Can the venom of snakes, scorpions and other animals be sources of new antibiotics?

This master’s programme focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of armed conflict between states and within states. In addition, we explore whether and how local, national and international actors and institutions can forge cooperation, prevent political and armed conflict from emerging,…

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

Promotor: H.P. Spaink, A.H. Meijer Co-promotor: R. Marin-Juez

While Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work.

'In Perspective' is the quarterly publication of the Faculty of Humanities in which we bundle some of our most high-profile stories. In Perspective is printed in limited quantities (currently only available in Dutch), spread amongst relations and partners and offered on coffeetables within our buildings.…

How do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? What might 'freedom' mean to those who do not resist captivity engendered by borders? Focusing on the predicaments of a double-minority, Radhika Gupta examines…

Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas Co-Supervisor: R. Offringa

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

Leiden University will be taking part in the 3 October parade. Are you coming to watch?

Can we exploit the cell death machinery of the host to develop new host-directed anti-TB treatments?

This month Ali Shobeiri's monograph, Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography came out at Leiden University Press.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancer in males.

What are the mysteries behind soft condensed matter?

How do mycobacteria subvert the defenses of host immune cells?

Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency.

On 26 November 1940 Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa (1894-1980) gave his now famous protest speech.

Mr. Ade Jaya Suryani defended his thesis on 28 January 2021

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

The Graduate School of Science has a centuries-old tradition in cutting edge education and research in science.

Can animal venoms yield novel antimicrobial peptides?

This thesis describes biochemical investigations of glucocerebrosidase (GBA), the lysosomal β- glucosidase that is deficient in Gaucher disease (GD).

Xinrong Ma defended her thesis on 13 February 2018

Promotor: J. Aarts

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Un)timely Crises explores how ‘crisis’—as a narrative, concept, grammar, and experience—structures time and space. This collectively written volume extends Bakhtin’s ‘chronotope’ to challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal governmentality. The book explores how contemporary crises can trigger…

Evolution & Biodiversity is one of the four research themes of the Institute of Biology Leiden.

Control of infectious diseases poses continuous challenges for human health.

Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm

Nadeera Seneviratne defended her thesis on 21 January 2016.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Memelink

Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common type of breast cancer.

The department of World Archaeology combines research and education about regions all over the world, from Human Origins to the Middle Ages, and from Europe, to Asia, Africa and the America’s. That broad range in time and space makes the department a dynamic pluriform community with many different approaches,…

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, , Co-Promotor: Young Hae Choi

Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resista…

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, J. Neefjes, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

Medical Biochemistry is a section of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. The section is headed by Prof. Dr. Hans Aerts.

A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia

The transition from fossil fuels and the practical changes that this entails make many demands on citizens. Emma ter Mors, a psychologist and lecturer at Leiden University, is researching the factors that contribute to public perception and acceptance of new energy technologies.

Police killed Eric Garner 9 years ago (‘I can’t breathe’) when he resisted a search. Now everyone will consent to stops and searches. Law Professor and author Josephine Ross looks to feminism: what police call consent, feminists would call submission. During the lecture on Wednesday 31 May, Josephine…

What are the genes and molecular mechanisms involved in bacteria-mediated plant drought tolerance?

Unraveling the immune-suppressive actions of drugs like prednisone.

The one-year master in South Asian Studies, a specialisation of Leiden University’s master in Asian Studies, offers a large and varied selection of subjects and the freedom to choose the areas on which you will focus.

Plant Sciences' contribution to the Development & Disease research theme is to unravel the processes that allow plants to adapt to changing abiotic and biotic environmental conditions or stresses, with the aim to contribute to the sustainable production of food, flowers and bio-based products using…

The one-year master in Southeast Asian Studies, a specialisation of Leiden University’s master in Asian Studies, offers a large and varied selection of subjects and the freedom to choose the areas on which you will focus.

PhD defence