255 search results for “veni” in the Public website
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Twisted light and helical structures
Wolfgang Lüffler
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Formation of synthetic fuel: new insights!
Navarro Paredes
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Elucidating the catalytic properties of gold
How does CO adsorption on gold promote its own oxidation and the oxidation of other organic molecules?
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Graphene as biological sensor
How distance-dependent is graphene as biological sensor?
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Favourable developments for numbers
What is the relationship between probability experiments and cryptographic applications?
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Quest for new antibiotics
Gubbens
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Guiding blood vessels with laser light
How can lasers control the growth of new blood vessels?
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Concrete arithmetic between geometry and number theory
Bruin
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From molecules to planets: Exploring the chemical heritage of solar systems
Walsh
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Spherical mosaics from different tiles
What are 'defects' and mechanical properties of mosaics of different shapes of tiles?
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The eel, a swimming paradox
Why is the swimming efficiency of the European eel higher than predicted?
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Why don't drugs make it to the market?
How can we extend the drug residence time to combat diseases more effectively?
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Unravelling the chlorine production reaction
How can we make the production of chlorine cheaper and more friendly for the environment?
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Towards a comprehensive and predictive theory of catalysis based on simple structure-activity relations
Can we tailor catalysts at the atomic scale by means of high-school chemistry and geometry rules?
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Microscale Analytical Tools
Enabling volume-restricted metabolomics using next-generation microscale analytical tools.
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Revealing the origins of solar systems: examining the formation of proto-planetary disks and binary stars
What is the origin of solar systems?
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From the First Galaxies to the Peak of the Star Formation History
How did galaxies form? How did galaxies evolve?
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Probing a new volume regime in metabolomics with capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry
Ramautar
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Faster number theory, safer cryptography
Developing a method to simplify polynomials in complex curves
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Awards and Grants 2017
An overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2017, as well as special appointments and royal distinctions.
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Challenging the paradigm of filthy and unhealthy medieval towns
Mapping sanitary infrastructure in large urban societies in the Low Countries, 1200–1900
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Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries
From ca. 1540 to 1600, thousands fled the war-stricken Southern Low Countries to the British Isles, Germany, and the Northern Low Countries. Research on this displacement crisis, central to the formation of the Netherlands and Belgium, reflects 21st-century debates on migration and language: language…
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Fixing history: Ancient cultural practices of stone sculpture in central Nicaragua
For three millennia, carved sculptures were ubiquitous among ancient peoples in the Americas. Sculpted in stone, metal or wood, they developed into the well-known totem poles, colossal Olmec heads, royal Maya stelae and golden Inca statues.
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Barriers to terrorism: why most extremists never become terrorists
When does radicalization not lead to terrorist attacks?
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Cuban and Samaná Haitian Creole as windows on creole genesis
This project aims at documenting the Haitian Creole varieties spoken by Haitian migrants in Cuba and the Dominican Republic’s Samaná Peninsula.
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The Enforcement of European Union Law
How to explain the apparent high success rates of the EU infringement procedures, which are the major tools for enforcing EU law, against the member states?
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Microbial hitchhiking
How do nonmotile microbes leverage communal motility?
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Conquering the fortress: New strategies for the treatment of tuberculosis
Can we exploit the cell death machinery of the host to develop new host-directed anti-TB treatments?
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Construction and exploration of modular goldnanoparticles for glycan-based immune-interventions of worm infections
Chiodo
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Remembering Dissent and Disillusion in the Arab World
This project investigates generational dialogues about the legacies and memories of labour, student and communist movements in the Arab world. The research focuses in particular on video and installation art by young makers born in the 1980s that address the generation of their parents and the events…
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About
Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia
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Postdoctoral Research
It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding in order to advance in their career.
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The writing on the rocks: Thamidic and Arabia's linguistic past
This project aims to open up the pre-Islamic linguistic history of Arabia through the systematic study of the Thamudic inscriptions within a digital humanities framework.
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Eurafrica: African perspectives, 1917-1970s
How did African actors engage with the idea of Eurafrica?
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The serosa: an evolutionary novelty in insect eggs
What is the function of the insect serosa?
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Righting and Rewriting History: Recovering and Analyzing Manuscript Archives Destroyed During World War II
Archives were a common target during the Second World War, and hundreds suffered damages. Among these archival losses, the losses to medieval manuscript collections stand out.
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Postdoctoral Research
It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding to advance in their careers.
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Working at LUCAS
Read more about working at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
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Prosody in whispered speech: retrieving alternative cues to pitch
The goal of this study is to systematically investigate how intonation (speech melody) is conveyed in whispered speech.
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Network
LeiCenSAA is dedicated to the study of Ancient Arabia and the sharing of knowledge and expertise on this topic. Thefore it aims to collaborate closely with other research in the field.
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Protecting democracy in Europe
It can no longer be taken for granted that EU member states are stable democracies. What should the EU do to protect democracy given increasing democratic backsliding in some member states?
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The intimate voice of the Russian Avant-garde: adapting the aesthetic self and the rise of Socialist Realism
This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.
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Vital Art: Transgender Portraiture as Visual Activism
In what ways can visual art play a vital role in countering the discriminating stigma experienced by transgender communities?
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The Public Dimension of International Investment Law and Arbitration
How can international investment law and arbitration take account of the public interest in, and more broadly, the public dimension of, the relations between foreign investors and host States ?
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The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600
This book explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas.
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Book on Immigrant Integration: “The Civic Citizens of Europe” by Moritz Jesse
Moritz Jesse, Associate Professor of EU Law at the Europa Institute, has published his book, “The Civic Citizens of Europe: The Legal Potential for Immigrant Integration in the EU, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom”.
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Research project The Power of Evidence
Evidence-informed policy-making is crucial for good governance. Yet, despite the abundance of evidence from research and evaluation available to decision-makers, we know little about the actual influence of evidence on government policies. The ‘Power of Evidence’ (PoE) research programme, directed by…
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Research per university
What follows is a survey of existing programs and current projects for each of the participating universities.
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Female Spies or 'she-Intelligencers': Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage
By analysing neglected (continental) spy centres and integrating these groups of female intelligencers into the traditional, male-orientated historical narratives, this project will proceed towards a gendered history of early modern espionage.
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Counting and Accountability. The Politics of Numbers in the democracy of Classical Athens
We live in a data-drenched society awash with numbers. An inhabitant of the democratic polis of Athens (5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.) increasingly found himself surrounded by numerical data. This project aims to analyze the communicative functions and the political meaning(s) ascribed to these public…