1,533 search results for “phase transition” in the Public website
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Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change
In Shimmering Images, Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change.
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Mind the gap: gas and dust in planet-forming disks
Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond
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Towards circular and energy-efficient management of building stock
Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.
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PhD Theses
A full overview of THEOR PhD theses.
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Stakeholder engagement as a conduit for regulatory legitimacy?
Stakeholder engagement practices are on the rise in regulatory governance. This raises an important question regarding implications for regulatory legitimacy. Engagement mechanisms are not by default legitimizing: Even when initiated to tap into an array of ‘benevolent’ desiderata, unless carefully…
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LOCVS. Memory and Transience in the Representation of Place From Italic Domus to Artistic Environment
This study links up the concept of place with memory, with the idea of transience and the transition from life to death.
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Automata-theoretic protocol programming
Promotor: F. Arbab
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Low-temperature spectroscopic studies of single molecules in 3-D and on 2-D hosts
Spectroscopic studies on fluorescent single molecules in organic condensed matter does not only provide information about the molecule itself, but also its near environment. By suppression of phonon-induced broadening of spectral lines through cooling to low temperatures, small changes in the spectral…
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Renewable Energy
The transition to new and renewable energy sources should be completed by 2050. Researchers in various disciplines at Leiden University are conducting unique research that will help us make this transition and reduce CO2 emissions.
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SMALL Savannah : an information system for the integrated analysis of land use change in the Far North of Cameroon
Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan
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Biochemistry in different phases of the migraine attack
PhD defence
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Energy
What is Leiden University doing to reduce energy consumption and move away from fossil energy? Where can you find information about energy? And what changes can you make yourself?
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Smoothly breaking unitarity : studying spontaneous collapse using two entangled, tuneable, coherent amplifiers
The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that a measurement collapses a wavefunction onto an eigenstate of the corresponding measurement operator.
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Oncode Accelerator
Providing each cancer patient with the right treatment remains a challenge. Oncode Accelerator aims to change this by innovating the way we develop cancer treatments, thus ensuring the patient is at the heart of the process. Leiden University, the LUMC and other partners will implement this new way…
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The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group
The development of space resource activities is happening now. In the absence of a clear framework to govern these activities, there is a need to examine the concepts that are being discussed in order to ensure that they meet existing treaty obligations regarding on-orbit operations and space resource…
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Student projects
We invite you to develop your academic skills by joining our research group and develop your own short term project in the bachelor phase. We offer longer term research projects for master students.
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Research Support Team
The Research Support Team (RST) at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs provides comprehensive support and timely advice to researchers in identifying relevant grant schemes or funding systems.
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Tracing the evolution of protoplanetary disks
Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L.B.F.M. Waters (UvA), Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)
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Janine Ubink
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.m.ubink@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7493
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Political Economy and Public Policy
Many of the big challenges of the 21st century (climate change, international migration, financial instability, socio-economic inequality) find their origins in the organisation of the global economy. Any solution to the world’s big challenges therefore requires forceful policy interventions at the…
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Current studies
We always have several ongoing studies running in our labs. Below you can find information about each one.
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Leiden Law Practices for first year students
Leiden Law Practices (LLP)
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Research
The main focus of our research programme is on adolescence, a key transitional period in human development. The programme puts emphasis on combined experimental behavioural and neural analysis of normative transitions and deviations in adolescent development.
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Understanding the Endless Steppe
Otrar as a Case Study for a 6-10th century Transition Zone
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Fathers' sensitive parenting enhanced by prenatal video-feedback: a randomized controlled trial using ultrasound imaging
The transition period in which men become fathers might provide an important window of opportunity for parenting interventions that may produce long-term positive effects on paternal care and, consequently, child development. Existing prenatal programs traditionally focus on maternal and infant health…
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Case studies
The research that is united in the Liveable Planet programme, touches upon a wide range of aspects of human life. The goal is to deepen and expand the scope and to connect more researchers. The following case studies are examples of current research projects.
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Redox Interconversion between Metal Thiolate and Disulfide Compounds
In the last decade, the redox interconversion between metal thiolate and disulfide compounds has been extensively investigated for copper, but not for other transition metal ions.
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The Infrared Spectrum of Massive Protostars
We have conducted a full spectral line survey of the 3-13 micron region of two massive protostars, AFGL 2591 and AFGL 2136, for the first time at high spectral resolution.
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Memory, Modernity, and Children’s Literature in Japan
On 1 September 2022 Afke van Ewijk successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Old English Renewed
Tracing Transitional English in the Twelfth Century
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Laminar Technology and the Onset of the Upper Paleolithic in the Altai, Siberia
The Altai region has yielded a cluster of Middle and Upper Paleolithic stratified sites that have been recently excavated using a multidisciplinary approach.
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Bakti and Sayan traditions among the Tenggerese people in East Java: the role of indigenous institutions in integrated elderly care development
This research delves into the unique cultural approach of the Tenggerese people, an Indigenous community in East Java, Indonesia, regarding elderly care. It focuses on their traditional practices of bakti (‘filial piety’) and sayan (‘mutual aid’), deeply ingrained in the community's lifestyle and va…
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Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction toward liquid fuels : on heterogeneous electrocatalysts and heterogenized molecular catalysts
With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.
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After graduation
It might seem far away, but the end of your studies is often sooner than you think. Luckily, the International Relations and Organisations (IRO) specialisation provides the ideal basis for continued academic education and a professional career.
- Stakeholder-led adaptation strategies to climate change
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Team
meet our staff
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Women’s Involvement in the Leftist Guerrilla Movements in Iran and Turkey during the 1960s and 1970s
This project compares and contrasts how and why several Turkish and Iranian women were compelled to participate in leftist guerilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Unlocking the chemistry of the heavens
How are the building blocks of life formed?
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Searching by Learning: Exploring Artificial General Intelligence on Small Board Games by Deep Reinforcement Learning
In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…
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The Social Cognitions of Victims of Bullying: A Systematic Review
Sanne Kellij and colleagues systematically reviewed 142 articles, examining evidence for three hypotheses on the relation between victimization and social information processing.
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Publications
For a full overview of the publications of the Translational Immuno-Pharmacology group, visit the Google Scholar page.
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Reactivity on interstellar ice analogues
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The chlorine chain study
A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.
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Education
The information below concerns courses that our group teaches in Leiden.
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Using AI to improve the Design-Make-Test cycle with Galapagos
Researchers at LED3 are working together with biopharmaceutical company Galapagos to develop software for use in early drug discovery (funded by NWO). This software is able to design molecules with several simultaneously optimized characteristics and will also take prediction reliability into consideration…
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Monuments on the Horizon
On 10 January 2013, Quentin Bourgeois (Cum Laude) graduated with his thesis on the origin of barrow landscapes. Side Stone Press published his dissertation
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Saba
Excavations on Saba took place between 1987 and 1992, and then in 2001 and 2002.
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Compartilhando Coleções e Conectando Histórias
Sharing Collections and Connecting Histories
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About Leadership
To help us shape the future and achieve our vision and ambitions at Leiden University, we need everyone at the university to show leadership.
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Venue
The Kroese-Duijsters symposium will be held in the Gorlaeus Building of the Faculty of Science.