Veni grants for Jacco de Vries and Daan Westra
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a prestigious grant to two talented researchers from Maastricht University this week. These so-called Veni grants of 280,000 euros are intended for researchers who have recently obtained their doctorate who are still at the beginning of their scientific career.
Dr Jacco de Vries: The unbearable lightness of B-decaying
The existence of our universe is begging for the presence of a new force of nature. Recent excitement at CERN gives us a first clue, but to find out exactly which force this could be Jacco will study the rarest decays ever observed, employing modern graphics processing units.

Dr. ing. Daan Westra: The Works in Healthcare Networks!?
Healthcare organizations cooperate in various goal-directed networks to keep the sector sustainable. Yet, many of these fail, at the expense of valuable resources. Daan conducts the first large-scale empirical network study, in which he identifies effective configurations of structure, functioning, and contextual characteristics and develops a network-(self)assessment tool for practice.

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