Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

We investigate the buildup of galaxies from various vantage points. The first two chapters focus on the stellar content of galaxies, especially the distribution of stellar masses at birth and potential variations therein in various galactic environments.

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. P.G. van Dokkum (Yale University)

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Co-Promotor: Rychard Bouwens

This thesis explores the theoretical and observational properties of distant massive galaxies that harbour active black holes in their centres and shine brightly at radio wavelengths.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

To study how planetary systems come into existence we study much younger systems still in formation.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

This thesis investigates how galaxies form and what diversifies the evolutionary histories of galaxies.

The challenge of achieving fast quantification in metabolomics is the presence of severe matrix effects during the MS analysis of complex samples.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier

We have studied shape with a particular focus on the zebrafish model system. The shape is an essential appearance of the phenotype of a biological specimen and it can be used to read out a current state or response or to study gene expression.

This thesis describes the implementation and on-sky demonstration of high-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for extreme adaptive optics systems that are used to find and characterize exoplanets.

This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

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This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

This thesis investigates the relations between metabolism and anatomy through the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M de Groot, Co-Promotor: A. Alia

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

This thesis develops statistical methods for the analysis of high dimensional data: high dimensional networks reconstruction (Chapters 1-4), incorporation of prior information in networks reconstruction (Chapters 2-4), incorporation of prior knowledge in genetic association studies (Chapter 3).

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: G.J. Herczeg

Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) was tested in chronic worriers. tVNS may reduce spontaneously occurring negative thought intrusions. After a worry induction, there was no longer an effect of tVNS. tVNS did not affect physiological responding to worrying.

We describe certain birational modifications of nodal relative curves over a regular base of arbitrary dimension.

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: G.K. Miley

Promotor: B. van de Water

Hot astrophysical plasma is ubiquitous in the Universe, from comets in our Solar system to the largest scale structures -- the cosmic web filaments. These hot plasmas, with the temperature of a few millions of degrees, are often observed in the X-ray wavelength range.

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. F.F.S. van der Tak (RUG)

Onderzoekers van de Universiteit Leiden onder leiding van Mario van der Stelt (Leids Instituut voor de Chemie) wijzen ‘gouden standaarden’ aan om nieuwe pijnstillers te ontwikkelen die gebaseerd zijn op de medicinale werking van cannabis. Publicatie in Nature Communications.

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks

HEPGAME is a research project that combines the world’s fastest computer algebra system for High Energy Physics equations, FORM, with insights from artificial intelligence. The name combines High Energy Physics and Games.

Het onderzoek van de groep van Mario van der Stelt naar gouden standaarden voor pijnstillende wiet zonder de gebruikelijke high is in een artikel van NOS op 3 verschenen. In een interview legt van der Stelt uit wat dit onderzoek precies voor de wetenschap en de samenleving kan betekenen.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Professor Barend Mons has been appointed Chair of the Commission High Level Expert Group "European Open Science Cloud", initiated by the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation.

Promotor: B. van de Water

Promotor: I. Snellen, Co-Promotor: M. Kenworthy

A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.

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

Speeddates met studentes Natuurkunde en vrouwelijke (technisch) natuurkundigen uit het bedrijfsleven, een college volgen van natuurkundige prof.dr. Doris Heinrich, zelf onderzoek doen en een High Tea. Daarvoor kwamen zo'n 90 meisjes naar de Physics Ladies's Day op 31 oktober.