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

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

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

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

In this thesis, we describe the latest advances in SQUID-detected Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM).

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

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.

In this thesis, we show how MRFM can usefully contribute to the field of condensed-matter.

Promotor: T.H. Oosterkamp

There are many interpretations of quantum mechanics, and ultimately experiments are needed to verify or falsify these interpretations.

The thesis introduces three methods for high-dimensional prediction problems in the biomedical field. The methods make use of empirical and variational Bayes in the estimation.

Huub de Groot

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

Promotor: Jan van der Greef; Co-promotors: Mei Wang; Eduard van Wijk

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.W. Lenstra

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.

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra

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

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra, Jr., Co-promotor: B. de Smit

Promotores: T.H. Oosterkamp, N. de Jonge

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

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

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Co-Promotor: J.H. Evertse

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

Promotor: V. Vitelli, Co-promotor: J. Paulose

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Sterrewacht Leiden (STRW)

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Univ. de Bordeaux)

In this thesis, we show that we can use Shimura’s CM theory to explicitly compute the Hilbert class field of any primitive quartic CM field.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier

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…

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 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.

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

In this work we describe three methods to improve the performance of Quantum Field Theory calculations.

Promotores: W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg, G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: M.G. Vijver

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven

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Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. Its properties cannot be explained with the known laws of physics and elementary particles.

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.

Until the 1990s, the only known planets were those in our Solar System. Three decades later, several thousand exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and substantial efforts have been made to explore these strange new worlds through spectroscopic analyses of their atmosphe…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz

Pulsars were first discovered in 1967 and since then the population has grown and expanded over several wavelengths.