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  • Adriana Iamnitchi likes to be challenged

    Adriana Iamnitchi’s career appeared like a bed of roses. She served as a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. Nonetheless, she sought out new challenges and moved to Maastricht, where she focused her research on social media.

    Adriana Iamnitchi
  • Daily dose of nuts improves memory

    Healthy eating is not only good for the body, but also for the brain. 

    Research by Kevin Nijssen shows that elderly people who eat two handfuls of nuts every day had better memory and brain perfusion

    Kevin Nijssen research noten
  • A gift from heaven

    Research on women’s health, childhood obesity, a cancer screening tool, anxiety in older people with dementia, severe brain damage—Maastricht University researchers affiliated with the University Fund Limburg work on a wide range of topics. What do they have in common? They are bursting with...

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  • Learning to stay calm in life-threatening situations

    Can neurofeedback help police recruits become more psychologically resilient? In its search for an answer, the Special Intervention Service of the Central Unit of the Netherlands Police approached Andreas Bressler, PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience. His research focuses on improving emotion...

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  • Professors Hooghe and Marks: champions of multilevel governance

    For the first time in the history of Maastricht University, an honorary doctorate will be awarded to a married couple: Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks. Together, the professors devised and developed the concept of multilevel governance, which they have been championing for more than 30 years. “We’re...

    Hooghe en Marks