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PhD thesis by Ibrahim Shehata

It is with great pleasure that we announce that MACCH member Anna de Jong successfully defended her PhD on June 24, 2025.

We are happy to share the publication of the Veldgids Geuldal. Over beheertwijfel in een veranderend landschap. The veldkrant was written by Claartje Rasterhoff and Christian Ernsten, in collaboration with Erik Wong and Thijs de Zeeuw, and published by MACCH in October 2025.

Eleven consortia from various scientific disciplines are set to launch projects of great value to science. The Dutch government is making a total of €197 million available for this purpose. Scientists from Maastricht University (UM) are closely involved in seven of the eleven projects.

PhD thesis by Florian Gamper

MUMC+ is main applicant in the NCC: a unique research infrastructure with data from almost half a million Dutch citizens.

Maastricht University is participating in the FASTTRACK project, which has been awarded a €21.7 million NWO Roadmap grant. FASTTRACK will enable extremely fast detection of particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider.

MCICM recently launched a new website: Playing the Digital:
Explora­tions in Music, Machines, and Meaning.

Anton de Kom University in Suriname invited EDLAB to support its move towards Problem-Based Learning (PBL) within the Faculty of Social Sciences. To meet this request, Annechien Deelman from EDLAB delivered a week-long programme in early October 2025.

Luc Amkreutz is the new Eugène Dubois Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Maastricht University. "I see this chair as a unique opportunity to highlight the multidisciplinary power of archaeology and to show how science and society can reinforce each other."