This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Science with Sichuan University in Chengdu.

The Organ Art of the first female German concert organist and Bremen Cathedral organist and

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

The focus of the research lies in the approach of reducing, denying, or taking away essential elements of music making in order to let the musician become theatrical.

LIACS aims at being a diverse and inclusive research institute. To reach this goal, two instances are working on addressing diversity related issues.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University’s Faculty of Science with University of Tunis El Manar in Tunesia.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University's Faculty of Science with University of Pretoria in South Africa.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University’s Faculty of Science with the University of Alberta in Canada.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye, Prof.dr. S.D.M. White (MPA Garching)

This thesis studies theoretical surface chemistry within the field of heterogeneous catalysis.

Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media is dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, demonstrating the ways in which such archival artworks probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do.

The Education Office Astronomy supports all aspects of the Astronomy bachelor and master education programmes. Its main focus is on education quality assurance, student monitoring, education-related PR, student recruitment, job market orientation and alumni policy.

Maria Carmen Parafita Couto studies the impact of bilingualism and language contact on language structure, mostly the syntax of code-switching.

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

Renfei Bai is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Martijn Lemmen is a lecturer and PhD candidate/guest at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Martin Kroon is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

This thesis investigated how microphones and loudspeakers could become musical instruments.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: M.F.E. de Jeu

The following people are part of the Academia in Motion Steering Group.

Single-Molecule Microscopy (SMM) techniques constitute a group of powerful imaging tools that enable researchers to study the dynamic behavior of individual molecules.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University’s Faculty of Science and Sichuan University’s College of Mathematics.

Crisófia Langa da Câmara is a PhD student at Centre for Linguistics. She is Mozambican and has been working on Mozambican Bantu languages description; minority and endangered languages documentation, Linguistic Landscape, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Preservation and Morphology and Syntax of the…

docARTES is a doctoral programme for performers and composers. It offers a unique environment for critical reflection on musical practice.

Online cursus The Importance and Power of Music in our Society

Listening and Looking with dr. Janneke Wesseling and dr. Marcel Cobussen

This thesis focuses on the concepts of freedo and fixity as two central topics of my artistic research. I present, analyze. and contextualize four of my works which have explicit links to fleedom and fixify and which demonstrate the dynamic interrelationship between the two.

This thesis consists of three papers that are centered around the common theme of Hausdorff uo-Lebesgue topologies and convergence structures on vector lattices and on vector lattices and vector lattice algebras of order bounded operators.

This thesis studies operator-algebraic aspects of subproduct systems, a generalization of product systems of Hilbert spaces.

Tactile Paths is an artistic research project that aims to expand and articulate the feedback between notation and improvisation in experimental music.

Annelies Schulte Nordholt is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Jiang Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is currently involved in the NWO-funded project

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Science with the University of Pretoria.

Discover all the Leiden Science teaching talent that was part of this year's lineup.

Health Data Science Leiden University

In this on-line dissertation, jazz saxophonist Dick de Graaf investigates a variety of compositional and improvisational models and techniques in contemporary jazz and Western art music, and discusses possible applications of these materials in current jazz practices.

This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotoren: M.F.E. de Jeu, S.D. Silvestrov

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn, Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

Ambient sound is a standard term used by sound practitioners to denote the site-specific background sound component that provides a characteristic atmosphere and spatial information in a sound work.

Hydrogen fuel cells are expected to be pivotal in the energetic transition towards renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. However, their industrial scalability is severely hindered by the high cost and degradation rate of platinum catalysts, one of their key components. Addressing this…

For several years, contemporary composed music has been critiqued among others by funds, sponsors, and festival organizers for having lost contact with their audiences. This music has increasingly become a pursuit of a privileged, well-situated, and higher educated public, and is most often confined…

Autophagy is a fundamental degradative process, maintaining cellular homeostasis and functions in host defense against intracellular pathogens, including mycobacteria and Salmonella.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotores: M.F.E. de Jeu, B. de Pagter

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The basic concern that informs every part of the research is in wonder of what happens when sound happens as an aesthetic force. The emphasis of each query lies on the active occasion, the radical empiricism, the moment of encounter, how the sonic event comes to pass as aesthetic force.

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

Does Artifical Light at Night (ALAN) disrupt seasonal physiological and behavioral patterns in migrating freshwater fish?

Understanding DNA repair mechanisms is essential for advancing plant biotechnology and crop improvement. This study investigates how double-strand breaks (DSBs), induced by CRISPR/Cas systems, are repaired in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and how these processes influence Agrobacterium tumefaciens…