News

  • Great news for the care of overweight and obese children

    The combined lifestyle intervention from Your Coach Next Door (YCND) will be structurally funded by the Dutch basic health insurance, from January 1, 2024 on. Both the combined lifestyle intervention and the deployment of trained central care providers will be included in the basic health insurance!

    Professor Anita Vreugdenhil
  • “Change the work, not the workers”

    Professor Fred Zijlstra is set to retire in May. How does he look back on his career? What is his take on current developments in the field of work and organisational psychology? And how can we, as a society, best organise work—now and in the future?

    Fred Zijlstra
  • Plasma for a more sustainable chemistry

    Prof. dr. ir. Gerard van Rooij will deliver his inaugural lecture titled "Out of Balance" on 02 June. With this lecture, he officially begins his tenure as professor of plasma chemistry at Maastricht University.

    Gerard van Rooij
  • Soft landing in Vienna

    After several rocky years, Maastricht University alum Lea Vink has found her feet in Vienna. Professionally, she is taking new steps at the crossroads of aviation and organisational psychology. And on a personal level, luck has smiled on her since her transition from man to woman.

    Lea Vink
  • Flying career start for a swing-dancing academic

    In September Cengiz Akbulut was made head of the laboratory of the new Stem Cell Research University Maastricht (SCRUM). Here he discusses multiculturalism, the origin of life and his love of swing dancing.

    Cengiz Akbulut
  • Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus turns 10

    The Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. The campus now houses more than 115 companies and institutes where over 11,000 professionals and also over 11,000 students work together on valuable innovations within healthcare, medicine and life sciences.

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  • One size does not fit all! Personalized diet offers health benefits

    “In the field of diabetes 2 and cardiovascular disease prevention, the results of our research are a big step in the right direction". Does personalized nutrition have positive effects on health? "The answer to this question is a resounding yes," says Ellen Blaak, professor of human biology and...

    Ellen Blaak, Departmenthead Human Biology Department, NUTRIM