Promotor: Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma, Co-promotor: R.N. Frese

Membrane fusion is a vital process in living organisms and is mediated by zipper-like proteins.

Cultural biographies of persons, objects and 'natural' places in the Bronze Age of the Southern Netherlands, c. 2300-600 BC.

How the systematic destruction of valuables created value in Bronze Age Europe, c. 2300-500 BC

Nitrogen deposition does not only affect plant biodiversity, but also strongly affects the composition of the remainder of the food web, through the changes in plant composition. In an unprecedented analysis of population changes of butterfly and moth species, an international research team including…

The emergence of metalwork deposition during the Bronze Age in Northwest Europe, c. 2300-1500 BC

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

Stratigraphy, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Middle and Late Pleistocene Deposits.

Geology and Paleobotany of the Area surrounding the Archaeological Excavation at the Hazendonk River Dune (Western Netherlands).

Subproject of

Spaanse Water

This project investigates the causes of the major archaeological change in the period of 40.000-20.000 BC in South Africa.

What is the research question?

So you’ve taken a look at the accommodation on offer and the amount of rent you can expect to pay. But what other costs should you take into consideration?

Ongoing microwear analysis of the flint artefacts from the Funnelbeaker period suggests that flint had a pivotal role in the representation and structuration of the cosmological order of Funnelbeaker society.

The Great Rift Valley in Africa is a real treasure trove for discovering early human fossils. The fossils found in this part of Africa have determined our view of human evolution. But was the Great Rift Valley really the place where evolution took place or just a place where fossils are well preserved…

Using object assemblages to reconstruct activities, modes of deposition and abandonment at the Late Bronze Age dunnu of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Schilthuizen

To ensure things run as smoothly as possible, we expect students to be considerate and follow our well-established guidelines.

Large-scale excavations at Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany), a very rich Middle Palaeolithic site with excellent preservation of organic (faunal and floral) remains and lithics in fine-grained lake deposits, dating to about 125,000 years ago.

A Study of Middle Palaeolithic Riverside Settlements at Maastricht-Belvédère (The Netherlands).

PUMA aims at composing a geological map of the urban mine of Amsterdam for a selection of metals. Where are main deposits of copper, iron and aluminium located, when will they become available for secondary production, in what state and shape are they?

This thesis explores interfacial conductance and electric field-effects in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures.

As part of LUGO’s focus on responsible recycling of e-waste (electronic waste) we participated in the Funky Phone Challenge.

Professor David Fontijn is fascinated by the question why people destroy objects that are dear to them. It is a phenomenon that you find everywhere in the world, gaining particular strength in the European Bronze Age. Fontijn wrote a book on this ‘economy of destruction’, published by Routledge.

D. Fontijn, Quentin Bourgeois & Arjan Louwen (eds) (2012). This publication describes the history of “barrow landscape” near Echoput in Apeldoorn. Two burial mounds were examined and it became clear that our prehistoric predecessors carefully managed and maintained the open area for a long time, before…

In my group (the Aarts lab) we combine or structure materials, mostly in thin film form, in such a way that the hybrid has different and novel properties or functionalities.

PhD Defence

PhD Defence

The Middle Paleolithic site of Neumark was first discovered in the 1980’s by German geologist Matthias Thomae.

Abdolreza Alamdar Baghini defended his thesis on 5 December 2019.

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?

The Western Mediterranean is a key region to understand human dispersal events within and out of the African continent as well as for the eventual replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans during the Pleistocene. Central to any conclusive interpretation of archaeological and palaeoclimatic…

Aspergillus niger is an important industrial producer of organic acids and enzymes producing large amounts of spent fungal biomass.

The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices

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

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Corrie Bakels & Hans Kamermans (eds) (2009)

This thesis systematically analyzes the physical-chemistry of lipid-graphene interactions with the major objective of reconciliating the variety of results reported in the literature.

Volume 20 contains eight articles based on research of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

On 1 October 2019 the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial law hosted its 19th guest lecture starring Paul Sharma, managing director at Alvarez & Marsal and co-head of the European Financial Industry Regulatory Advisory Services practices.

Update : August 2017 Dr Willem van Haarlem

Lecture, What did you do last summer?