Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Smets, M. Stech

This thesis consists of two main parts. The first part (Chapters 2 and 3) deals with a class of Markov process called Quasi-Skipfree (QSF) processes.

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron, Co-Promotor: M.T.M. Emmerich

Studenten in het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) kunnen vanaf collegejaar 2017 met behulp van een hologram – door middel van mixed reality - de anatomie en bewegingen van hun eigen enkel tot in detail onderzoeken.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

This thesis takes steps toward understanding the interaction between gas-phase and solid-state molecules in star- and planet-forming regions.

Het Leiden Law Methods Portal gaat een nieuwe fase in! De afgelopen maanden hebben diverse collega's teksten aangeleverd voor het (Engelstalige) portal dat gericht is op het inzichtelijk maken van de verschillende fasen van empirisch juridisch en rechtssociologisch onderzoek en in het bijzonder op het…

Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College The Hague

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

How can data analytics be used as a research method in the field of legal research? This question was addressed during the Research Lab Legal Data Science on 23 September, 2016.

Politicoloog Femke Bakker (Universiteit Leiden) heeft de Jean Blondel PhD Prize 2019 gewonnen. Haar ‘Hawks and Doves: Democratic Peace Theory Revisited’ is volgens het European Consortium voor Political Research (ECPR) het beste politicologische proefschrift van afgelopen jaar.

De Leidse neuropsychologe Janice Sandjojo heeft de prijs voor de beste wetenschappelijke presentatie gewonnen op het jaarlijkse congres van de ‘Association for Researchers in Psychology and Health’ (ARPH).

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Het nieuwe Leiden Law Methods Portal is live. Het portal dient als een eerste aanknopingspunt voorJuridische onderzoekers kunnen hier terecht voor advies en stimuleert en faciliteert empirisch juridisch en rechtssociologisch onderzoek.

11 november jl. verdedigde Carina Schott, onderzoeker en docent aan het Instituut Bestuurskunde, haar proefschrift: Playing a role ‐ but which one? How public service motivation and professionalism affect decision‐making in dilemma situations.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.

Bart Barendregt krijgt een Vici beurs Voor zijn onderzoeksproject ‘Eén tussen de Nullen, een Antropologie van Artificial Intelligence in Islam’.

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

The explosive radiation and diversification of the advanced snakes (superfamily Colubroidea) was associated with changes in all aspects of the shared venom system. Morphological changes included the partitioning of the mixed ancestral glands into two discrete glands devoted for production of venom ormucous…

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, African Studies Centre Leiden

De Leidse Rechtenfaculteit en de Universiteit van Stirling gaan gezamenlijk onderzoek doen naar de belangrijkste uitdagingen voor beleid en praktijk met betrekking tot de vergaande sociale uitsluiting van migrantengroepen.

In astronomy, the interpration of observations and measurements plays a crucial role: we rely purely and fundamentally on the information that reaches us as observers. And 80% of all matter in the universe is undetectable directly.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Prof.dr. A.H. Meijer

The thesis introduces three methods for high-dimensional prediction problems in the biomedical field. The methods make use of empirical and variational Bayes in the estimation.

Lecture

This thesis develops a method for direction dependent calibration of the ionosphere in radio interferometric data.

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

Over several decades, a variety of computational methods for drug discovery have been proposed and applied in practice. With the accumulation of data and the development of machine learning methods, computational drug design methods have gradually shifted to a new paradigm, i.e. deep learning methods…

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

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

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, E. Fouvry (Univeriste Paris Saclay)

Promotores: A.P. IJzerman, H.W.T. van Vlijmen

Lecture

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: T.H. Reijmers

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.