Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

Pulsars were first discovered in 1967 and since then the population has grown and expanded over several wavelengths.

Promotores: K.J. Batenburg, B. Koren

The rapid advances in imaging technology enable to see inside the body with ever increasing detail.

In Shimmering Images, Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change.

What is the origin of solar systems?

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An international team led by Leiden astronomers has discovered why the two stars of binary star DI Herculis rotate so strangely around one another, which once even proved problematic for Einstein's theory of relativity. Their findings were published in Nature.

This specialisation focuses on two important trends in health care: early diagnosis and developing the most targeted patient-specific treatment possible with the shortest possible recovery time and minimal side effects.

On the basis of the characteristic aspects of a picture, certain computers can tell us what the picture is showing. They can learn this in the same way that young children are able to learn to recognize images. Further improving these techniques opens the way to a whole range of new applications. Biology…

To study how planetary systems come into existence we study much younger systems still in formation.

On the basis of the characteristic aspects of a picture, certain computers can tell us what the picture is showing. They can learn this in the same way that young children are able to learn to recognize images. Further improving these techniques opens the way to a whole range of new applications. Biology…

Promotor: M.A.G.J. Orrit

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, P.Parent

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Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: K.J. Batenburg

PLATO is a centre for research and development in education and training. 4 areas of expertise and 4 methods.

In this project we develop algorithms to automatically detect a particular type of archaeological sites in satellite images of the Alps.

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Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a tomographic 3D imaging technique used for specimens in the millimetre scale.

This thesis focuses on the study of transient and variable radio sources in the universe.

Zebrafish is an excellent model organism for studying various human diseases. Due to opaqueness of the adult phase, in vivo studies are restricted to early embryonic stages. This raises the need for rapid sensitive and non-invasive in vivo imaging methods to follow developmental processes, not only…

From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy.

In this research group, led by Dr. Joost Beltman, the aim is to employ mathematical and computational dynamical modelling approaches in order to quantitatively and mechanistically understand the dynamical behaviour and regulation of intracellular networks of genes, proteins and metabolites as well as…

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One of the ways of understanding another culture better is to examine what people experience when they read a text, or look at an image. Leiden experts have a lot of knowledge in this field, for example on culture in ancient Japan.

Binary systems, consists of five electronic compositions, in each of which Richard Barrett worked with a specially made recording from an improvising instrumentalist to produce a new kind of compositional collaboration: Daryl Buckley (electric lap steel guitar), Ivana Grahovac (cello), Lori Freedman…

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.

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

This thesis investigates the relations between metabolism and anatomy through the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Promotor: Prof.dr. V. Icke, Co-Promotor: T.I. Madura

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, A. Plaat, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

Science

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

The next generation of high-contrast imaging instruments on space-based observatories requires sophisticated wavefront sensing and control in addition to a high-performance coronagraph.

The aim of this project is to study what makes an act or form of violence a specifically political reality.

Promotor: B. van de Water, Co-Promotores: J.H.N. Meerman, F.J. Verbeek

How do documentary moving images and fictional narratives involve and evolve each other?

Promotor: C.U. Keller, Co-Promotor: F. Snik

This project aims to study the Aesopian fable from 1500 to the present day in its complex relationship between text, illustration and education, adopting a broad, transnational perspective.

Human and animal cells are very complex: very different chemical processes are going on at the same time, but they are separated from each other because the cells are divided in compartments. These compartments may also have a profound effect on the potential efficacy of therapeutics, because the drug…

We have studied shape with a particular focus on the zebrafish model system. The shape is an essential appearance of the phenotype of a biological specimen and it can be used to read out a current state or response or to study gene expression.

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.

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655.

Promotores: S.F. Portegies Zwart, E. M. Rossi

In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot, Co-Promotor: A. Alia

A technique originally developed for satellite imaging can now be used to recover pictographic texts from underneath the surface of a five hundred year old Mexican manuscript.

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.