Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen

This dissertation focuses on teacher professional learning and collaboration in secondary schools.

How do leadership behaviour repertoires take shape in public organizations?

Besides the Hortus being a beautiful place where visitors can relax and learn more about plants, we also facilitate botanical research. At the botanic garden, our ‘Living Botany’ research group investigates (plant) biodiversity and the relationship between plants and people.

The general objective of this thesis is to determine a typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-asiatic languages.

Songbirds as vocal learners learn their songs and song preference from social tutors⁠. Tutor choice for both song and preference learning are important to characterize for understanding individual learning performance and cultural transmission of song⁠.

Accelerating the diagnosis and personalising the management of inherited metabolic diseases.

On 9 September 2020, Ruben de Graaff defended his thesis 'Concurrence in European Private Law'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. A.G. Castermans and Prof. S.C.G. Van den Bogaert.

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

The Diversity and Inclusion domain consists of a three-day masterclass on Inclusive Leadership for Depolarisation (English). There are also Dutch courses on Diversity & Inclusion at the Centre for Professional Learning, Leiden University.

Can we link multiple components from herbal extracts with their biological activities?

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

In Europe, archaeological traces of fire become more frequent between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago; but could the earliest occupants have survived without fire for at least half a million years before this? How could the early occupants of Europe have kept warm and processed meat without fire?

This dissertation explores various perspectives on the term immersion, and its relation with, and transformation through, a composer’s practice.

This volume publishes the proceedings of the eleventh annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar. It uses the sphere of legal institutions as a prism through which to consider gender relations in the ancient world, both in the Near East and beyond. It examines how similar issues were manifested…

The main methodological aspects of the use of stepwise LCA estimators under different circumstances.

Extracurricular activities will be organized during the programme. Read more about this activities, e.g. the Leadership Programme.

Find out about information activities for the MSc in Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Development at Leiden University, including webinars, online open days, virtual tours and Master Talks videos.

This article, by Sara Perlstein, explores how perceived social acceptability shapes whether people talk about risks, showing that risk perceptions and conversations are socially negotiated rather than purely individual.

Promotor: M. de Jong, Co-Promotor: Samtleben

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Prof.dr. M. van Heel

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

Generally the data from remote sensing surveys - the scanning of the earth by satellite or aircraft in order to obtain information about it - is screened manually in archaeology. However, constant monitoring of the earth's surface causes a huge influx of data of high complexity and high quality. To…

What are the manifestations, antecedents and consequences of the cognitive uncertainty experiences of social care professionals?

Promotor: R. Cramer

Discover the information activities for the MSc Political Theory: Legitimacy and Justice at Leiden University, including webinars, virtual open days, Q&A sessions and events for prospective students.

The global transition toward low-carbon energy systems and the rapid expansion of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, are reshaping how modern societies produce, move, and process energy and information.

Key publications of the Analytical BioSciences and Metabolomics group

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

This is the first reference work to describe the history of embroidery throughout Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent from the medieval period through to the present. It offers an authoritative guide to all the major embroidery traditions of the region and a detailed examination…

An important component of this master consists of extracurricular activities.

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

The Next444 project focuses on the future of interdisciplinary research at Leiden University.

The multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying artistic, literary, political and religious ideologies.

The adenosine receptors are proteins that reside in the extracellular membranes of cells. Activation of adenosine receptors plays a role in many physiological and pathological processes, such as immune responses and cancers.

Source: Nature Biotechnology, Volume 2014, Issue June (2014)

A new research line is the development of liquid biopsy fingerprints to predict early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) stage in human in readily accessible body fluids in human (in collaboration with: Dr. Geert-Jan Groeneveld, CHDR; Prof. Elga de Vries, Free University Medical Center; and others).

Leiden and The Hague are both typical student cities and have everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life.

This thesis investigates opinion dynamics on random graphs through the lens of the voter model, a classical interacting particle system used to describe how consensus emerges in networks.

For decades, this prize has highlighted rising scientific talent — young researchers who often go on to make their mark in the field. Here you can explore how the award began and discover the many promising scientists who received it over the years.

This Call for Proposals covers a wide range of research incubator ideas to stimulate research careers of early career female researchers at FGGA. Research incubator ideas may include various research themes and could concern different types of research projects.

You can follow Leiden University courses as a non-examination student, which means you can study without having the right to take examinations

Clinical development of drugs for central nervous system (CNS) disorders has been particularly challenging and still suffers from high attrition rates.

Promotor: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promotor: Todor P. Stefanov

Interactive exploration of large volumes of data is increasingly common, as data scientists attempt to extract interesting information from large opaque data sets. This scenario presents a difficult challenge for traditional database systems, as (1) nothing is known about the query workload in advance,…