On October 31st, Margarita Gulian succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Margarita on this great result.

PhD Defence

In this research project child language phonology is studied from the perspective of a psycholinguistic speech-production model and this model is in turn studied from the perspective of developmental phonology.

Nadine Akkerman has received a subsidy of two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into 16th and 17th century English manuscripts. Akkerman: ‘Working with handwritten texts and unravelling their mysteries is one of my passions, and it’s especially rewarding when this work…

The Data Science Research Programme at Leiden University combines data science with PhD projects in a wide range of disciplines. The programme has been running for over two years, and is producing the first astonishing results. A number of PhD candidates talk about their experiences and research bel…

PhD Defence

How does the cluster bootstrap procedure in combination with various types of linear models perform in the analysis of longitudinal data, compared to other methods.

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

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

PhD Defence

When you are driving a car, you expect the software hidden under the dashboard to function properly. If a bug in the software suddenly causes the brakes to malfunction, you are in big trouble. Alfons Laarman studies how we can efficiently guarantee that software is free from errors, an issue that requires…

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Jelke Bethlehem (Leiden University, Institute of Political Science) gives an overview of many aspects of polls: questionnaire design, sample selection, estimation, margins of error, nonresponse and weighting. As such, it is useful both for readers who want to gain a better understanding of the ins and…

Statistical distributions in LCA and converting between different representations of these distributions.

Since the early 1990s, one can isolate the optical signal of a single molecule and single-molecule spectroscopy has quickly grown into an important research field.

Can we build a biosensor to detect neuroblastoma markers in urine using the chemotaxis system in E. coli?

Lecture

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

In this PhD-thesis several new and existing data science application are described that are particularly focused on applications for tax administrations.

Julia Cramer is the winner of NWO's Minerva Prize for 2017. Cramer will receive the prize for her research in the field of quantum science and technology.

PhD Defence

When psychologists repeated a hundred studies in 2015, their results differed in two-thirds of the studies. ‘Research into research is not a luxury but a necessity,’ says Professor of Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research Mark de Rooij. ‘My aim is to improve psychological research, to think…

The master's specialisation School Psychology consists of three main parts: the mandatory courses, the thesis and the internship/extra electives.

As an alternative to the diving board shaped force sensor, we are now developing a magnetically levitated small superconducting particle – or ‘Lead Zeppelin'' – as our mechanical resonator. We explore routes towards detection of gravity between small objects.

CRANK is a novel suite for automated macromolecular structure solution and uses recently developed programs for substructure detection, refinement, and phasing.

In this thesis chemical and physical processes in the ice mantles on interstellar dust grains are studied.

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

Research at the SBC group is comprised of the following research themes:

Tom O’Brien is our Leiden Institute of Physics' nominee for the C.J. Kok Jury Award 2019.

Article in the journal Irish Political Studies discussing the challenge of aggregating opinion polls and presenting a method to better model major sudden political and societal events. This can can enhance opinion poll reporting in the media.

This thesis covers various applications of topology in condensed matter physics and quantum information.

We investigate the physics and design of mechanical metamaterial, intricately sculpted materials with properties set by their architecture.

A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.

How is Pol θ responsible for T-DNA integration, and how do other DNA double-strand break repair pathways interact with Pol θ? How may we manipulate T-DNA integration to stimulate error-free integration at a predetermined genomic site?

What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?

The research group ‘Quantum and Society’ explores the boundary between quantum technology and science communication.

PhD Defence

PhD Defence

Are you interested in developments in society, curious about human behaviour and do you closely follow current affairs? Then the bachelor’s programme Criminologie is for you

The surface and the edges of graphene are expected to provide higher sensitivity and specificity in detecting and characterizing single molecules. However fundamental physical limits exist in reaching an ultimate precision in detecting the dynamics of chemical and biological systems. The research in…

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

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

Detecting cross-linguistic Syntactic Differences Automatically

Lecture

Lecture, Mini Symposium

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

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