A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: H.J. Hoogeboom

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

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

PhD Defence

The results of the investigations by citizens are used in an innovative research project that investigates the potential of machine learning and automated detection in archaeology.

How do genetic and environmental factors make us vulnerable to depression?

What are the social and neural mechanisms that contribute to fluctuations in self-esteem in healthy adolescents and adolescents with depression?

The recent terrorist attacks in Europe are presumably not just acts committed by individuals, but acts facilitated by larger jihadist networks. But how do such networks operate? Understanding their modus operandi can be useful knowledge to counter terrorist threats.

This dissertation studies how domestic regulatory agencies and the officials representing them are influenced by and deal with the increasingly complex transnational environments in which they have come to operate. Based on (social) network analysis it demonstrates how decisions of domestic agencies…

How do we address the pressing challenges posed by large-scale networks?

Vocal learning is a trait shared by songbirds and humans. It is also a trait that is restricted by the brain rather than by a species' vocal apparatus. In this dissertation, functional MRI is employed in both species in order to explore potential common neural mechanisms underlying the ability to develop…

How do dissociative states affect the ability to suppress emotional distraction (in the context of a working memory task) in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder?

We study the structure, dynamics and physics of complex networks emerging from the intricate interconnectedness of the constituents of large systems.

To argue that people can control the relative contributions of goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes to decision-making and action selection.

The Leiden Complex Networks Network (LCN2) aims at bringing together scientists from different disciplines, based on a common interest in both theoretical models and empirical analyses of networks and graphs.

The LLC is a network organisation with various national and international partners in academia and public, private and social organisations.

The Faculty of Archaeology

Modelling supra-regional communities in the early 3rd Millennium BC

For many system in statistical physics the microcanonical and canonical ensemble are equivalent in the thermodynamic limit, but not for all.

How can citizen science be used to communicate and provide data for social network analysis?

The ‘Food citizens?’ project is assisted by an advisory board, consisting of academics and stakeholders.

Below you can find lists of Leiden-based and international organizations working on Central Asia, and an overview of useful resources on Central Asia.

This interdisciplinary community aims to facilitate tight collaboration between all faculties of Leiden University on the subject of Artificial Intelligence. The Future of AI is Bright!

LeiCenSAA is dedicated to the study of Ancient Arabia and the sharing of knowledge and expertise on this topic. Thefore it aims to collaborate closely with other research in the field.

The Leiden University Sustainability Network is the platform for Leiden University staff to combine their efforts and support each other in making our university more sustainable.

The LGBT+ Network offers a platform for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer staff and students at Leiden University.

This dissertation consists of two parts, with the common theme "Exploration on and of Networks".

Both within Leiden University and in the external partner universities PhD-research is conducted which is directly or indirectly related to regional integration.

The focus of this programme is the inter-community social relationships and transformations of island networks in the Lesser Antilles across the historical divide.

Below you can find an overview of our network.

How and under what conditions Dutch primary school principals' managerial networking activities affect the performance of their school

Which adolescents are more at risk of developing social anxiety disorder later in life?

LIAS researchers working in the field of linguistics hold dual appointments in LIAS and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

In this thesis, we extend the concept of null models as canonical ensembles of multi-graphs with given constraints and present new metrics able to characterize real-world layered systems based on their correlation patterns.

Leiden University is a member of several international research and education networks.

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

The Global Abolitionisms Network is an international network of scholars working on antislavery activism and abolitionism.

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

The active learning network joins together everyone interested in the subject to move the theme further within Leiden University. The SALTSWAT pilot program researches the ways forward for Leiden University.

The Young Alumni Network is specifically for young alumni (35 years and younger) living in the Netherlands, who have recently graduated and are at the start of their career. As a young alumnus you have different needs than when you are settled in your career path or when your career is drawing to a…

The D&I Expertise Office is in close contact with various student and staff networks regarding diversity and inclusion.

The Global Abolitionisms Network has been established to link scholars from across the world and across disciplines who are working on antislavery activism and abolitionism.

The State & Society network critically interrogates the assumption that state and society are a priori conceptual and empirical objects.

Leiden University actively seeks to prepare students for the labour market and wants to help young alumni at the start of their careers. For this we like to use the knowledge and experience of Leiden alumni. To bring these students and young alumni who have questions about their career in contact with…