Student Prizes 2025
Maastricht University celebrates its 50th Dies Natalis on Friday 23 January 2026. Every year, the best bachelor's and master'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. Take a look at the winning bachelor's theses here.
Henry Bogdanowicz
Bachelor Arts and Culture
Greta Thunberg and Palestine Solidarity: Intersectional Climate Justice Meets the Colonial Limits of Acceptable Activism in German Media
Yessin Schoutens
Bachelor Biomedical Sciences
The Effect of Sacral Neuromodulation on Functional Connectivity Between the Periaqueductal Gray and Pontine Micturition Center in Overactive Bladder Patients
Pola Bereta
Bachelor Business Analytics
The Shape of Consumer Behavior: A Symbolic and Topological Analysis of Time Series
Mats Schmidt
Bachelor Business Engineering
Deep Learning as decision support in early-stage venture capital
Martina Enrich
Bachelor Circular Engineering
Data-Driven Energy Optimization Strategies for Operational Biomethane Plants: A Circular Engineering Perspective
Sofia Gavasi
Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Towards Explainable AI: Reasoning With Controlled Natural Language
Delnaz Yaghouby
Bachelor Digital Society
Re-Analogue: The Revival of Analogue Media in a Digital Generation
Sarah Eggen
Bachelor Dutch Law
‘Marginal, technical, non-influential, and mainly, uninteresting’? The values underlying (dis)continuity in the Dutch legislative process
Primo Beekhuis
Bachelor Econometrics and Operations Research
Finite-Sample Bias Corrections for Local Projections: Post-Estimation Corrections vs. Long-Difference Estimation
Isabel Backes
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics
Evaluation of Gross Value Added Forecasts from German Research Institutes - The Value of Expert Collaboration
Paul Boldron
Bachelor European Law School
The falsehood of military necessity: a critical approach to international humanitarian law's accommodation of war
Nadia Tamminga
Bachelor European Public Health
Effects of Cost-Sharing on Moral Hazard in European and OECD Health Systems: A Systematic Literature Review
Puming Zhang
Bachelor European Studies
Tracing the Rebel: The Influence of National Interest on Members of the European Parliament’s Rebel Voting Behaviour
Cas van Haperen
Bachelor Fiscal Economics
Compliance costs of taxation: Analysis of compliance costs and their relation to direct and indirect taxes
Marlena Bonin
Bachelor Global Studies
Manifestations of Affective Polarization in Protests: A Multimodal Qualitative Inquiry of In-Group/Out-Group Affective-Discursive Practices during the 2025 German Anti-Right-Wing Protests
Hilde Abendanon
Bachelor Health Sciences
The influence of positive emotions or cognitions on pro-environmental behavior: A systematic review
Moritz Strobel
Bachelor International Business
The impact of private equity on the risk-return profile of a traditional stock and bond portfolio
Maria Mierzejewska
Maastricht Science Programme
Engineering CAR Macrophages (CAR-Ms) from Human Expanded Potential Stem Cells against Hepatic Cancer
Nina Bruynen
Bachelor Medicine
Student Prize selected on the basis of an exceptionally good Science Participation (WESP) internship and excellent study results
Palina Sinitsa
Bachelor Psychology
The Electric Field Fingerprint of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Eveline van Niekerk
Bachelor Tax Law
The liquidation loss regime under Pillar 2: an empty shell or still effective?
Kayla Degrand
University College Maastricht
Less is more: Can a single arousal metric tell us the whole activity of the brain?
Luna Mitrović
University College Venlo
Exploring The Senotherapeutic Potential of Polyphenols in Ageing and Disease: A Literature Review