The research group Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present investigates a wide range of national political cultures in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead of only analyzing high politics (the acts of governments and political parties), the research group focuses…

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

A common method to solve expensive function evaluation problem is using Bayesian Global Optimization, instead of Evolutionary Algorithms.

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the main reasons for drug attrition during pre-clinical and clinical phases of drug development as well as for drug withdrawal post-marketing.

In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…

Promotor: E. F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: C. Walsh

Promotores: Prof.dr. H. van Veen & Prof.dr. W. de Boer (Wageningen University)

How can we develop and further improve life cycle impact assessment methods, characterisation factors and normalisation factors?

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

Planets are formed in disks of gas and dust around young stars.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancer in males.

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

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Glucocorticoids are potent anti-inflammatory drugs widely used clinically to treat various inflammatory and immune conditions. However, two main clinical problems limit their use. GCs trigger severe side effects and they induce acquired glucocorticoid resistance, especially during chronic systemic treatment…

A plasma is an ionized gas with very low electrical resistivity. As such, magnetic field lines are 'frozen in' and move with the fluid. Magnetic field lines that are linked, knotted and tangled, cannot be undone by the fluid motions.

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotor: J.J. Boelens, R.G.M. Bredius

With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), one of the largest families of membrane proteins, are responsive to a diverse set of physiological endogenous ligands including hormones and neurotransmitters.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

Cardiovascular syndromes are the major cause of death in Western societies.

Promotor: Peter Stevenhagen

Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is responsible for light absorption and excitation energy transfer in plants and photosynthetic algae, while in high light it undergoes conformational changes by which it quenches excitations to prevent photodamage.

Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.

Statistical considerations guide the design and implementation of the experiments that scientists perform. For instance, in a clinical trial about a the efficacy of a treatment, its effect in a certain minimum amount of patients has to be observed in order to make confident assertions about the efficacy…

This thesis applies data mining in commercial settings in the telecommunications industry.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. J. de Vries

Promotores: H.A. Udo De Haes, P.M. Brakefield

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

This work is dedicated to interpreting in cohomological terms the special values of zeta functions of arithmetic schemes.

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

This dissertation is an experimental study of laser-generated, atmospheric pressure, transient toroidal helium plasmas.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

The focus of the dissertation

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

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

The overall objectives of my thesis are to investigate the dynamics of the sorghum root microbiome and to explore the beneficial effects of the root microbiome on sorghum growth and stress tolerance.

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.

Promotores: J. Jonkers, K.E. de Visser

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, A. Enge Co-Promotor: T.C. Streng

Bicarbonate buffer is largely found in nature due to its ability to regulate pH variations around neutral values. As the pH changes, so does the speciation of the buffer.

Multiple stars, that is two or more stars composing a gravitationally bound system, are common in the universe.

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Muster

Promotors: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. B. Sendhoff (Technische Universität Darmstadt)