Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: S.C. Hille

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotor: O.W. van Gaans

This thesis provides explicit expressions for the density functions of absolutely continuous invariant measures for general families of interval maps, that include random maps and infinite measure transformations, not necessarily number systems.

Promotor: G. van Dijk

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

This dissertation consists of two parts, each of which considers a different research area related to random interval maps. In the first part we are interested in random interval maps that are critically intermittent.

In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

In this thesis, we study travelling waves in stochastic reaction-diffusion equations. We extend techniques from the deterministic theory for travelling waves to apply to the stochastic version, which allows us to compute the stochastic wave speed and shape, and draw conclusions on the stability of the…

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O.W. van Gaans

Promotie

In this thesis we study the landscape of gravitational models which modify GR by introducing an additional scalar degree of freedom (d.o.f.) to source Cosmic Acceleration.

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

Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander

Lezing

Promotor: Arjen Doelman, Co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer

This work describes several studies into the electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR), both regarding mechanistical aspects and catalyst stability considerations. Mechanistic insights into carbon-carbon bond formation on a silver catalyst are described in Ch 2, were we find an acetaldehyde-like surface…

Promotie

Op woensdag 5 juni gaf Kalin Anev Janse, Secretaris-Generaal en lid Raad van Bestuur van het European Stability Mechanism (ESM), een lezing getiteld 'Bridging decision-making: a new direction for Europe? Prioritising financial stability: the European Stability Mechanism and the Banking Union'.

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

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

Gibbs measures, as used in Statistical Mechanics, have a definition that is remarkably similar to the definition ofg-measures, used in dynamical systems.

This thesis describes biochemical investigations of glucocerebrosidase (GBA), the lysosomal β- glucosidase that is deficient in Gaucher disease (GD).

In my research, we developed a method to distinguish knots. A knot is a mathematical depiction of the everyday knot that occurs in ropes and cords.

Plants and their pollinators form complex interaction networks. Within these networks, species differ widely in the number of species they interact with.

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée

The external tissues of plants and animals are colonized by microbial communities termed microbiota. When organisms are exposed to environmental pollutants, these substances will therefore encounter microbiota at the exposure interface.

The focus of the dissertation

In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Doelman, Co-promotor: V. Rottschäfer

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel, M. van Heel

If X is a locally compact Hausdorff space, then a representation of the complex C* algebra C_0(X) on a Hilbert space $H$ is given by a spectral measure that takes its values in the orthogonal projections on $H$.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.

How are links between macro-invertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning influenced by anthropogenic pressures?

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.

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?

In this thesis we study bistable reaction-diffusion equations on lattice domains.

Lezing

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: R. Fernandez.

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

Dissolving microneedles are a subgroup of microneedle types that completely dissolve within the skin. During this dissolving process the vaccine, stored in the needle matrix, is released into the skin.

Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

Promotor: R. Gill, Co-promotor: P. Massart