproep doen jongerenorganisaties in een brief aan mbo’s, hbo’s en universiteiten.

De Tweede Kamer wil dat websites waarop persoonlijke gegevens worden gedeeld, offline kunnen worden gehaald. Bart Schermer, hoogleraar Privacy & Cybercrime, sprak hierover met RTL Nieuws. ‘Als een provider niet meewerkt, kunnen ze aansprakelijk worden gesteld.’

In analogy to mathematical proofs, the goal of a proof system is for a prover to convince a verifier of the correctness of a claim.

Prof.dr. Bibi van den Berg is aangesloten bij de leergang Cybersecurity. Zij is hoogleraar Cybersecurity Governance en hoofd van de onderzoeksgroep Cybersecurity Governance.

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

Tijdens de jaarlijkse Wetenschappelijke Dag van de Sectie Farmacochemie van de KNCV in Weesp werd de Nederlandse Farmacochemieprijs uitgereikt aan Dr. Tom Wennekes, voor zijn proefschrift, getiteld: ‘Lipophilic iminosugars: synthesis and evaluation as inhibitors of glucosylceramide metabolism’.

Three of our researchers have been awarded a certificate for receiving enough downloads to be in the top 10% of papers in 2022

Op 30 mei was Gianclaudio Malgieri, universitair hoofddocent bij eLaw, spreker op de Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Washington D.C.

Minister Grapperhaus van Justitie en Veiligheid wil dat bij grootschalige dna-onderzoeken materiaal kan worden afgenomen van onschuldige burgers. Is dat een wenselijke ontwikkeling?

Uit onderzoek van RTL Nieuws blijkt dat door een fout bij Jeugdriagg de dossiers van kinderen met veelal ernstige psychische problemen zijn gelekt.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

In this thesis,

In this thesis, deep learning is studied from a statistical perspective. Convergence rates for the worst case risk bounds of neural network estimators are obtained in the classification, density estimation and linear regression model.

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

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.

Membrane fusion is a vital process in living organisms and is mediated by zipper-like proteins.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most pressing challenges that humanity faces in the coming decades.

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a major cereal crop that millions of subsistence farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) rely on. However, the scourging impact of the root parasitic weed Striga (Striga hermonthica, a.k.a. “witch-weed”) has remained a major constraint hampering the productivity of sorghum in…

This thesis involves three topics: benchmarking discrete optimization algorithms, empirical analyses of evolutionary computation, and automatic algorithm configuration.

One of the key limitations of the direct imaging of exoplanets at small angular separations are quasi-static speckles that originate from evolving non-common path aberrations (NCPA) to which the primary adaptive optics system is inherently blind. The main focus of this thesis is the development and…

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

In this thesis it is posed that the central object of preference discovery is a co-creative process in which the Other can be represented by a machine. It explores efficient methods to enhance introverted intuition using extraverted intuition's communication lines.