By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. I.A.G. Snellen, C.U. Keller

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.C. van Welzen

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: H.A. Every

LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).

This thesis revolves around the electronic spectroscopy of molecules in the laboratory and the search for the carriers of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs).

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. F. van Dishoeck

This PhD thesis concerns the topic of arithmetic geometry. We address three different questions and each of the questions in some way is about counting how big some set is or can be.

Fase 2A van het Gorlaeus Gebouw wordt, net als fase 1, duurzaam gebouwd.

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

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

Galaxies are environments where gas coalesces, cools, and is converted into stars. However, it remains unclear the exact mechanisms through which galaxies acquire, redistribute and lose their gas.

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

Synthetic microswimmers take an important place within the interdisciplinary field of active soft matter.

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic disease caused by blood dwelling parasitic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, and it is classified as the second most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease, second only to malaria.

Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas Co-Supervisor: R. Offringa

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

The thesis describes terrestrial field trials aimed to detect side-effects of pesticides within the framework of pesticide registration procedures. Field trials were developed using vascular plants Brassica napus and Poa annua, caterpillars Pieris brassicae and effects on decomposition were studied…

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets. Co-promotores: B. Gravendeel, F. Pupulin

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Het Mathematisch Instituut is verantwoordelijk voor het onderzoek en onderwijs in de wiskunde en de statistiek aan de Universiteit Leiden.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are used as a current carrying substrate in investigation of current-induced forces in a low-temperature STM (chapter 2).

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

Promotor: B. vd Water, T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Electoral Systems and Turnout: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd op de website SAGE research methods, bespreken auteurs Jaroslaw Kantorowicz en Tobias M. Hlobil hoe een Regression Discontinuity Design uitgevoerd kan worden.

Promotor: J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-Promotor: A. Kros

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

Sustainable energy from wind and solar is most readily available near the sea.

Promotores: J. Zaanen, A. Parnachev

Promotor: T. Schmidt

Promotores: H.S. Overkleeft; G.A. van der Marel Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Portegies Zwart

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

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

Growth and development affect the metabolism of drugs administered to neonates, infants, and children.

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.