Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.

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.

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

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.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: Y.H. Choi

Eline Rademakers en Peter Postma ontvingen de NWO Promotiebeurs voor Leraren. Hieronder vertellen ze hun ervaring.

Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Area Studies

Hoe verspreidt onjuiste informatie zich? Hoe kan je erachter komen of iets klopt of niet? Alexander Pleijter, universitair docent Journalistiek en coördinator bij NieuwsCheckers, was te gast bij Vroeg! Op Radio 1 om in gesprek te gaan over desinformatie en nepnieuws.

Moritz Jesse has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In his MIND-EU Project he will focus on a coherent way to teach Migration, Integration, and Non-Discrimination at Leiden Law School at bachelor and master level.

In aanloop naar de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen heeft het Leidse initiatief Nieuwscheckers in samenwerking met televisieprogramma Pointer en persbureau ANP een factcheckmarathon georganiseerd. Op ANP wordt uitgelegd hoe deze in zijn werk ging.

Lees hier de laatste (pers)berichten en zie hoe de Leiden Science Run in de media verscheen.

Coronavirus, online, zorgpersoneel, klimaatcrisis: een paar van de 118 nieuwe woorden die in de jaarlijkse toespraak van de Koning op Prinsjesdag voor het eerst zijn uitgesproken. Hoogleraar Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media Jaap de Jong nam samen met het team van KRO Pointer de troonrede door.

Het factcheckinitiatief Nieuwscheckers heeft de Nederlandse ronde van de Prijs van de Europese Burger gewonnen. Deze prijs wordt jaarlijks toegekend aan projecten en initiatieven die een uitzonderlijke prestatie binnen de EU leveren.

Welke kansen en bedreigingen vloeien voort uit de institutionele en normatieve diversiteit op het terrein van de rechten van de mens voor de effectieve bescherming van die rechten in een wereld die gekenmerkt wordt door pluralisme?

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Het Leidse Instituut voor Geschiedenis is verantwoordelijk voor het leeuwendeel van het historisch onderzoek dat aan de Universiteit Leiden wordt uitgevoerd.

Het Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) biedt onderwijsprogramma’s aan op bachelor- en masterniveau. Tevens zijn er minoren, wordt er online onderwijs aangeboden en is er onderwijs voor professionals.

The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

Op initiatief van de Stichting Nationale Commissie voor Internationale Samenwerking en Duurzame Ontwikkeling (NCDO) start de Universiteit Leiden met een onderzoek naar mondiaal burgerschap.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, E. Fouvry (Univeriste Paris Saclay)

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier

In this thesis, we aimed to better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in TNBC progression and metastasis formation and discover new targets to reduce breast cancer related deaths.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. F. van Dishoeck

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

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

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

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.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

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

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg

Understanding how galaxies form, interact, and evolve comes largely from comparing theory predictions with observational data. Numerical simulations of galaxies provide the most accurate approach to testing the theory, as they follow the non-linear evolution of gas and dark matter in great detail and…

Despite the fact that gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most studied nanoparticles, there is still a necessity for new approaches allowing for effective protective coating to enable wider use of GNPs in biomedical applications.

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

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

In the first part, we introduce a new condition, called toric-additivity, on a family of abelian varieties degenerating to a semi-abelian scheme over a normal crossing divisor.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.C. van Welzen

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

Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm

The next generation of high-contrast imaging instruments on space-based observatories requires sophisticated wavefront sensing and control in addition to a high-performance coronagraph.

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.