The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…

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Wat is het effect op het milieu van het 2016-verbod op gratis plastic tasjes? Industrieel ecoloog Stefano Cucurachi heeft een subsidie ontvangen van €75.000 van het LUF-SVM Projectsubsidie Fonds* om deze vraag te beantwoorden.

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Zsuzsa Bakk is de winnaar van de Distinguished Dissertation Award 2016 van de Classification Society met het proefschrift 'Contributions to Bias Adjusted Stepwise Latent Class Modeling'.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Hoe kunnen we onze maatschappij zo inrichten dat de wereld leefbaar blijft voor onszelf en al het andere leven om ons heen? Aan dat vraagstuk werken Leidse wetenschappers samen vanuit allerlei disciplines, van biologie tot datawetenschap en van milieueconomie tot archeologie.

Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. C.A. Mandemakers, Co-Promotor: G. Bloothooft

Plant-microbe interaction resulted in different physio/chemical responses by host plant and interacting rhizobacteria.

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotores: N.R. Mustafa, A.E. Schulte

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…

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: Theo Reijmers

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

Promotores: H.A. Udo De Haes, P.M. Brakefield

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Promotor: H.P. Spaink, Co-Promotor: A.H. Meijer

Promotor: B. van de Water

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

In this thesis, the focus lies on studying glucocorticoid receptor dynamics in living cells with the aim of understanding how this transcription factor finds its DNA target sites to regulate transcription.

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

We present an extensive study of methods for exactly solving stochastic constraint (optimisation) problems (SCPs) in network analysis. These problems are prevalent in science, governance and industry.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.T.F. den Hollander

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

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

During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.

This thesis examines the link between simple molecules and the underlying structure and chemistry within protoplanetary disks - the birthplaces of planets.

The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.

Mining time series is a machine learning subfield that focuses on a particular data structure, where variables are measured over (short or long) periods of time.

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

This thesis considers multi-prover commitment schemes whose security is based on restrictions on the communication between the provers.

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

Despite being the object of intense study, embryonic development has been difficult to model due to a number of reasons. First, complex tissues can be comprised of many cell types, of which we probably only know a subset.

Glycoside hydrolases (glycosidases/GHs) are widely abundant enzymes in all kingdoms of life and are important biocatalysts that catalyze the hydrolysis of glycosidic linkages in oligo/polysaccharides, glycoproteins and glycolipids with tremendous efficiency

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

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer