Faculty of Science and Engineering

“The only role I can play is myself”

Teun Dekker, the political philosopher and first professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Education in Europe, turns every lecture into a performance. The goal: reaching his students. Thursday 31st January he will deliver his inaugural lecture.

Sir Roger Penrose at the Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Faculty of Science and Engineering welcomes Sir Roger Penrose, emeritus Professor of Mathematics of the University of Oxford, for a two-day visit to Maastricht.

Five years KE@Work, more A-team than Beauty and the Beast

What makes the KE@Work partnership unique, and which philosophy is behind the programme’s collaboration?

Solid as a cloud

With his new project Solid, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, tries to give users back ownership of their data. The internet hasn’t developed in the way he intended it. Data science progresses at a dizzying pace – are the people in the driver’s seat aware of their responsibility? We asked Gerhard Weiss, Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Frank Thuijsman, Professor Strategic Optimization and Data Science.

Recipe book for bioplastic from sugar beet

How do you cook a sugar beet to obtain bioplastics? Ola Wróblewska answered this question in her dissertation, with with she earned the first ever doctorate at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials.

3D printing with PLA can become more precise and stronger

By using the compostable biobased plastic PLA, the process of 3D printing is becoming more and more sustainable.

Kateřina Staňková and team win $50.000 to outsmart thyroid cancer

Kateřina Staňková, assistant professor at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), co-led her team through a great challenge, resulting in a seed grant to advance their strategy to combat thyroid cancer.

Video impression on the Maastricht Europe Days

Two silver Reimagine Education Awards for KE@Work

KE@Work won a silver award in the category Best Employer-University Partnership during the gala ceremony in San Francisco.

ICIS project 'Smarterlabs' heading towards finale

Heading towards the end of the SmarterLabs project, the envisaged outcomes are getting concreter. The three dissemination workshops in Helsinki, Istanbul and Santander enriched the learnings of the team.

Young European high potentials visit AMIBM for Young European Talent 2018

The second edition of the Young European talent project was held in Limburg in which 50 top talents from 5 European countries participated.

Inspiration letter for City labs

Nicole Rijkens-Klomp and Christian Scholl presented the new 'inspiration letter for City labs' during the Citymakers Congress in Rotterdam.

Keuzegids Bachelors 2019: three UM Colleges stable at the top

KE@Work shortlisted for 2018 Reimagine Education awards

The honours path for bachelor students of the Data Science and Knowledge Engineering programme, KnowledgeEngineering@Work or KE@Work, is shortlisted for the 2018 Reimagine Education awards. The reputable Reimagine awards seek to reward education innovators from around the globe.

Physics booming at UM

Maastricht University is gearing up to conduct more research in the area of fundamental physics. “The aim is to put UM on the map as a physics institute, in the eyes of other researchers as well as the general public,” says Gideon Koekoek, who joined UM’s research group on gravitational waves in 2017.

UM and Dutch Embassy host Berlin Science Week event

Maastricht University (UM) is the only Dutch university to have organised an event together with the Dutch Embassy during the famous Berlin Science Week.

Navigating between uncertainty and disagreement

Friday, 2 November 2018 Dr. Joop de Kraker, professor of Sustainability Assessment at ICIS, gave his inaugural address.