Universiteit Maastricht

Overzicht onderzoeksinstituten

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Institute Domain
School for Public Health and Primary Care - CAPHRI Public health and primary care, focusing on health care innovation, ranging from prevention to rehabilitation and leading to the improvement of the population’s health
School for Cardiovascular Diseases - Carim Cardiovascular diseases: thrombosis and hemostasis; cardiac function and failure; vascular biology
School for Oncology and Developmental Biology - GROW (Epi)genetic, cellular and (micro) environmental factors and mechanisms underlying normal (embryonic and fetal) and abnormal (cancer) development, with emphasis on translational research aiming at innovative approaches for individualizing prevention, patient diagnostics, and treatment
School for Mental Health and Neuroscience - MHeNS The complex interplay between basic brain mechanisms, brain/neurocognitive function and psychopathology, with emphasis on prevalent psychiatric, neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions
School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism - NUTRIM Health benefits and risks of nutrition and physical (in)activity in metabolic and chronic inflammatory diseases
School of Health Professions Education - SHE Learning and innovative learning environments; assessment and evaluation

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School of Business and Economics
Institute Domain
Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organisations - METEOR Accounting and Information Management; Development and Utilization of Human Resources; Econometrics, Finance and Monetary Economics; Economic Theory, Behaviour and Computing; Marketing and Supply Chain Management; Technology, Innovation and Industrial Dynamics
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market - ROA Dynamics of the Labour Market; Education and Occupational Career; Training and Employment
United Nations University - Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology – UNU-MERIT Micro-based evidence research on innovation and technological change; The role of technology in growth and development; Knowledge and industrial dynamics; Innovation, global business strategies and host country development; The governance of science technology and innovation

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Faculty of Law
Institute Domain
Institute for Corporate Law, Goverance and Innovation Policies - ICGI Corporate law, governance and innovation policies
Institute for Globalization and International Regulation - IGIR International Economic and Trade Law
Institute for Transnational Legal Research - METRO Comparative and transboundary legal research
Maastricht Centre for Human Rights Globalisation and Human Rights; Criminal Law and criminology in multinational perspective
Maastricht European Private Law Institute - M-EPLI European Private Law
Montesquieu Institute European parliamentary systems
Maastricht Center for Taxation European and International Taxation
Maastricht Centre for European Law The Maastricht Centre for European Law

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Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience
Institute Domain
Clinical Psychological Science – CPS /
research center Experimental Psychopathology (EPP)
Experimental research in psychopathology, esp. Clinical psychology; behaviour medicine; food & addiction disorders; forensic psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience – CN /
Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre – M-BIC
Human perception and cognition, in combination with the development of advanced methods in neuroscience
Work and Social Psychology – WSP Work and organisational psychology in combination with applied social psychology
Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology – NP&PP Brain-behavior relationships

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Institute Domain
Research Institute for Arts and Social Sciences - FASoS Politics and Culture in Europe; Science, Technology and Society; Arts Media and Culture; Globalisation and Development
Centre for Gender en Diversity - CGD Gender as a formative social, cultural, economic and symbolic system
Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio - M-VKS The Virtual Knowledge Studio aims to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the creation of new scholarly practices, and to stimulate reflection on e-research.
Limburg Centre for Social History - SHCL Research on social and economic history of Limburg; Historical border studies

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Faculty of Humanities and Sciences
Institute Domain
Department of Knowledge Engineering - DKE BioMathematics and BioInformatics (BMI); Robots, Agents and Interaction (RAI); Networks and Strategic Optimization (NSO)
International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development - ICIS Sustainable Development (SD) in combination with Integrated Assessment (IA) tools; integrative studies of causes, effects and mutual interlinkages between economic, environmental, institutional and socio-cultural processes in the field of globalization, climate change, innovation and governance
Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research - TIER Research in the field of Evidence Based Education

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Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience & Faculty of Law
Institute Domain
The Maastricht Forensic Institute - tMFI Forensic Sciences

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