The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.

Drie onderzoeksvoorstellen van onderzoekers van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen zijn door de NWO beloond met een Vrije Competitie Geesteswetenschappen subsidie.

De vraag hoe een militaire interventie het beste kan worden ingezet als startpunt voor of onderdeel van Counter-Terrorisme (CT) beleid vormt de kern van deze drie onderling samenhangende verslagen. Dit onderzoeksproject is mogelijk gemaakt met steun van het NAVO Science for Peace and Security Programme.…

De faculteit is trots op haar alumni. Trots op waar ze terechtkomen en trots op de manier waarop ze bijdragen aan de groei en bloei van de faculteit. Daarnaast zetten we ons in om ook na het afstuderen bij te dragen aan de persoonlijke en professionele ontwikkeling van onze alumni.

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.

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

In this thesis we investigated the ability of two-photon multifocal microscopy for single-molecule microscopy in live cells and organisms.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

A scenario building web-tool and knowledge package to enable multi-level decision making for the transition to the Circular Economy

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: L. Juurlink

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. M. van der Zee

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

Immunotherapies for cancer are an emerging class of therapeutic strategies which aim to treat cancer via augmentation of the immune system.

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

Promotor: I. A. G. Snellen, Co-promotor: M. A. Kenworthy

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) constitutes a small subtype (~15%) of breast cancer, but causes the majority of breast cancer-related deaths.

Promotor: Jaap Brouwer, Co-promotor: Remus Th. Dame

Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.

Ice, the solid state of water, plays an important role on our planet as well as the entire universe.Despite the fact that an individual water molecule has a very simple structure, its chemical bonding in the solid phase can be surprisingly complex.

Source: Structure , Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 1120-1139 (2014)

Het onderzoek in het natural computing cluster omvat theoretische fundamenten, de ontwikkeling van nieuwe algoritmen en interdisciplinaire toepassingen van natuurlijke computermethoden. De drijvende kracht achter hun onderzoek is de missie om het begrip van natuurlijke systemen als rekenmodellen te…

Het systeem van dreigingsniveaus waarmee de bevolking elk kwartaal wordt geïnformeerd over de kans op een aanslag, kan beter worden afgeschaft. Het huidige dreigingsniveau (substantieel) dat al sinds maart 2013 geldt, wordt op te veel uiteenlopende situaties toegepast. Daardoor dreigt het systeem nietszeggend…

Dat stress ongezond is, weet je vast wel. Maar word je er ook sneller oud van? In een college van de Universiteit van Nederland vertelt psycholoog Marieke Tollenaar dat teveel stress niet heel bevorderlijk is voor je jeugdige uitstraling.

Ontdek de cursus Regie geven: autonomie versterken zonder te beperken van het Kenniscentrum voor Psychologie en Economisch Gedrag. Lees hier meer!

Description of 20th century changes in the Dutch flora: Description and interpretation (1999 - 2005)

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Je volgt een basispakket met informaticavakken, economievakken en speciale integratievakken.

Promotores: Bas Edixhoven, Jean-Benoit Bost, Co-promotor: Robin de Jong

Promotie

Op 16 december 2021 verdedigde Lisanne van Houten het proefschrift 'Flexing the Slot Regime'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof. L. Pierallini (Luiss University Of Rome).

While ecosystems have concrete benefits for human society, these benefits are typically overlooked in decision-making.

Inverse problems are problems where we want to estimate the values of certain parameters of a system given observations of the system. Such problems occur in several areas of science and engineering. Inverse problems are often ill-posed, which means that the observations of the system do not uniquely…

Plants and soils from natural ecosystems harbor great diversity of soil microorganisms, which could potentially contribute to the sustainability of horticulture. The knowledge about using wild plant species and soil from natural ecosystem to improve the crop health will advance the application of ecological…

Op weg naar een framework voor wiskundig denken waarin vakinhoud en wiskundige denkactiviteiten zijn geïntegreerd

Glycoconjugate vaccines are composed of microbial poly- or oligosaccharides covalently linked to a carrier protein.

This thesis explores different avenues to develop insurmountable antagonists for CC Chemokine Receptors, such as CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5.

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?

The expedition commanded by Nicolas Baudin to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia, Timor and South Africa in 1800-1804 is fully researched in regard to ornithology.

This PhD-thesis presents a study on micron-sized particles, so-called colloids. By controlling the chemical and physical properties of these particles, such as the interparticle interaction and the particles’ shape, colloids can act as building blocks that self-assembly into larger structures.

This thesis investigates how galaxies form and what diversifies the evolutionary histories of galaxies.

In this thesis, I targeted the orchid genus Lepanthes, one of the six genera of angiosperms that surpasses 1,000 species in the Neotropics, as a study model to investigate the evolutionary processes that promoted species diversifications.

The overarching goal of this thesis is to set the foundations, but also make the first essential steps towards establishing a comprehensive, mesoscopic, hydrodynamic theory of epithelial tissues. The stage is set by an exhaustive study of topological defects in passive p-atic liquid crystals, singularities…

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Streptomyces are bacteria abundant in soil that participate in diverse and complex interactions. These bacteria are the main producers of the antibiotics we currently use in the clinic.

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven