Agenda: PhD defence calendar
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18Jan2019Read more
New methods to guide and store light
10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Optical resonators compress and store light and are instrumental in providing control over the flow of light and its interaction strength with matter - a control required for many technologies involving ...
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18Jan2019Read more
Detecting the fluorescence of single molecules
11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Because of its potential for observing rare events, single-molecule fluorescence detection has proved useful in the investigation of catalytic reactions. Dongdong Zheng focuses on the study of organic reactions ...
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18Jan2019Read more
Cytokine Production
12:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony
On 18 January I.S. Hansen will defend the PhD thesis 'Fc Receptor Activation Controls Cytokine Production by Human Antigen-Presenting Cells'.
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18Jan2019Read more
Reproductive tactics of bulb mites
13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony
In a number of animal species two male types can be distinguished of 'majors' and 'minors' that use different reproductive tactics. Generally majors use pre-copulatory attributes such as weapons or ornaments and ...
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18Jan2019Read more
Characteristics of metastatic breast cancer
14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony
On 18 January C.D. Savci Heijink will defend the PhD thesis 'Genomic Characteristics of Metastatic Breast Cancer'.
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22Jan2019Read more
Models for analysing road traffic intersections
10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony
The vast majority of urban traffic intersections are priority-based unsignalised intersections, in which major roads have priority over minor roads. Performance analysis of this type of intersection is traditionally ...
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23Jan2019Read more
The revival of the Baroque violin
10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Mimi Mitchell explores the revival of the Baroque violin. Through archival research and interviews with the earliest ten pioneers, she shows how they reintroduced the baroque violin to the concert stage, how they ...
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23Jan2019Read more
Assembling state and citizenship in Jerusalem
14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony
In this doctoral dissertation Lior Volinz explores how, and to what end, state security actors pursue security pluralization and privatization in Jerusalem and what the implications of these processes are for the ...
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24Jan2019Read more
Analysing crystal symmetries
10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Ana Oliveira Silva studies two specific problems in the physics of condensed matter: charge and orbital ordered states and edge states in 1D crystals. She also studies electronic states that are localised near the ...
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24Jan2019Read more
Impact of stress on memory mechanisms
14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Exposure to stress can have a string impact on learning and memory. Sylvie Lesuis studies the effects of experiences earlier in life on cognitive decline related to ageing or Alzheimer's disease. She also ...
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25Jan2019Read more
Sustainable use of phosphorus
10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Phosphorus is essential for all forms of life. It cannot be substituted and is indestructible as it is a chemical element. Each year, 263 million tons of phosphate rock is mined, but only a fraction makes it back ...
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25Jan2019Read more
Active perception in multi-camera networks
11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Yash Satsangi investigates the challenges involved in active perception for tracking people in multi-camera networks.
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25Jan2019Read more
State security and political subjectification in Nairobi
12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony
After the terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall in September 2013, the Kenyan security sector experienced an increased demand for security services. Private security personnel, police, residents and various ...
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25Jan2019Read more
Dutch doctors & dying: do doctors’ personal views influence their professional care at the end of life – and should they?
13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony
On 25 January, K. ten Cate will defend the PhD thesis 'Dutch doctors & dying: do doctors’ personal views influence their professional care at the end of life – and should they?'
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25Jan2019Read more
Complement in multiple sclerosis
14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony
On 25 January, I. Michailidou will defend the PhD thesis ‘Complement in Multiple Sclerosis’.
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29Jan2019Read more
The many faces of extreme poverty
14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Anika Altaf studies extreme poverty, examining its structural causes. She investigates the mechanisms that determine whether people are included in or excluded from development interventions. She focuses specifically ...
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30Jan2019Read more
Effects of bankruptcy on employees
13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony
In the Netherlands employees enjoy a high level of protection, but this ceases when companies go bankrupt. Job van der Pijl studies the consequences of bankruptcy for employees, and investigates situations in which ...
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30Jan2019Read more
Work identity: is what you do who you are?
14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Changes in work activities over time can result in employees feeling that what they do no longer reflects who they are professionally. By focusing on what employees do, Hannah Berkers assesses whether particular ...
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31Jan2019Read more
Consequences of wax-resin linings for seventeenth-century paintings
14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Emilie Froment explores under what conditions and to what extent wax-resin linings may have altered the surface appearance of seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings. The aim is to enable conservators to ...
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01Feb2019Read more
Dealing with agressive behaviours of clients in residential institutions
11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony
The aim of Maartje Knotter's resaerch is to acquire better insight into the nature of responses of staff towards clients with intellectual disability showing aggressive behaviour. She identifies factors that may ...
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01Feb2019Read more
Real estate market liquidity
13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony
Dorinth van Dijk explores the role of market liquidity in real estate assets, focusing specifically on the Dutch residential and US commercial real estate markets. She develops new ways of measuring real estate ...