The [a]social creatures lab focusses on understanding social interaction with and between artificial creatures.

The Dutch colonial past in Indonesia has had a major influence on literature.

Diacylglycerol lipases (DAGLα and DAGLβ) convert diacylglycerol to the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol. Our understanding of DAGL function has been hindered by a lack of chemical probes that can perturb these enzymes in vivo.

On May 3rd, Varun de Castro Arrazola succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Varun on this great result.

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

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present.

This study explores public leaders’ organizational learning orientation in the wake of a crisis. More precisely, we study the association between public leaders’ public service motivation and their learning orientation (instrumental versus political).

Here you find the curriculum of the master's specialisations of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology.

This Thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of ADP-ribosylated compounds that can be applied in biological studies.

Cultural Anthropologist Erik de Maaker published, together with Monica Janoswki (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Stories across Borders: Myths of Origin and Their Contestation in the Borderlands of South and Southeast Asia in Southeast Asian Studies (SEAS).

Rembrandt & Leiden University: The Bigger Picture commemorates the 444th anniversary of Leiden University and the 2019 Rembrandt Year. Our special thanks go to Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg), The Leiden Collection (New York), Museum De Lakenhal (Leiden), Mauritshuis (The Hague), Rijksmuseum/Musée…

Tom Buitelaar is an Assistant Professor in the War, Peace & Justice program of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. This paper suggests a number of important avenues for states, the UN, and the ICC to improve the likelihood that the ICC receives assistance from UN peace operations.

Stichthage, Koningin Julianaplein 10 (13th floor), 2595 AA, The Hague

This dissertation consists of two parts, each of which considers a different research area related to random interval maps. In the first part we are interested in random interval maps that are critically intermittent.

Radiography is an important technique to inspect objects, with applications in airports and hospitals. X-ray imaging is also essential in industry, for instance in food safety checks for the presence of foreign objects.

Newly published: ‘Background to Beakers’; inquiries into regional cultural backgrounds of the Bell Beaker Complex. Harry Fokkens / Franco Nicolis (eds.).

In this study we aimed to examine teacher learning within a context of collaboration in interdisciplinary teams.

Within the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, medievalists from six Dutch universities work together. The school (together with the local graduate schools of the universities) takes care of the training of researchers focussed on the Middle Ages and provides educational activities…

The University Council is the central co-participation body of the University.

The motivation of student teachers for the teacher's profession depends on various factors. Teacher training can influence the commitment of students.

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting millions of people world-wide.

During the early modern period, many medieval manuscripts were cut up into strips of parchment which were reused to reinforce the bindings of newly printed books. Until recently, these reused pieces of medieval manuscripts only came to light when the early modern book binding was damaged and/or subjected…

What are the mechanisms involved in the reconciliation of value conflicts and which interventions are capable of resolving such disputes?

Galaxies are environments where gas coalesces, cools, and is converted into stars. However, it remains unclear the exact mechanisms through which galaxies acquire, redistribute and lose their gas.

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

LUGO is launching Green Teams throughout the University, starting with the Law and Archeology faculties.

Intermediality, Media Practices and Media Literacy is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.

On 12 April 2022 Alok Oak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Both Europe and Latin America face challenges globally and at home. Conflicts over land and resources have been resurgent in recent years.

The expansion of the fund industry has been one of the most notable trends in the financial markets of recent years.

This thesis describes the design, characterization and application of dextran based crosslinked network.

The present study explores the role of water in the ancient Roman city of Ostia.In antiquity, Ostia was situated at the intersection of the Tiber River and the Mediterranean Sea, and acted as one of the harbour cities of Rome for several centuries.This study investigates how water was acquired, used,…

This thesis mainly focuses on cross-modal retrieval and single-modal image retrieval via deep learning methods, i.e. by using deep convolutional neural networks.

What was the nature of the urban network in the Roman provinces of Germania Superior, Raetia and Noricum and how stood this in relation with economic and social developments?

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts Volume 87 in the series Religion and Society

The active learning network joins together everyone interested in the subject to move the theme further within Leiden University. The SALTSWAT pilot program researches the ways forward for Leiden University.

The study of language in change.

This thesis explores several aspects of these Early Old Babylonian Amorites.

This dissertation contains a detailed description of the Carib language, including the most extensive dictionary of the language to date. This knowledge is based on work from earlier sources and field work which was carried out by the author over a ten-year period, particularly in Galibi, a Carib village…

This thesis provides explicit expressions for the density functions of absolutely continuous invariant measures for general families of interval maps, that include random maps and infinite measure transformations, not necessarily number systems.

School of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Geneva - Switzerland

What are the essential determinants of (dis)trust? And, what are the effects of being (dis)trusted?

Dr. at the Department of organic chemistry, Wageningen University - the Nederlands

On Tuesday 10 September 2024 May Shaddel Basir successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Leiden University offers many possibilities to Chinese students that want to study abroad.