Faculty of Science and Engineering

An algorithm-mad surfer

In 2016 Marta Dávila Mateu, now a graduate of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, moved to Maastricht, a city completely unknown to her. Her choice turned out to be a double-edged sword. She found the lack of skate culture depressing, but enjoyed her studies, especially the focus on the mathematics behind data.

UM students dive into COVID-19 at the nano level

Healthy or sick? The tomato knows what to do

Maastricht University to enter quantum computing collaboration with IBM

Maastricht University will become the first Dutch university to enter the IBM Q Network. The goal of the collaboration is to develop the high-performance computation power required for two next-generation advanced physics detectors.

Brightlands Future of Farming Institute: driving innovative strength in North Limburg

Maastricht University is setting up a new institute to shore up Limburg’s innovative strength and contribute to the technological innovation that is needed to find answers to the major social issues in the agri-food sector.

Groundbreaking research project AMIBM starts in fourth package NWO Open Competition - XS

Maastricht University researcher, Jordy Saya, working at AMIBM is one of the 24 lucky ones whose research project 'Learning from Nature to Synthesize Peptides and Proteins' was honored by NWO.

IDS researcher wins grant about food health claims

What can we learn about the health claims that manufacturers make about foods by applying data science?

AMIBM: University collaboration at Brightlands

Eighty years ago, DSM opened its central laboratory for fundamental research in Geleen. Now the old lab is part of the Brightlands Chemelot Campus. This coming fall, the Festival Feel the Chemistry will look back on eighty years of innovation and will also look ahead to the future. Maastricht University is one of the founders of the campus and is closely involved in the developments. It’s at the heart of the campus, as is the Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials.

Judith Kamalski appointed as Managing Director BISS

Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Judith Kamalski as its new Managing Director.

Mathematics to help achieve bite-sized evolutionary trees

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a KLEIN-1 grant to Dr. Steven Kelk. He will explore the mathematics behind shrinking the sometimes impossibly huge evolutionary trees.

Crossing borders at the Grensmaas

The Grensmaas project has been running since 2008 and is the largest river restoration project in The Netherlands.

Virgo and LIGO reveal new and unexpected populations of black holes

The research collaboration LIGO/Virgo, which leads global research into gravitational waves has presented another major discovery.

Data Science and Knowledge Engineering bachelor's programme changes name

As of 1 September 2020, the programme is named Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

First-year bachelor’s students rescue kidnapped professor

150 unsuspecting students took part in an alternate reality game last Monday. Within 30 hours of starting their introduction to the bachelor’s programme at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, they collectively defused a bomb and emerged as heroes.

“I try to make the world a better place”

Don't stop me now

Dr. Kateřina Staňková and Prof. Yvonne van der Meer each secured millions of euros in research funding during UM’s cyberattack. What was that like? And how does the post-Brexit, pandemic reality now affect them as newly-established coordinators of European research networks?

Publication in Nature Research

The framework of this research allows tissue cell type composition to emerge as a potential marker measuring homeostasis that can be utilized in prospective studies in regenerative medicine.