Hoe kunnen we een balans vinden tussen de soms tegenstrijdige belangen van individuele, publieke en private data-producenten en –verwerkers?

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

The theoretical explanation of cosmic acceleration is nowadays one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Eliel, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken Co-Promotor: R. Felici

Een infrastructuur voor onderzoeksdata in computationele sociale wetenschappen

In condensed matter systems electron-electron interactions, negligible in everyday metals, can dramatically alter the electronic behavior of the system. Examples of such altered behavior include high-temperature superconductivity and modulation of the electron density.

Stemwijzers—applicaties die kiezers helpen te bepalen welke partij of kandidaat het beste past bij hun politieke voorkeur—spelen een steeds belangrijker rol in verkiezingen. De politicologen Martin Rosema (Universeit Twente) en Tom Louwerse (Universiteit Leiden) onderzoeken of het ontwerp van deze publicaties…

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: M.R. Hogerheijde

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

The thesis describes experimental steps towards reduction of friction on the macroscopic scale by scenarios of thermo- and superlubricity well-known on the nanoscale.

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

The aim of this thesis is to expedite and ensure the systematic accuracy of clearance scaling from adults to paediatric patients, with a special focus on drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism.

How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Prof.dr. J.C.T. Eijkel (Twente University)

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

How can we, together international experts, define future needs of R+D contributions for innovations in the field of risk-based management of chemicals and products in a global perspective using alternative testing strategies to minimize animal tests?

Het Leidse natuurkunde-instituut organiseert van 16 tot 26 juli haar jaarlijkse summer school ‘Modern Physics at all Scales’.

Op 15 November begon Joost Visser als hoogleraar Large Scale Software en Data Science bij het Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). Hij zal bij LIACS het software engineering onderzoek leiden en hoofd worden van het master programma ICT in Business and the Public Sector.

Galaxies form and live inside dark matter haloes. As a consequence, they are exposed to the tidal fields generated by the surrounding matter distribution: this imprints a preferential direction to the galaxy shapes, which leads to a coherent alignment on physically close galaxies, called intrinsic a…

In this thesis, I study the formation of large-scale structure and the physics of particle acceleration at large scales (~Mpc).

This thesis is about cosmological inflation and its relation to observations.

Lezing, Walks and Talks

This dissertation studies the Asymptotics of Bayesian nonparametric inference for Gaussian linear models.

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Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye, Prof.dr. S.D.M. White (MPA Garching)

In this thesis, I studied the origin and evolution of the non-thermal radiation in merging galaxy clusters.

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

Of all the mass in our Universe, 80% is thought to consist of a hypothetical and invisible substance called dark matter (DM).

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

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I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

Cristina Grasseni’s project

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a tomographic 3D imaging technique used for specimens in the millimetre scale.

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: M. Haverkorn

Biodiversity enables ecosystems to thrive through the synergy of functional differences among organisms. While human well-being strongly depends on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services, human actions are also at the root of current unprecedented biodiversity declines.

In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.

Examining if large scale application of new energy pathways can be constrained by materials and emissions.

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

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Lezing

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky