Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

What are the flows of C&DW (e.g. bricks, concrete, gypsum and wood) in the case study countries ? How to define the specification for each material to be quantified? What indicators should be used to identify the pattern of each C&DW management system? How to interpret the MFA results in relation…

The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

What are the behaviours of plant traits throughout various points in the growing season in a radiative transfer model framework and how well can this knowledge be integrated through data assimilation to provide priors for robust local and global vegetation products and analysis?

Where and how are critical materials currently used and how can this information be used to develop scenarios about their future demand.

This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

De eerste ILS Lunch Seminar van 2017 staat gepland voor maandag 30 januari. Tijdens de ILS Lunch Seminars kunnen alle onderzoekers van de faculteit hun onderzoek presenteren. Het doel is om op een toegankelijke en efficiënte manier op de hoogte zijn van onderzoeken van verschillende onderzoeksprogramma's…

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

One of the main challenges in the development of an effective anti-cancer vaccine is the generation of an adequate and directed cellular immune response.

A century ago, it was unclear whether the stars in the sky were clustered in groups, or widely spread in the universe.

Majorana fermions in superconductors are the subgap quasiparticle excitations that are their own antiparticles.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier

Does a high quality prairie restoration in an urban/agricultural landscape provide invertebrates necessary for a sustainable ecosystem?

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

It has been a long-standing mystery how complex biological structures emerge from such seemingly uncoordinated building blocks as cells and tissues, in the presence of only minimal environmental guidance.

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

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.

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.

This thesis is about the study of hydrocarbons via infrared spectroscopy.

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

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

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In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Humans and songbirds learn their vocalizations early in life by exposure to the vocalizations of adult conspecifics. Often, better learning outcomes are achieved with live, social, tutors than with audio-only exposure to vocalizations.

Promotores: T. Hankemeier; R. Berger, Co-promotor: R.J. Vreeken

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Promotor: A. Kros

The main goal of the research described in this thesis was the development of new photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) ruthenium(II) complexes bearing a non-toxic photolabile ligand.

The lysosomal β-glucosidase named glucocerebrosidase (GCase) is a retaining β-glucosidase that hydrolyzes the glycosphingolipid glucosylceramide (GlcCer) to ceramide and glucose at acid pH.

Promotor: F.H.J. Redig, Co-Promotor: W.T.F. den Hollander

Antimicrobial drugs constitute a fundamental part of modern medicine. The global rise in antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to global health.

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

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

The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: R.S. de Jong

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

In this thesis, the role of plant-mediated soil legacy effects in shaping aboveground plant-insect interactions was investigated.

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

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

Shape and biological function are tightly connected. Physical descriptions are used to connect the shape of a biological system with its function.

Following the Big Bang, structure in the Universe started collapsing under the force of gravity. This resulted in the formation of the first stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.