Water is all around us and is vital for all aspects of life. Studying the various compounds and life forms that inhabit natural waters lets us better understand the world around us.

Cardiovascular diseases are still a major concern for the global health.

Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is een van de instituten van de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen.

The thesis describes experimental steps towards reduction of friction on the macroscopic scale by scenarios of thermo- and superlubricity well-known on the nanoscale.

This thesis consists of three chapters. Each chapter is on a different subject. However, all three chapters address issues that arise in counting arithmetically interesting objects.

The main theme of this thesis is the theoretical study of Gaussian processes as a tool in Bayesian nonparametric statistics.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Co-Promotor: Rychard Bouwens

The department of Industrial Ecology is dealing with research into the development of tools for decision making on sustainable production and consumption.

Studievoorlichting

Emeritus hoogleraar Harry Stroomer vertelt in NRC over zijn veertigjarige project: een woordenboek Tachelhiyt-Frans van ruim 3.000 pagina’s.

Promotie

In 2022 hebben medewerkers en studenten van de Universiteit Leiden veel mooie prijzen gewonnen en belangrijke onderzoekssubsidies binnengehaald.

The Chair of Medieval Latin (University of Zurich) invites applications for two PhD positions in the field of Medieval Latin. The positions are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the project “Il mondo antico visto dalle glosse medievali”. Deadline: 31 December 2022.

The Abbey Library of Saint Gall and the Chair for Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg organize their third Summer School Medieval Writing Culture (V to XV century), which will be held from 16 till 20 May 2022. Deadline for applications: 3 March 2022.

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Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Area Studies

The chair of Ancient and Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen is organizing a new lecture series. In the RAM-lectures, a great variety of scholars in the fields of Antiquity and the Middle Ages will discuss their research. Students, PhD’s and staff are most welcome to attend. The lectures…

Jan Dumolyn, Professor of History at Ghent Universty gives the Inaugural lecture at the University of Namur. 12 March 2025

Security is key to survival for any living organism: life is full of perils and threats, both physically, environmentally, and societally. Security challenges such as terrorism, natural disasters, and cybercrime rank among the most pressing issues of our time, affecting the security and safety of millions…

Cool Little Kids is een onderzoeksproject ter preventie van angstproblemen bij verlegen en teruggetrokken kinderen van 3-6 jaar die extreem verlegen of angstig zijn.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Universite Bordeaux I)

Het intern gerenoveerde P.J. Vethgebouw is in de zomer van 2017 feestelijk geopend en in gebruik genomen door de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen. Dit is het eerste afgeronde deelproject in de ontwikkeling van een vernieuwde Humanities Campus. Met grote zorgvuldigheid is het monument omgevormd tot een…

How can ecosystem services within river catchments be quantified in spatial and temporal explicit way?

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How can we quantify the density of species within a community through environmental DNA concentrations?

What is vegetation structure and composition in SFM primary forest, secondary logged over forest (logging FSC certified and logging non certified) in comparison to primary forest? What is avian guild diversity in SFM primary forest, secondary logged over forest (logging FSC certified and logging non…

Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

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.

How and to what extent the historic house (re-)constructs identity through image-making in China.

Het belangrijkste doel van dit onderzoek is om de steden van het Romeinse Nabije Oosten in de keizertijd in kaart te brengen, met een focus op locatie, stadsgrootte en stedelijke kenmerken, om de vorm van het stedelijke systeem en de niveaus van integratie te bestuderen.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Protoplanetary disks are the gas and dust environments where planetary systems form around young stars. Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) this thesis analyses the gaseous molecular reservoir, using multiple tracers to resolve the 3D structure of protoplanetary…

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.

Because thin systems can deform along the thickness with relative ease, the interplay between surface mechanics and geometry plays a fundamental role in sculpting their three-dimensional shape.

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

Curved single crystals provide variable, but well-defined surface structures.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

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

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