Research projects
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Belonging, Representation, Creolization
Focussing on the social and cultural history of baseball in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this research project analyzes how the sport has played a role in processes of belonging, discrimination and exclusion.
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Centre Connecting Humans and Nature
Centre Connecting Humans and Nature (CCHN) studies people’s connectedness with nature in different contexts and over the human life course.
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EBRAINS
EBRAINS is a new digital research infrastructure (RI), created by the EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP), to foster brain-related research and to help translate the latest scientific discoveries into innovation in medicine and industry.
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Synergizing Sustainability
This project aims to better understand how policy-making for agricultural development in the Sahel results in synergies, as well as frictions and trade-offs between different development goals, such as agricultural development and food security.
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The digital welfare state: between care and control
We explore the shifting paradigms in the governance of socially marginalised individuals, from the 'neo-liberal' to the 'people-centered' or 'humanitarian' paradigm, through criminal and administrative sanctions law, in the context of digitalisation.
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Breaking Borders
Researching the transatlantic dimension to socialist discussions in the early 20th century, this promotional project analyzes the idea of international solidarity between socialists from Europe, the Caribbean and North America.
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EBI: Engineering Business Intelligence
A novel generation of Industry 4.0 algorithms offers an opportunity for considerable evidence-based value creation in Dutch Process Industry, allowing a more comprehensive and real-time view on process performance.
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From Coercion to Consent: Sexual Violence and Female Empowerment in medieval Dutch and French Songtexts
This project investigates the themes of sexual coercion and consent in medieval songtexts about sexual encounters.
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PhD position – Risk Based Investment & Operation
In this PhD project the focus is on uncertainty quantification in grid calculations.
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PhD project “Uncertainty quantification of models for temperature of power cables”
For underground power cables, the maximum current is determined by the cable temperature. The current method of determining this maximum is overly conservative.
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Alliander cases at mathematical PhD modelling camp
In the PhD Modelling camp, PhD students and Postdocs from various backgrounds work for a week on problems posed by industry.
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Graph Neural Networks – PhD
PhD project on redirecting power in situation concerning maintenance and outage of the energy grid. Research is done by using graph neural networks.
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Neuromorphic Scientific Computing: Towards New Hardware
This project will quantify the actual and potential energy reduction of scientific computing with current and near-commercial neuromorphic hardware and benchmark the potential of new neuromorphic hardware platforms for scientific computing.
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Bettering nature’s approach
Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 is a promising approach to offset carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In this project, Roithova's team studied how the 3D architecture of catalysts affects the conversion of CO2 to cleaner substances.
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The Paramaribo Ward Registers
In this project data from the Paramaribo Ward Registers (1828-1846) will be made available as a FAIR database that can be used for both scholarly research and by a wider public for family history.
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Multilingualism at school and in society
In this project, an (online) workshop will be developed in which students' (10-12 years old) language and cultural awareness will be appealed to by introducing them to their own language potential.
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Finding de-escalation strategies
This project investigates what expectations language users have of conflict, of resolving disagreements and of helping out, by further developing a Twitter-corpus to examine how norms and values play a role in online interaction.
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Multilingual corpora
On the basis of multilingual corpora an analytical tool will be developed and tested in this project in which mode switch (as opposed to code switch) is operationalised.
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Automatic analysis of metaphor in Covid communication
This project aims to contribute on a line of research of metaphor usage in Covid communication by making the developed metaphor identification tool more available, as well as exploring and optimizing automatic source and target domain identification.
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RNA Sequencing of the Neuromuscular Junction in FUS-associated ALS
The project's goal is to gain a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underlie neuromuscular junction defects in ALS in order to identify potential therapeutic targets.