The STW project Energy Efficient Computer-Brain Interaction (principal investigator for LIACS: dr. T.P. Stefanov) has been granted. Funding for LIACS: 1 PhD student + travel/equipment budget, project duration: 4 years.

Congres/symposium

Het onderzoek naar de kwaliteit van fiscale regelgeving richt zich niet alleen op de kwaliteit van fiscale regels die afkomstig zijn van de wetgever. Ook wordt de positie van de belastingrechter onderzocht daar waar hij optreedt als wetgever-plaatsvervanger.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Heck, Co-Promotor: B.P. Tighe

Afgelopen vrijdag 19 maart werd de nieuwe opleiding ‘Leiden Legal Technologies Program’ voor professionals online feestelijk geopend. Onder andere de Minister voor Rechtsbescherming Drs. Sander Dekker, de Wethouder Economie, Internationaal, en Dienstverlening van de Gemeente Den Haag Drs. Saskia Bruines,…

De afdeling Civiel recht verzorgt onderwijs en onderzoek op het gebied van het Civiel recht.

Promotor: A.H. Meijer, Co-promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

The thesis addresses the long-term dynamical evolution of hierarchical multiple systems.

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

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

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

Promotores:Th.J.C. van Berkel, M. van Eck

Current therapies for patients with atherosclerosis are targeted primarily on reducing blood cholesterol, but this fails to prevent a large number of cardiovascular events.95 In order to identify new therapeutic strategies for treating atherosclerosis, it is important to study the interactions between…

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

Eind maart heeft Jeanette Satink het Beijing Children's Legal Aid and Research Center (BCLARC) bezocht. Het in 1999 opgerichte BCLARC was de eerste Chinese NGO die zich specialiseerde in kinderrechten en heeft een belangrijke rol gespeeld bij de bevordering van het welzijn van minderjarigen door advocaten…

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?

Leiden University and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management are involved in a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Data-Driven Risk Assessment in Infrastructure Networks'

This thesis focuses on the social dimensions of crane and wetland conservation in rural landscapes in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Promotie

What are trait-trait relationships in wetlands? To what extent the so-called leaf economics traits deviate from terrestrial ecosystems? How traits specific to wetland plant relate to plant strategies? What’s the relationship between wetland plant traits to the ecosystem functioning (e.g. productivity,…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

Op dinsdag 11 februari 2020 verdedigde Clara van Dam haar proefschrift ‘Guidance documents of the European Commission in the Dutch legal order’.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

This thesis is a collection of experimental attempts to enhance photoluminescence of fluorescent molecules and quantum dots with single gold nanorods (GNRs) and relevant applications.

The Science Communication and Society specialisation (SCS) focuses on the interaction between science and society.

Op 19 mei 2016 verdedigt Rosmarijn van Kleef haar proefschrift getiteld: Liability of football clubs for supporters’ misconduct. A study into the interaction between disciplinary regulations of sports organisations and civil law'.

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

Principles of Environmental Sciences provides a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living and non-living environment and mankind. Both the analysis of such problems and the way solutions to environmental…

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.A.J. Knibbe, Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. K. Allegaert (Leuven)

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

Promotie

Hoe gaan we om met het opnemen en inpassen van regels en beginselen die de privaatrechtelijke rechtsorde binnenkomen?

Adenosine is an endogenous ligand which exerts its action by activating adenosine receptors (ARs), while its circulating levels are controlled via a variety of mechanism and proteins, amongst others the equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs).

Bijeenkomst Research Lab

Atoms and molecules are the basic units of matter. If we keep dividing a bar of gold or a glass of water into smaller parts, at the end we are left with a single gold atom or a water molecule.

Studievoorlichting

Studievoorlichting