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… someone is at risk of poverty. Nowadays, pension funds also benefit from data science as it allows them to majorly improve their data analysis and consequently learn more about their customers and what they need. Work at BISS In line with one core theme of this podcast, BISS is a very interdisciplinary work environment that connects all faculties of Maastricht University. Colleagues with very different backgrounds come together which can be challenging as Lisa explains. In the beginning, you have to find common ground for example with the language you use and be aware that colleagues … worked on very interesting projects such as “AI in the classroom” about AI and education but they also found out how you can measure the weight of a cow using pictures. There are also projects on AI and health, poverty and debt. On the BISS website and their LinkedIN profile you can find more information and up-to-date news or job and internship vacancies. Follow us @DSMindsets on Twitter and Instagram Please rate us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform. If you are a …
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… report’s recommendations for additional civil legislation, the Minister for Legal Protection Sander Dekker promised last week to come up with a bill that would compel partners cooperate with a religious divorce in order to combat marital captivity. Research project on marital captivity A study on divorce and religion has been underway at Maastricht University since 2013, as part of the research project ‘Marital captivity: Building bridges between religion and legislation’. This project is supported by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Social partners are the Atria Institute on gender equality and women’s history; the Stichting Landelijke Werkgroep Mudawwanah, which promotes the legal position of Moroccan women; the Stichting Proefprocessenfonds Clara Wichmann, which …
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De hybride onderzoeker
12-04-2024
… in 2016 bij zowel het Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) als de cardiovasculaire onderzoekschool CARIM. Daarvoor studeerde hij al af binnen beide disciplines in Maastricht en momenteel werkt hij voor beiden, én bij Philips Research. “Ik mag het als wiskundige eigenlijk niet zeggen, maar één plus één is in dit geval echt drie.” Matthijs Cluitmans (1985) promoveerde in 2016 bij het Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) én CARIM op het proefschrift ‘Noninvasive reconstruction of cardiac electrical activity: Mathematical innovation, in vivo validation and human application’. Sindsdien werkt hij op drie plekken: bij CARIM, bij DKE en bij Philips Research in Eindhoven. De hypothese is dat deze afwijkingen een rol spelen bij de plotse hartdood waaraan soms voetballers en andere ogenschijnlijk gezonde mensen compleet onverwacht overlijden. Om die theorie verder te onderzoeken startte recent de … En Cluitmans, na zijn promotietraject nog meer gegrepen door dit type discipline overstijgend onderzoek dat in de toekomst patiëntenzorg hoopt te verbeteren, mocht blijven. Tegenwoordig werkt hij drie dagen voor CARIM en twee dagen voor Philips Research in Eindhoven. Daarnaast heeft hij een nulaanstelling bij DKE, waar hij iedere twee weken een dag fysiek aanwezig probeert te zijn. Want mensen persoonlijk ontmoeten, weet hij inmiddels uit ervaring, is één van de sleutels tot een succesvolle …
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… Zoekresultaten 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. Together with 10 research partners in the EU Horizon 2020 project ENERGISE , they gathered information on more than 1,000 projects and initiatives in 30 European countries. “This information is now available to everyone in an online database , the largest of its kind … says Julia Backhaus, the coordinator of the ICIS ENERGISE team. As part of the European Week of Sustainable Energy, the database will be presented this week in Brussels. Julia Backhaus (1982) is a graduate of University College Maastricht and the FASoS research master’s in Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology. She has been working on sustainable energy for 10 years, including at the energy research institute ECN in Amsterdam. She has been a project officer at ICIS since 2012 and is also …
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Episode 4: Computational Social Sciences
28-03-2023
… Dr. Anda Iamnitchi Zoekresultaten In our new Episode of the DSMINDSETS podcast, we invited Prof. Anda Iamnitchi to talk with us about her research. She recently started a new position as Chair of Computational Social Sciences at the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University. Professor Iamnitchi talked to us about her hobby of Argentine tango dancing in milongas and her talent … by the political climate. She said that, although she had quite a strong background in Mathematics and Physics, she entered Computer Science with very little knowledge about computers but relished the challenge to learn and master the subject. Her research in Computational Social Sciences Prof. Iamnitchi introduced to us her fascinating research on distributed systems and how information spreads in social networks and in social media platforms such as Twitter. In particular, she discusses a simulated experiment she recently conducted with colleagues about the conditions under which a …
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Episode 1: Ethics and AI
28-03-2023
… Katleen Gabriels Zoekresultaten In our very first DSMINDSETS podcast episode, we invited Dr. Katleen Gabriels, a moral philosopher from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to talk to us about her career, interests and research. During the opening of the academic year at Maastricht University, she also was recognized this year with the prestigious Edmond Hustinx prize for science. In the first segment of the podcast, Dr. Gabriels shared with us her hobby of … from her professional activities. She also told us about how she became interested in ethics and philosophy which all began with a quite different dream of becoming a journalist and a dabble into documentary filmmaking! Dr. Gabriels then described her research interests in teaching morality to machines as well as online shaming and abuse. She argued in her books "Regels voor Robots" and "Conscientious AI" that technology is not neutral and that potentially biased human decision-making can influence … episode. Stay tuned for the next one! Listen to podcast … In our very first DSMINDSETS podcast episode, we invited Dr. Katleen Gabriels, a moral philosopher from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to talk to us about her career, interests and research. During the opening of the academic year at Maastricht University, she also was recognized this year with the prestigious Edmond Hustinx prize for science. … In our very first DSMINDSETS podcast episode, we invited Dr. Katleen Gabriels, a …
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… Pedro Hernández Serrano Zoekresultaten In this new DSMINDSETS Podcast episode we invited Ana Vaniqui . Ana worked as an Innovation Physicist at Maastro Clinic for many years where she is also very involved in the research projects. Maastro Clinic is a top recognized clinical institution that provides patient care with radiotherapy and also does a lot of research in the field of clinical radiotherapy. Introduction Before Ana started her work at Maastro Clinic, she did her PhD at UM where her thesis was about Pre-Clinical Radiotherapy and a Bachelor in Physics at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. As an physics undergraduate, she worked in the nuclear and medical field already where she gathered a lot of experience in the fields of nuclear medicine, radiotherapy and radiation protection. This shaped her career path and drove her research interests more into the medical field. She started her PhD on pre-clinical radiotherapy in Ireland and then finished it in Maastricht. Radiotherapy in simple terms (Pre-clinical) radiotherapy in general has many links with biology and focuses …
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Making Clinical Sense
28-03-2023
… "Medical educators have unbelievably creative ways of teaching their students; for example I have read about cut out oranges in socks to teach the stages of dilation during birth…" In her project “Making Clinical Sense,” anthropologist Anna Harris is researching how medical skills are taught and learnt. Anna Harris from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences talks about her project Making Clinical Sense , a comparative study of how doctors learn in digital times. How to describe how something feels The research brings back memories of her own medical studies in her native Tasmania. “I’m fascinated by the process of learning – the fieldwork takes me back to how I discovered the human body in a medical way.” It is a sort of craft, and she draws … is an assistant professor in the Department of Technology and Society Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She tries to make sense of the extraordinary and ordinary worlds of medical practice through comparative and collaborative research. Her current work, looking at the role of technologies in training doctors, is funded by the European Research Council. UM places great value on the Skills Lab, where advanced simulations are only the latest addition to a variety of …
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… Mathematics at Maastricht University Zoekresultaten The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is home to several outstanding departments and institutions covering education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as well as the liberal arts and sciences. … The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is home to several outstanding departments and institutions covering education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as well as the liberal arts and sciences. … The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is home to several outstanding departments and institutions covering education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as well as the liberal arts and sciences. … Math at the Faculty of Science and Engineering …
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… Zoekresultaten Why and how do some female child carers in Lesotho manage to stay in school despite being responsible for running a household? This was the question that researcher Brenda Yamba, originally from Zambia, wanted to answer. She defended her PhD at Maastricht University last June. Melissa Siegel (1981) was born in the USA. She is a professor of Migration Studies and Head of Migration Studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT, where she manages several migration research projects, coordinates the Migration Studies specialisation as part of the master’s in Public Policy and Human Development and heads the diploma programme in Migration Management. She also leads the research on migration and development at the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). Brenda Yamba (1967) was born in Zambia and studied at the University of Zambia. She completed her PhD in June 2017 in Maastricht, …