The main goal of this thesis is to achieve advanced control of binding properties in bis-pyrrolic and macrocyclic pyrrolic receptors by light.

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Alumnus Jan Versteegh vertelt onder andere over hoe de samenwerking tussen advocatenkantoor TeekensKarstens en Leiden Law School destijds tot stand is gekomen in ons maandelijkse flitsinterview.

George Maduro, Leids alumnus, was de naamgever van Madurodam. Deze oorlogs- en verzetsheld stierf op 28-jarige leeftijd in concentratiekamp Dachau. ‘Veel van wat bekend is over hem, klopt niet’, zegt biograaf Kathleen Brandt-Carey.

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

In the search for sustainable energy solutions, the idea of artificial photosynthesis has been proposed as an approach with which to use water and sunlight to produce hydrogen.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn & Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

The solar system was formed approximately 4.56 billion years ago. Despite the numerous theories that have been developed over the years, the formation and evolution of the solar system still remain unclear.

GLOBOX is a spatially differentiated multimedia fate, exposure and effect model. It is used for the calculation of spatially differentiated LCA characterisation factors on a global scale.

Waarom is het zo lastig om duurzaamheidsproblemen op te lossen, terwijl iedereen toch ‘weet’ wat de problemen zijn? Met die vraag speelden bestuurskundigen en milieuwetenschappers van de Universiteit Leiden op dinsdagavond 20 november in een masterclass Duurzaamheid voor alumni.

Een breed aanbod van Engels- en Nederlandstalige masteropleidingen en persoonlijke begeleiding bij Universiteit Leiden.

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Kunsthistorica, schrijfster en Leids alumna Gerdien Verschoor (1963) volgde een opmerkelijk pad voordat zij in 2019 directeur werd van Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork. De vrouw met diep bewustzijn van historische plaatsen ziet er toeval in, maar de puzzelstukken vallen wel goed op hun plek.

Wija Wijayanto en Arum Perwitasari zijn in Leiden gepromoveerd dankzij het Leiden-DIKTI Graduate Scholarship Programme. Duizenden Indonesische studenten reizen met die beurs naar het buitenland af, om daar hun proefschrift te schrijven. Tijdens hun promotietraject ontdekten Arum en Wija ook hoe het…

Martijn van Klaveren studeerde rechten in Leiden en is tegenwoordig directeur communicatie bij Novamedia, het bedrijf achter onder meer de Nationale Postcode Loterij.

Na één bachelor en twee masters aan de Universiteit Leiden, sloot alumnus Filosofische Perspectieven op Politiek en Economie Matthieu Agustoni zijn studententijd af met een knaller: hij kreeg zijn masterscriptie gepubliceerd in een prestigieus tijdschrift.

Alumni-activiteit

In januari vond in het Auditorium van de Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) het eerste Career College plaats. Facultaire loopbaanadviseur Dianne Karkdijk had drie Bestuurskunde-alumni bereid gevonden te vertellen over hun carrière.

(Jonge) professionals die voor de master Management van de Publieke Sector kiezen (willen) werken aan uitdagende, maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Sommige van hen willen een volgende stap maken in hun loopbaan. Deze master stelt studenten in staat om een effectieve bijdrage aan het functioneren van het…

Vrouwen eindelijk weg van het aanrecht en gezond eten in kantines. Voeding was volop aanwezig in Sovjetpropaganda. Leidse alumnus Olav Hofland won met zijn scriptie over de keukenpolitiek van de Soviet-Unie de Volkskrant-ISSG-Scriptieprijs. In de Volkskrant vertelt hij over zijn onderzoek.

Het flitsinterview van deze maand is met alumna Sytske Besemer, criminologe, die werkt bij Cradle, een start-up. Sytske heeft bewust gekozen om te werken in het bedrijfsleven, maar dan wel bij bedrijven met maatschappelijke impact. En ze staat op het punt (weer) te verhuizen, dit keer naar Zürich.

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Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

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.

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

This report investigates the different approaches in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use in the European Union and the United States of America. Three main aspects are considered and analyzed as potential causes of differences in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use.…

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.

The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

Carbon dioxide capture and utilization technologies are necessary to create a truly circular economy. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formate is an appealing carbon utilization method as it can be performed at room temperature and pressure, it only requires two electrons, and it has…

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Over the past years it has been discovered that the population of extra-solar planets is large and diverse.

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

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

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…

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is widely used to automatically build a suitable practical Machine Learning (ML) model for an arbitrary real-world problem, reducing the effort of practitioners in the ML development cycle for real-world applications. Optimization is a key part of a typical AutoML…

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

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.

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

This dissertation contains four works during my PhD. Different biomaterials have been designed based on coiled-coil peptides. These biomaterials have a range of applications, inclusing drug delivery, cell sorting to cell-cell fusion.

Dissolving microneedles are a subgroup of microneedle types that completely dissolve within the skin. During this dissolving process the vaccine, stored in the needle matrix, is released into the skin.

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

Cardiovascular diseases are among the most frequent causes of death in the world. The main underlying pathology of cardiovascular diseases is the development of atherosclerosis in the medium and large-sized arteries.

Vitamin A or retinol is essential in embryonic development, the visual cycle and the immune system.