• Profile
• Mission
• Rankings
• Organisational structure
  • Faculty Board
  • Faculty Council
  • Dean
  • Director of Operations
  • Faculty Office
  • Programme committee
  • Examination Board FPN
  • Scientific director
  • Departments
  • Ethical Committee Psychology
  • Research Committee
  • Other groups and committees
  • Organisational chart of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience
• Staff
• FPN Media
• Contact
• Complaints Committee

Organisational structure

The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) has two main tasks: to organise and carry out education and research. Ultimate responsibility rests with the dean, who sits on the Faculty Board together with the two members for education and research. The board is advised by a democratically elected representation body, the Faculty Council.

The board has charged the majority of education and research tasks to two institutes: the education institute and the research institute. All staff at the FPN belong to one of the faculty’s four departments or the Faculty Office. For more information on the education institute, the research institute, the departments and the Faculty Office, see the organisation chart (online soon). To find someone in particular, go to staff.

The psychology bachelor’s programme has a specific Maastricht profile, both in terms of programme content and education method. As students advance, the content increasingly moves towards either cognitive or biological psychology. All Maastricht University programmes work according to the principle of Problem-Based Learning (PBL). The FPN also has a strongly international orientation, in that it offers part of its education in English. Click for more information about the programme.

The FPN’s research operates in the fields of cognitive neurosciences, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology, work and social psychology, and clinical psychology. Themes within these fields include applied MRI research; speech and language; ADHD; autism; development and ageing; the brain and learning; the effect of substances (e.g. medications) on behaviour and driving ability, learning and memory, and fear and depression; people and work; legal psychology; alcohol and other addictions; eating disorders; and prevention (e.g. HIV/AIDS).

The research is organised in four departments: Clinical Psychological Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Work and Social Psychology, and Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology.