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Four FASoS researchers awarded prestigious NWO Veni grants
- Researchers
We are proud to announce that Simone Schleper, Flora Lysen, Laura Ogden, and Mirko Heinzel, have each been awarded a Veni grant by the Du

Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Johan Adriaensen and Odile Felkamp awarded NWO Open Competition M grant
- Researchers
Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Johan Adriaensen and Odile Felkamp have been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant of €400,000 for their resear

Europe: arm(s) in arm
- Researchers
Europe’s plans to increase its military capacity are controversial; not so much the if as the how.

FASoS awarded NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant for project on early bird photography and conservation
- Researchers
We are pleased to announce that Pauw Vos has been awarded an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant for the project “Narratives of the Nest

Aagje Swinnen awarded NWO Open Competition M
- Researchers
Aagje Swinnen (FASoS) and Sarah de Mul (Open University), have been

Other news
Dissertation prize 2022 for Marie Labussière
During the 47th Dies Natalis in January 2023 Marie Labussière received the 2022 Dissertation prize for her thesis called 'Native-born but not yet citizen: Citizenship and educational outcomes of children of immigrants in the Netherlands’.

Eliza Steinbock awarded JPI Cultural Heritage & Global Change grant
Eliza Steinbock has, together with a transnational group of colleagues, been awarded a competitive European Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage grant for the project _Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives_ (PERCOL). The project will run for 24 months between June 2023-2025.

Adam Dixon wins Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2023
The editor and co-editors of the Journal of Contemporary Asia have awarded Adam Dixon the prize for the best paper published in 2022

Tullio Viola awarded YERUN mobility grant
Tullio Viola has been granted a Research Mobility Award 2022 by the Young European Universities Research Network (YERUN). The award will be used to finance a one-week stay at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London in January 2023, where Viola will build interdisciplinary collaboration around his project on cultural transmission in digital media.

Imogen Liu awarded YERUN mobility grant
Imogen Liu has been granted a Research Mobility Award 2022 by the Young European Universities Research Network (YERUN). The funding will support a one-week stay in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp next year where she will develop her next research project on Chinese financial infrastructures in Europe.

EUI fellowship for Giuseppe Zaccaria
Giuseppe Zaccaria has received an offer for a fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. From 1 September 2022 until 23 December 2022, Giuseppe will be a PhD research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the EUI.

CORE fellowship for Mariëlle Wijermars
Mariëlle Wijermars has been awarded a CORE Fellowship from the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies for the 2022/2023 academic year. As a fellow at the Collegium, Mariëlle will conduct a research project on ‘The Platformisation of Authoritarian Control in Russia’.

EU Horizon grant for Giselle Bosse
The EU has awarded a Horizon grant to 14 research institutions, including Maastricht University. Associate professor Giselle Bosse will lead a work-package on “Democratisation and Economic Modernisation in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes”.

Eliza Steinbock wins NWO grant
Together with The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, associate professor Eliza Steinbock has won an NWO ‘Museum Grant’, which facilitates scientific research in the museum sector and is awarded to museum employees who carry out research related to the collection.

Nantke Pecht nominated for AVT/Anéla Dissertation prize
Nantke Pecht has been nominated for the AVT/Anéla Dissertation prize. This prize is awarded each year to the best dissertation in the field of linguistics. In cooperation with the UM video team, Nantke Pecht has made a video about her dissertation.

Costas Papadopoulos and Katleen Gabriels appointed members of the Maastricht Young Academy
Assistant professors Costas Papadopoulos (Literature & Art) and Katleen Gabriels (Philosophy) have been appointed at the Maastricht Young Academy (MYA). Their membership will begin on the day of the Dies Natalis on 28 January 2022 and will run until the Dies Natalis in 2026.

Maud Oostindie nominated for ISO Teacher of the Year Award
Maud Oostindie has been nominated by Maastricht University for the Interstedelijke Studenten Overleg (ISO) Teacher of the Year Award.

Harro van Lente reappointed member Health Council
Harro van Lente has been reappointed as member of the Health Council of the Netherlands (Gezondheidsraad) for another 4 years (2022-2025). The Health Council of the Netherlands is an independent scientific advisory body whose legal task it is to advise the Dutch ministers and Parliament in the field of public health and health/healthcare research. Harro van Lente works for the Committee on the Identification of Environmental and Health Issues.

Félix Streicher awarded German-French History prize
Félix Streicher has been awarded the Annual History Prize of the German Historical Institute Paris for the best master’s thesis submitted to a French or a German university in 2020. The thesis examined German-Luxembourgish encounters and social interactions in the city of Bitburg under Luxembourgish occupation rule (1945–1955).

Camilo Erlichman launches Occupation Studies Research Network
Camilo Erlichman, together with Christopher Knowles (King’s College London), has launched a new interdisciplinary research network which aims to promote the exchange of ideas and act as a hub for the global community of scholars who are working on military occupation as a form of rule.

Anna Harris elected to Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy
The members of the Executive Committee (EC) will represent the GYA worldwide engaging, for example, with presidents of universities and science academies, government ministers as well as with funding bodies and foundations like the Global Research Council, the Wellcome Trust or the Volkswagen Foundation.

Emilie Sitzia awarded Comenius Leadership Fellowship
Emilie Sitzia has been awarded the Fellowship for her project ‘Senses-based learning’. The aim of the Comenius programme is to stimulate educational innovation in higher education.

Bernike Pasveer invited for a fellowshop at NIAS
Bernike Pasveer has been invited by the director of The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) for a fellowship at NIAS in Amsterdam. She will be part of a theme-group on the topic of Refuge & Belonging.

Bilisuma Dito wins WOTRO Impact and Innovation Grant
Bilisuma Dito has received a grant of €50,000 from the NWO WOTRO Impact and Innovation grant scheme for the project ‘Only Time will Tell: How the Well-being of Stay-behind Migrants’ Children Develops Over time’.

Angélique Janssens appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau
Angélique Janssens, endowed professor in Historical Demography at FASoS, has been awarded a royal honour: she has been appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau!

Alarm Day for Science
In order to draw attention to the structural underfunding of universities in the Netherlands, students, teachers and other stakeholders have sounded the alarm on 6 April. Lies Wesseling and Harro van Lente were the organisers.

Podcast Series "Stories from Brussels"
Did you know that Maastricht University has a large academic community living and working in Brussels? Are you curious to learn how fellow UM staff, researchers and students have been experiencing the current lockdown? Find out how your UM colleagues are managing to combine their research with digital teaching or hear from UM students living in Brussels and their stories.
The UM Campus Brussels podcast series 'Stories from Brussels' aims to connect people from different UM communities in order to share personal experiences on what it's like to live and work in Brussels. Listen to UM Campus Brussels as we chat informally with UM researchers, alumni and students about what they are working on, how they have adapted, and how they see the future.
