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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.

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.

Hooray! The 1,500th Vitrobot was recently built. This remarkable device helps scientists to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and COVID-19. The Vitrobot is now used in hundreds of laboratories worldwide, but its roots lie right here – at Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus.

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

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

The agriculture and horticulture of the future require smart innovations, sustainable cultivation methods, and resilient crops. At Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, all of this comes together in Brightlands Next Generation Farming. Here, research is conducted, but above all, solutions are developed...

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.

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.

PhD thesis by Florian Gamper