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Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

The academic year 2024/25 has started, marking 30 years since the founding of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, 30 years of innovation in research and education and 30 years of endless curiosity for psychology and neuroscience.

The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) is an international faculty with students and staff from diverse cultural backgrounds. Our curiosity drives us to explore the broad field of psychology from a biological and cognitive perspective. By using the Problem-Based Learning method of teaching we encourage a similar curiosity in our students by handing them the tools to discover the world of the human brain.   

Celebrating 30 years of FPN | United in Curiosity

FPN Experience Days

What’s it like to be a Psychology student at Maastricht University? Find out during the FPN Virtual Experience Day! You’ll attend a lecture and participate in a tutorial group. You’ll be guided by advanced Psychology students who are happy to answer all your questions about studying and student life. 

Sign up for a Virtual Experience Day via the link to the right. 

Talk to our Student Ambassadors

Do you have a question about our study programmes or about student life in Maastricht? Our Ambassadors are happy to answer them. You can contact them on Instagram, where they post weekly about their experiences during their master's studies. You can also sign up for our info pack. You'll receive a brochure, we'll send you updates on our programmes and open days, life at UM and much more.

FPN News

A holistic Bachelor in Brain Science

Voor het UMagazine gingen we in gesprek met Peter De Weerd, hoogleraar en programmaleider van de nieuwe bachelor Brain Science. 

Portrait Peter De Weerd

Understanding everyday hearing | Elia Formisano | ERC Synergy Grant

Elia Formisano, professor of Neural Signal Analysis, together with his colleague Bruno Giordano at CNRS, France, have received the highly coveted Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. The project is titled Natural Auditory SCEnes in Humans and Machines (NASCE): Establishing the Neural...

Elia Formisano

My voice, your voice, our voice | Sonja Kotz

Our voices are unique, and a lot of our personality and character is embodied in our voice. But what if we lose connection to our own voice, what if we think it is someone else’s?

Sonja Kotz

Carer of carers

Alum Saara Martinmäki volunteered for the Red Cross, and during high school helped drowning survivors overcome their fear of water. She came to Maastricht University in 2015 to pursue a master’s in Clinical Psychology. Today, she conducts research on the wellbeing of humanitarian aid workers and...

Saara Martinmäki

How do we imagine? ERC Advanced Grant for Prof. dr. Rainer Goebel (FPN)

FPN’s prof. dr. Rainer Goebel has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of € 2,5M for his research project Reading the Mind’s Eye: AI inspired personalised brain models of mental imagery. Goebel is among 255 researchers (out of 1829 applications in all domains) in Europe to receive the grant, and he is...

Professor Rainer Goebel
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience Universiteitssingel 40
6229 ER Maastricht
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