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As of 1 April 2023, Anique Hommels will be appointed as Professor of Sociohistorical Technology Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

The Centre for European Research in Maastricht and UM Campus Brussels often work together to create impact.

Elia Formisano, professor of Neural Signal Analysis at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience recently published a paper in Nature Neuroscience in collaboration with Bruno Giordano at Université Aix-Marseille, France and Michele Esposito, Giancarlo Valente. The title of the paper is Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioural and neural responses to natural sounds.

And if you are a bit like me, that title sounds quite intimidating. So, I met up with professor Formisano to talk about his findings.

As of 1 April 2023, Hylke Dijkstra will be Full Professor of International Security and Cooperation at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University.

ChatGPT’s ability to create plausible academic arguments asks serious questions about higher education. Walter Jansen of UM’s Centre for Teaching & Learning EDLAB and Peter Vermeer, chair of the Committee of Boards of Examiners, on how best to approach this new tool and safeguard the quality of education.

Professor Koen Schruers was set on studying schizophrenia after graduation – until he was asked to participate in PhD research on panic. He was fascinated. One in four people will suffer a panic attack at least once in their lives, and one in thirty will develop a panic disorder. The phenomenon can be studied with experiments: just the kind of research method that suits Koen. In his book Paniek en hoe het aan te pakken (Panic and how to tackle it) he offers some practical tips. One of the most important pieces of advice? Schruers: “Breathing into a paper bag does not work.”

International students are a continuous subject of discussion as minister Dijkgraaf is about to announce his plans regarding the official language to be used in study programmes (Dutch or English) and the influx of foreign students. What do they themselves think about these issues? At the invitation of student organisation Political Economy Society Maastricht (PES), rector Pamela Habibović talked with them on Tuesday evening.

Ellen Bastiaens and Perry Heymann recently published an article in Knowledge and Process Management reflecting on the key elements for establishing a community of practice.

The Maastricht Center for Robots (MCR) is thrilled to announce the official launch of the "Social Robotics" project! This exciting initiative aims to enhance long-term care for individuals with mental disabilities. For this project, MCR is collaborating with a consortium of organizations to bring regional implementation of social robotics to fruition. 

This conference aims to compare and critically assess the developments in European Criminal Law and International Criminal Law. The conference sets out to analyse differences and similarities with regard to a variety of different aspects of criminal justice in a globalized world.