Wat is de huidige staat van de democratie en hoe moeten we publieke steun voor democratie begrijpen? Het tweedaagse symposium ‘Support for Democracy: Measurement, Explanation, and Effects’

Dinsdag 2 december 2008 vindt het eerste Veritas-forum aan de Universiteit van Leiden plaats. Dit gebeurt rondom de presentatie van het nieuwe boek Geleerd en gelovig – 22 wetenschappers over hun leven, werk en God, onderredactie van prof. Cees Dekker. Hierin beschrijven 22 wetenschappers hoe zij tegen…

De Leidse hoogleraar Stochastiek Aad van der Vaart ontving op 14 september in Den Haag de NWO-Spinozapremie voor zijn baanbrekend onderzoek in de statistiek. OCW-staatssecretaris Sander Dekker en NWO-voorzitter Jos Engelen reikten in totaal vier premies uit.

Deze en afgelopen week kent het Border Criminologies Blog van de Faculty of Law van de University of Oxford een sterk Leids tintje. In de door hoogleraar rechtssociologie Maartje van der Woude georganiseerde themaweek rond het onderzoeksproject “Decision-making in Dutch Borderlands” worden de eerste…

Volgens het Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning (CEL) is universitair docent Carlijn Bergwerff de beste onderwijsvernieuwer van 2021. Zij verdient daarom de Henk Dekker Award voor de innovaties die zij binnen het vak Gesprekstechnieken 2 van de bachelor Pedagogische Wetenschappen…

Hoogleraar Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (International Relations and Diplomatic Practices) wordt benoemd tot minister van Staat. Dat maakte premier Rutte op 22 juni bekend.

Wat is het effect op het milieu van het 2016-verbod op gratis plastic tasjes? Industrieel ecoloog Stefano Cucurachi heeft een subsidie ontvangen van €75.000 van het LUF-SVM Projectsubsidie Fonds* om deze vraag te beantwoorden.

How do local, non-institutional ideas about end-of-life care influence professional palliative care and vice versa? These questions will be answered by medical anthropologists Annemarie Samuels and Natashe Lemos Dekker in the coming years.

Levende Talen en het Expertisecentrum mvt hebben in 2009 de Gerard Westhoff-Taaldidactiekprijs ingesteld voor de beste scriptie op het gebied van vreemdetalendidactiek (in brede zin, inclusief de didactiek van literatuur en cultuur), geschreven door studenten aan Nederlandse lerarenopleidingen. Voor…

Met het practicum van Antibiotica Gezocht! verkennen leerlingen de wereld van microbiologie, antibiotica en resistentie. Daarmee kunnen ze ook bijdragen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek van Universiteit Leiden en het Erasmus Medisch Centrum in Rotterdam.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

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.

This thesis is a collection of experimental attempts to enhance photoluminescence of fluorescent molecules and quantum dots with single gold nanorods (GNRs) and relevant applications.

This thesis is a collection of theoretical works aiming at adjusting quantum algorithms to the hardware of quantum computers.

This thesis presents the results of a study on the interfaces of insulating oxides with and without the insertion of a magnetic layer.

Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: J.B.F. Juurlink

This research delves into a region of space known as the interstellar medium (ISM), which is essentially the area between the stars filled with gas and dust.

Promotor: A. Kros

In het hoger onderwijs zijn open leermaterialen beschikbaar die iedereen mag gebruiken, maar ze worden niet zo veel gebruikt.

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

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

The bacterial cell wall is a nearly universal structure that offers protection and gives the cell its shape. However, environmental stressors, such as cell wall-targeting antibiotics and hyperosmotic conditions, can induce bacteria to shift to a wall-deficient state. It is unknown whether the lack of…

In the last decade, the redox interconversion between metal thiolate and disulfide compounds has been extensively investigated for copper, but not for other transition metal ions.

Mechanical metamaterials are carefully engineered materials whose properties are controlled by their structure, not by their composition, which allows using metamaterials to study and control physical effects in detail⁠.

Promotor: Jan van der Greef; Co-promotors: Mei Wang; Eduard van Wijk

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.

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O.W. van Gaans

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

Utilizing the polymeric platform of polypept(o)ides, this thesis describes synthesis and investigation of novel triblock copolymers to obtain carrier systems with multiple compartments for efficient siRNA delivery. Although the individual microstructure of nanoparticles differs depending on the polymeric…

In this dissertation iron-based homogeneous catalysts were synthesized, characterized and investigated for water oxidation activity.

Promotor: E. F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: C. Walsh

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

In the first part of this thesis we study the geometry of folding patterns.

Hydrocarbonylation of alkenes with carboxylic acids in synthesis of carboxylic acid anhydrides is relatively less explored. We herein present a study and optimization of a palladium-catalyzed hydrocarbonylation reaction of alkenes using carboxylic acids as the nucleophile, by which acid anhydrides can…

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.

In this thesis, we develop a novel technique called Optical Near-field Electron Microscopy (ONEM), which aims to combine the advantages of both optical and electron microscopy: the high resolution of electron microscopy and the low sample damage of optical microscopy.

Catalysis is of extreme relevance in the production of everyday materials and plays a central role in many aspects of our life.

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.

Op 13 januari 2022 verdedigde Pie Habimana het proefschrift 'Harmful Tax Competition in the East African Community'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. H. Vording en prof.dr. S.C.W. Douma (UvA).

Na het afronden van de bacheloropleiding volgen verreweg de meeste studenten de masteropleiding. De Universiteit Leiden stimuleert studenten om na hun bacheloropleiding door te gaan met de masteropleiding.

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

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