Student Prizes 2023

48th Dies Natalis

Maastricht University celebrates its 48th Dies Natalis on Friday 26 January 2024. Every year, the best master's and bachelor's theses by our students are rewarded during the Dies Natalis celebration. They receive five hundred euros, a certificate and a small gift as a token of appreciation from our Rector Magnificus. 

You can watch the livestream here.

Dies Natalis 2023

Bachelor's Student Prizes

Twenty-two students completed their bachelor's degree in 2023 with a thesis that was labelled excellent by their faculty. They were celebrated during a live webinar hosted by our Rector Magnificus Pamela Habibović. Using the links below their names, you will find an "elevator pitch" from each student, plus a video in which the supervisor congratulates the lucky winner. 

Luisa_Knoben

Luisa Knoben

 Bachelor Arts and Culture

 

'Masking the Self: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Engagement with Masks, Diaspora, Aesthetics, and Identity in his Self-Portraits'

 

Jente_Leonie_Willems

Jente Willems

 Bachelor Biomedical Sciences


'The predictive value of carotid plaque burden on computed tomography angiography for recurrent ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack: The Plaque At RISK (PARISK) study'

Robin_Steinkohler

Robin Steinkühler

 Bachelor Business Analytics


'Curating Privacy Concerns: Optimizing Synthetic Data Generation for Machine Learning in Healthcare'

Leon_Ruter

Leon Rüter

 Bachelor Business Engineering


'Capturing the margin potential of biobased plastics in the food packaging industry
The impact of cost-plus and value-based pricing on the financial performance of bio-ethylene producers' 

Bas_Laarakker

Bastiaan Laarakker

 Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence


'Formalisation of Timed Systems in Coq' 

Remco_Poeliejoe

Remco Poeliejoe

 Bachelor Digital Society


'Artificial yet Adored: Exploring the Popularity of Virtual YouTubers amidst the Demand for Realness' 

Isabel_Brandsma

Isabel Bandsma

 Bachelor Dutch Law


'Ingrijpen in het DNA van het buitenbeentje - is kiembaanmodificatie ethisch?' 

Merle_Praum

Merle Praum

 Bachelor Econometrics and Operations Research


'Asymmetric Auctions: Understanding Valuation Heterogeneity and Equilibrium Dynamics' 

Kyra_Pauly

Kyra Pauly

 Bachelor Economics and Business Economics


'The Financial Impact of Enterprise Architecture Adoption' 

Jessica_Jassan

Jessica Jassan

 Bachelor European Law School
 

'Feminism in tort law: the harm principle and its failure to account for the tort needs of women' 

Evelien_Sterkenburg

Evelien van Sterkenburg

 Bachelor European Public Health

 

'Care(ing) for Central and Eastern European Labour Migrants: A Scoping Review' 

Nia_Raycheva

Nia Raycheva

 Bachelor European Studies


'Victims of Demographic Engineering: The Bulgarian Violence against Muslim Minorities during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)'

Esmee_Jong

Esmée de Jong

 Bachelor Fiscale Economie
 

'Dutch Conditional Withholding Tax: How does the Dutch conditional withholding tax on dividends affect tax planning of multinationals established in the Netherlands?' 

Maelle_Dickhoff

Maëlle Dickhoff

Bachelor Geneeskunde - Medicine
 

'Maëlle was awarded the prize because of her outstanding study results and the fact that she participated in the FHML Honours Programme' 

Vincent_Tadday

Vincent Tadday

 Bachelor Global Studies
 

'Sellout of Peacekeeping? Investigating the Effects of the Evolution of UN Policies on the Use of Private Security Companies in MONUSCO' 

Pim_Hovens

Pim Hovens

Bachelor Health Sciences
 

'Volume Outcome Association for Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy - A Meta-Analytical Approach' 

Lukas_Voing

Lukas Vöing

Bachelor International Business
 

'Unprecedentedly Irrational? The Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Investor Sentiment and Subsequent Stock Returns' 

Saskia_Rapp

Saskia Rapp

Bachelor Maastricht Science Programme

'Stereoselective Synthesis of Glycomimetics
Using the [4+2] Inverse Electron Demand Hetero Diels-Alder Reaction'

Hanna_Hoogen

Hanna Hoogen

Bachelor Psychology
 

'Maintaining Brain Health: The Impact of Physical Activity and Fitness on the Aging Brain - A UK Biobank Study' 

Lucas_Bastiaanssen

Lucas Bastiaanssen

Bachelor Tax Law
 

'Het dispositievereiste in het Belastingrecht - De rol van het vereiste' 

Lars_Niehaus

Lars Niehaus

Bachelor University College Maastricht
 

'From Reactive to Proactive: Exploring Parametric Insurance for Drought-Induced Food Insecurity' 

Iris_Buuren

Iris van Buuren

Bachelor University College Venlo
 

'Evaluating the safety of insects as an alternative protein source in cat feed: a case study in the European Union'