News and events

Thomas Cleij appointed as new Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Executive Board of Maastricht University (UM) has appointed Prof. dr. Thomas Cleij as the new dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering.

A knowledge agenda for a healthy urban environment

In the soon-to-be completed first phase of ZonMw project "Making space for health in the city: towards a South Limburg knowledge agenda", knowledge gaps were identified about how our urban living environment influences health. A whole range of methods was employed. Let's highlight two methods that were a bit more out-of-the box.

Stefan Hild appointed professor of Gravitational Research; UM joins Nikhef

Maastricht University (UM) has appointed Prof. dr. Stefan Hild as professor of Gravitational Research. The move paves the way for UM to become a full member of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef).

Odd one out: student presents bachelor thesis at esteemed conference

Philippe Debie is literally going the extra mile to present his bachelor thesis at a renowned international conference in Santiago, Chile.

ICT care solutions for patients with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Disease

As part of the European consortium behind the ICT4Life project, Dr. Stelios Asteriadis and his group developed personalized care solutions for patients with neurodegenerative disorders.

GECCO – not preaching but doing sustainability

GECCO is UCM's sustainability committee and their aim is to provide fellow students with green solutions to everyday problems.

Healthier gut flora thanks to food processing waste

Waste from the food processing industry can be used to improve the gut flora of people with obesity, according to the findings of a study by Carlota Bussolo de Souza, who received her PhD on the topic at Maastricht University (UM) last Wednesday.

Siemen shares his ENLEB experience

Siemen Brinksma started as a researcher at UM for the ENLEB project. In December he ended his valuable research and left for a world tour.

The Road to Maastricht

What would you ask someone who, in the words of the organizers, played a major role in the story of science in the last 70 years?

“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