Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

Promotor: J.W. van Holten

Promotor: I. A. G. Snellen, Co-promotor: M. A. Kenworthy

Promotor: J. Aarts

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.J.J. Groenen

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: R. Fernandez

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

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Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.

The energy transition is a complex transformation process that is not only about technology -moving towards renewable energy sources-, but even more so about societal and institutional change. The energy transition requires and provides opportunities for actors to take on new roles.

Triplet superconductivity refers to a condensate of equal-spin Cooper pairs (pairs of electrons with equal spin).

Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP) is the largest knowledge centre in the Netherlands in the field of life sciences & health and is also highly regarded internationally. The clustering of high-quality education, research, care and business attract students, scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the…

Promotor: C.W.J. Beenakker, Co-promotor: M.T. Wimmer

This research investigates the impact of socioeconomic developments on the physical condition of medieval populations in Holland and Zeeland between AD 1000 and 1600 through the analysis of human skeletal remains from three archaeological sites.

SEAtrans: an interdisciplinary research project that aims at studying the dynamics and processes of transitions in society-nature interactions in Southeast Asian societies.

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

PhD defence

Promotor: W. T. F. den Hollander, F. H. J. Redig

As early as 2030, batteries in electric vehicles could fully meet the need for short-term electricity storage around the world. By connecting them to the power grid they can provide their stored energy, improving energy security and enabling renewable technologies in cleaning the grid.

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

A deceptively simple, complicated paper

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: B.P. Tighe

The dissociative chemisorption of a molecule on a transition metal surface represents a rate-limiting step in many heterogeneously catalyzed processes, whereby most chemicals are made. In spite of the importance of this reaction, an accurate first principles approach to modeling it does not yet exist.…

Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen

Promotor: J. Zaanen

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Prof.dr. H.C. Gerritsen

This thesis describes the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA), which consists of two small robotic telescope designed to detect exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky.

De minor Economie en Beleid van de Universiteit Leiden leert je oplossingen te vinden voor problemen waar het Nederlandse openbaar bestuur elke dag aan werkt.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

What does digitalisation mean for the labour market, the business sector and society in general? Reijer Passchier, Assistant Professor Leiden Law School and Professor of Digitalisation and the Democratic Constitutional State at the Open University, spoke at a meeting of the Social and Economic Council…

A full overview of MCBIM PhD theses.

“Transitional justice” is a field of practice, policy and study that focuses on the ways that societies respond to legacies of large-scale atrocities though tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, and other mechanisms.

The research described in this thesis focused on the preparation of S/N functionalized carbene ligands and their transition metal complexes, and the exploration of their application as electrocatalysts for proton reduction.

Metals surfaces form a group of effective catalysts for the reaction of small molecules such as hydrogen (H2).

How do academics develop into novel researcher roles alongside current teacher roles in the context of new universities in transition?

What is the state of access to justice in real property grievances in today’s Libya, and how should it be improved?

The overall aim of the project is to investigate interests and their development over time in a daily life context, with particular attention for the transition from late secondary to post secondary education, and from late post secondary education to early career.

Materials are either gas, liquid or solid, based on how their molecules respond to temperature and pressure. But what if the building blocks are self-spinning particles instead of ordinary molecules? Theoretical physicists found out what determines the phase of those artificial materials. Publication…

These three repors are part of a research project that assesses how military interventions can best prepare the ground for an effective long-term counter-terrorism policy. Three different cases have been studied, and they have each provided the input for the policy relevant recommendations that are…

In December 2014, Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs with the Australian National University’s Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, commenced a research project to assess how (temporary) military interventions can best prepare…

This thesis focuses on the synthesis, characterization and performance towards CO2 electroreduction of mono and bi-metallic particles based on p-block metals

Governance and Global Affairs, Social and Behavioural Sciences

Majorana meets a mermaid

Robert Pee, William Michael Schmidli (Eds.) This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration’s Cold War foreign policy.

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

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

The Dutch biotech spin-off In Ovo is the first company to develop a large-scale solution for determining the sex of a chick while it is still in the egg. This fast and cheap technique can be applied mechanically at hatcheries, which was not possible before.