Zoekresultaten
InSciTe experiences spurt
28-03-2023
… translate medical innovations to practical applications, among other things. Three years after it was founded, the biomedical department of the institute has outgrown its location. Construction will start this year on new labs and cleanrooms … InSciTe experiences spurt …
… UM researchers who were able to go abroad this year with a Research Mobility Award from YERUN. This scholarship, from the Young European Research Universities network (YERUN), aims to stimulate research collaboration. And it does, according to their experiences. Eighteen universities are currently affiliated with YERUN . Meeting patients in Sweden Samaneh Ghazanfari’s career path so far Samaneh Ghazanfari is an expert in tissue engineering and biomaterials. After completing a PhD at the … University in Sweden, joining the group led by professor Folke Sjöberg, the director of the Burn Center and the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. “Two weeks is not a long time, but I knew exactly what I was looking for: a group experienced with clinical wound dressing studies and the opportunity to meet patients.” That, plus the very welcoming atmosphere in Linköping, made the trip a big success. Inspirational confrontations with real patients Ghazanfari accompanied … for months”. The insights range from the reasons clinicians choose a particular dressing to the requirements they want to be met by an innovation. “You can develop a complex multi-functional wound dressing, but if that doesn’t fit their daily wound experiences, they won’t use it. That’s why it’s so important to keep interacting with the clinic in this kind of translational research.” How the collaboration will continue in the future Her network has expanded, and she and her Linköping colleagues …
Onderzoekers van ICIS, het wetenschappelijk instituut voor duurzame ontwikkeling van de Universiteit Maastricht, zijn verleden jaar in kader van het EU Horizon 2020 project ENERGISE, op
First graduates University College Venlo
28-03-2023
… for unique CVs Zoekresultaten On the 6th of July Mirte van den Boogaard and Augustin Poncelet are among the first graduates of the bachelor’s programme at University College Venlo (UCV), which kicked off three years ago. They look back on a memorable experience, a pioneering period in a small community where everyone knew one another. And where students are given the freedom to compile their own curriculum. UCV was launched at Maastricht University’s satellite campus in Venlo in September 2015. Venlo is one of the major food and logistics hubs of the Netherlands, giving students first-hand professional experience and the skills employers are looking for. Students select their own courses based on their own interests, enabling them to study issues related to food, nutrition and health in an interdisciplinary manner. In last year’s Elsevier ranking, … Brian Megens (photography) … On the 6th of July Mirte van den Boogaard and Augustin Poncelet are among the first graduates of the bachelor’s programme at University College Venlo (UCV), which kicked off three years ago. They look back on a memorable experience, a pioneering period in a small community where everyone knew one another. And where students are given the freedom to compile their own curriculum. … On the 6th of July Mirte van den Boogaard and Augustin Poncelet are among the first …
Last year researchers from ICIS, Maastricht University’s institute for sustainable development, created an inventory of projects seeking to make a sustainable change to people’s energy consumption.
Stronger together
12-04-2024
… things going badly when we are partying with friends or when we are with our families over Christmas. But in the support group, no one worries about your relationship becoming awkward or tells you what to do – they just listen and share their own experiences.” While unique and deeply personal, the experiences are not that dissimilar from each other: feeling isolated away from home, feeling anxious in a new and different culture, feeling overwhelmed by the pressure to perform academically, etc. “Sometimes it just helps you to see that other …
… and statistics. I decided to do the entrepreneurship minor because both of my parents are business owners and I grew up in that environment.” You’re 27 and before starting your studies you worked in Los Angeles for a couple of years. Was that work experience useful during your minor? ”Well, after working for other people I found out I’d rather die than work for somebody else. I had a great internship last summer, at a company in Heerlen. A fantastic company, it was great, but I never want to do …
Maxime got an offer from Medtronic
28-03-2023
… From my history background, it’s quite a long bridge to build and I see Master Yourself as one of the pillars under that bridge. As an ambassador, I help organise the sessions, I mentor students, I visit companies and more. It’s great work experience.” How Maxime got a job offer from Medtronic “One of the workshops that I participated in myself was at Medtronic in Heerlen. The vice president of IT was also there, which I thought was great. In groups of four, we worked on a business case … an internship and if that went well, a job offer would follow. One of my group members is going to do that. But I’m more going for a consultancy job in Brussels anyway, so although I felt very honoured, I declined.” And what has he gained from the experience “Before Master Yourself, I had no prior experience with company contacts, networks, business cases and the like. I’m currently applying for jobs now and then, and I notice that it runs much more smoothly. You’ve been inside a few companies, you’ve experienced different cultures. If I have to …
… Her research focuses on network and pathway-based integrative systems biology to study the interaction between immune and metabolic systems. She also shared with us that she enjoyed conference travels, networking with other researchers, and teaching experience. Martina told us that bioinformatics and systems biology for her are closely related to data science as they are data intensive fields. They constantly deal with large datasets, could be molecular data that they measure in cells to … for their field to use and apply them on the data. For example, AI, artificial intelligence, and machine learning approaches are regularly applied to our complex datasets nowadays. Coordinating Amrapali Zaveri Award Furthermore, Martina shared her experience with Birgit Wouters and Tiffany Leung in coordinating the Amrapali Zaveri Awards for Data Science. Martina shared with us the initiative and background of the Amrapali Zaveri Award, which is to honor Amrapali to recognize inspiring … and role models, truly in the spirit of Amrapali’s work and personality. She told us the award wants to recognize students and researchers that not only make a difference in the field of data science but also in the community. She also shared her experience in coordinating the award for two years and the stories and work of the winners. Listen to the podcast Follow us @DSMindsets on Twitter and Instagram Please rate us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform. If you are a member …
More fun in the legal classroom
28-03-2023
… article of law.” Akkermans: “The classroom of the future will be more virtual. This can contribute to the Maastricht University ‘style’, with close relationships in small groups.” But, he says, the physical classroom will not disappear. “The on-campus experience, meeting in person and doing things together, will always be there.” By: Hans van Vinkeveen (text) and Hugo Thomassen (photography). … The work lawyers do, the way they do it – indeed, the entire labour market – is changing radically. This …