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Johan Adriaensen, Anna Herranz Surrallés, Aneta Spendzharova and Sophie Vanhoonacker are joining a new international research network that will study how geopolitical tensions and changing attitudes towards free trade are reshaping trade politics in North America and Europe.

The project aims to foster a more effective and resilient EU enlargement policy. CitiSense focuses on enhancing public understanding of the security, economic and societal impacts of enlargement by placing citizens at the centre of research, dialogue and policy development.

Joris van Zundert of the Computational Literary Studies department at the Huygens Institute has been appointed Professor by Special Appointment in Computational Humanities at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences with effect from 1 September 2026.

The workshop represents a new direction in Matthew’s research, building on his recent interest in the ethics of precision agriculture.

This week, Akudo McGee, PhD candidate in the LIMES project, tells us about how and why she made her data FAIR.

This week, our Dean of Research, Sally Wyatt, tells us about the importance of making research data FAIR, the challenges we may face when making research data FAIR and how she has made her research data FAIR.

In this new series, several testimonials of FASoS researchers will be shared that tell about their experience with making data FAIR. What parts did they find beneficial to them? What were the hurdles they encountered?

Anna Harris will document the improvised inventions that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ferenc Laczó will bring together interviews with leading historians on major turning points in contemporary Europe.

Because diagnostic criteria have historically been based on male characteristics, many women only receive an autism diagnosis later in life. Yet little is known about how they experience this life-changing event, the stereotypes they encounter, or the support available to them.

Michiel Bron, who obtained his PhD at FASoS, has won the inaugural William Burr Prize in Nuclear History for his dissertation The Petro-Atom . The prize recognises outstanding nuclear history research and includes a book contract with McGill-Queen's University Press.