Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

In this project innovative technology for photovoltaics cells is developed and analysis of ecological and health related risks are explicitly accounted for.

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

Promotor: Huub J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

Naar schatting bestaat de wereldbevolking over twintig jaar uit ongeveer 8,7 miljard mensen, terwijl dat aantal nu 7,3 miljard is. Deze groei, gecombineerd met de bijbehorende groei in consumptie en de verbeteringen in levensstandaarden, zal resulteren in een enorme groei in de vraag naar voedsel, verbruiksgoederen,…

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

As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

With increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and their detrimental effect on the global climate, modern society needs to push for more renewable energy sources. Storing widely accessible and abundant solar energy in chemical bonds in the form of molecular fuel via artificial photosynthesis…

Supervisor: S.F. Portegies Zwart Co-Supervisor: A.G.A. Brown

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.

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

Solar energy harnessed by plants and algae has great potential to be converted into biofuels for future generations.

Even though more than 4000 extra-solar planets are known today, only a small fraction of these has been captured in an image. To better understand the planet formation mechanisms in solar-like environments we started the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES).

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

Hetterscheid

The focus of this thesis is how stars like our Sun and planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth are formed.

Systems are called real-time systems, if the correctness of the system does not only depend on the correctness of the system output but also on whether the output is delivered on time.

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

This thesis examines silicon pore optics (SPO), a technology that exploits silicon wafers from the semiconductor industry to create extremely high quality X-ray optics, by studying its manufacturing process, applications, and prospects.

In this thesis, classes of strongly interacting quantum field theories, have been studied.

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

Het Solar Fish-project van hoogleraar biofysische organische chemie Huub de Groot, krijgt een plaats in het Llowlab op popfestival Lowlands.

What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

Juurlink

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?

De Energie survival gids van prof. Jo Hermans is nu ook in het Engels beschikbaar en bovendien is het boek volledig geüpdated. De Energy Survival Guide is een compacte en betrouwbare bron van informatie voor iedereen die op zoek is naar adviezen over de toekomst van de wereldwijde energievoorziening…

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.

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.

Op 24 mei 2022 gaf Christa Tobler een lezing over

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

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

Scattering of light in the presence of nano-structured materials, i.e. with features in the order of the wavelength of the light or smaller, reveals details of how light interacts with matter at the nanoscale.

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

Microbial rhodopsins are photosensitive pigments implemented in the growth and adaptation of a large population of microorganisms.

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

At the largest scales, two ingredients dictate the distribution of matter in the Universe. The first is dark matter, acting as an invisible scaffolding held together by gravitational forces.

Op Dinsdag 10 Maart 2015 - 10h zal Ernst Worrell, professor aan de Universteit Utrecht met een leerstoel op