In de zaak Ferreira da Silva e Brito e.a./Estado portugues heeft het Hof van Justitie in het kader van overgang van onderneming expliciet de luchtvaartsector als kapitaalintensieve sector aangewezen. Hoe verhoudt het arrest zich tot het oordeel van het Gerechtshof Amsterdam over de overgang van de passagedivisie…

The Turin Humanities Programme of Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura has launched a call for applications for 4 post-doctoral fellowships focused on the topic: “Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650”. Deadline for submission: February 15, 2022.

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is offering two internships on a full-time basis in spring 2019.

Het Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis publiceert Nederlands- en Engelstalige artikelen op het gebied van de boekgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen in alle perioden (m.i.v. de middeleeuwen). Voor het 30e Jaarboek, de editie van 2023, verwelkomen zij in het bijzonder bijdragen binnen het thema ‘Technologie…

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

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.

This thesis describes the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA), which consists of two small robotic telescope designed to detect exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky.

Op 20 en 21 oktober 2016 organiseert de Universiteit Leiden een internationale conferentie onder de titel

The Datini Study Week will embrace a broad (but not generic) definition of social mobility to include not only the change from a well-defined social-economic condition to another equally well-defined (and measurable) one, but also the process through which individuals, families and social groups re-define…

The universities of Granada and Genova are organizing an international congress on 29-30 September 2022. The purpose is to think about the saliency of place-based forms of identity in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire, and to build new theoretical and methodological frameworks…

It is an established fact that the Standard Model has to be extended to explain the so-called Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) phenomena: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and neutrino flavour oscillations.

Jessica Barr and Barbara Zimbalist invite essays that examine any aspect of race and religion in medieval culture and society for a special issue on race and religion in the Middle Ages. Deadline for submission: 1 February 2021.

The University of Reading will host an online workshop on 27 April 2021. It is aimed at early career and postgraduate research historians focusing on the area of medieval finance. The deadline for submissions is: 19 February 2021.

The focus of this thesis is how stars like our Sun and planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth are formed.

CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from all disciplines. It is happy to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 (27-29 September 2021) and calls for the submission of extended abstracts.…

The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

The progressive loss and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). The onset and progression of PD can be triggered by multiple risk factors, for instance, genetic mutation, environmental exposure, and aging.

Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

In this thesis I describe the results of Pulsed Interleaved Excitation and Fluorescence (Cross) Correlation Spectroscopy (PIE-F(C)CS) combined with single-pair Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (spFRET) used to study dynamics in single nucleosomes, which depends on subtle differences in the length of…

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

Volume 72 of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art is dedicated to the relationship of art and death in the Low Countries and its diaspora, from premodern times to the present. The editors welcome contributions on works of art and architecture (paintings, prints, sculptures, objects of applied…

The Diploma in Medieval Studies entitled European Diploma for the study of Medieval Latin written sources, organised in the framework of the ERASMUS+ programme, was created at Louvain-la-Neuve in 1991. More than twenty European and extra-European universities are involved. The courses focus on methodology…

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.

Deepfakes zijn video’s die gemanipuleerd zijn om twee personen te verwisselen. Ze kunnen moeilijk te onderscheiden zijn van de originele video’s. In onze studie laten we zien dat mensen die meer complotdenken en mensen die meer gebruikmaken van social media beter zijn in het herkennen van deepfakes.

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

There is a need for alternative methods to replace, reduce and refine (3R) animal experimentation. Combining experimental data from high-throughput in vitro studies with in silico modeling is a promising approach to unravel the effect of chemicals on living cells and to gain a better understanding of…

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

Ben jij benieuwd naar de onderzoeksinteresses van jouw collega’s? Ben je op zoek naar nieuwe samenwerkingsmogelijkheden? Wil jij jouw laatste publicatie of (idee voor) een nieuw project willen delen? Stuur dan uiterlijk 15 januari 2018 een abstract voor het FGGA Research Symposium!

The RNA guided endonuclease based on the CRISPR/Cas system of Streptococcus pyogenus is a potent new tool for genome engineering in plants.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: G.J. Herczeg

The Datini Institute has launched a call for research papers for its 54th Study Week (14-18 May 2023). Deadline for submission: 10 April 2022.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

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

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Het Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN) – een samenwerkingsverband van de afdelingen Ondernemingsrecht en Bedrijfswetenschappen van de Leiden Law School – lanceert een call for proposals voor het boekproject met als thema Corporate and Organizational Decision-Making. Aanmeldingen zijn welkom…

Princeton University has announced that planning for its annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference is underway. The conference will be held on March 6, 2021 (via Zoom) with the following theme: “Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages.”

Ivo Wolsing (Leiden), Jacqueline Burek (George Mason University) and Lottie Thompson (Durham) are organizing a panel on Classical Learning in Medieval Europe at Leeds International Medieval Congress 2025. You are invited to submit an abstract by September 15.

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

This thesis examines the link between simple molecules and the underlying structure and chemistry within protoplanetary disks - the birthplaces of planets.

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

The first steps are made in personalised cancer vaccination strategies, which aim to induce a more specific immune response with fewer side effects. The activation of cytotoxic T cells is crucial for an effective immune response.

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

This conference investigates the specific role of mobility and materiality in the creation of (trans)regional sacred landscapes and cityscapes, taking a longue durée perspective. In particular, our aim is to address the role of mobility of objects, texts, and persons in the creation of sacred topographies.…