Programme director
gavin.hazell@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Gavin Hazell

Dr. Luisa Bortesi
Chair educational programme committee + courses BBM1002, BBM1006
Profile and publications
luisa.bortesi@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Assoc. Prof. Yvonne van der Meer
Courses BBM1002, BBM1006
Profile and publications
yvonne.vandermeer@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Jules Harings
Course: BBM1003, BBM1012
Profile and publications
jules.harings@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Prof. Romano Orrù
Course: BBM1010, BBM1004
Profile and publications
r.orru@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Dr. Katie Saralidze
Course: BBM1009, BBM1015 and project periods and master thesis
Profile and publications
k.saralidze@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Katrien Bernaerts
Course: BBM1007
Profile and publications
katrien.bernaerts@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Ali Ghannadzadeh
Course: BBM1005
Profile and publications
ali.ghannadzadeh@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Gavin Hazell
Programme director Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
gavin.hazell@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Prof. Ilja Arts
Course: Systems Biology
Profile and publications
ilja.arts@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Dr. Mike Gerards
Course: Biology and Physiology
Profile and publications
mike.gerards@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Rachel Cavill
Course: Mathematics of Biological Systems/Machine Learning and Multivariate Statistics
Profile and publications
rachel.cavill@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Wouter Huberts
Course: Modelling Biosystems
Profile and publications
wouter.huberts@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Michiel Adriaens
Course: Systems Biology/Experimental Design and Data Management
Profile and publications
michiel.adriaens@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Aaron Isaacs
Course: Research Project 1
Profile and publications
a.isaacs@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Jordi Heijman
Course: Cardiovascular Systems Biology
Profile and publications
jordi.heijman@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Stef Zeemering
Course: Dynamical Systems and Non-Linear Dynamics
Profile and publications
s.zeemering@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Judith Peters
Course: Fundamental and Systems Neuroscience
Profile and publications
j.peters@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Marian Breuer
Course: Modeling Metabolism
Profile and publications
marian.breuer@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Domenica Dibenedetto
Course: Computational Neuroscience
Profile and publications
domenica.dibenedetto@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Martina Kutmon
Course: Network Biology
Profile and publications
martina.kutmon@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Dr. Egon Willighagen
Course: Scientific Programming
Profile and publications
egon.willighagen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Dr. Michelle Moerel
Course: Master Thesis Systems Biology
Profile and publications
michelle.moerel@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Isma Zulfiqar
Course: Research Project 2
Profile and publications
isma.zulfiqar@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Which tasks will you have?
Support in the preparation of recruitment activities, such as Open Days and Experience Days
Updating information materials
Take care of our mailbox study-fhml
Acting as a host/hostess during events
Analysing and market research
Processing evaluations
Assist with work for the department Marketing and Communications
We are looking for someone who has:
Good communication skills, verbal and written English and Dutch (or German)
You are a talented organiser and an effective planner
You are flexible
You are representative
You are creative and you have well-rounded knowledge concerning communication (experience with social media is a plus)
You are a first- or second-year bachelor's student at FHML
Working conditions
This function at the department Marketing and Communication is available as of 1 October 2021 and for 8 hours per week (working days in consultation). The department Marketing and Communications is responsible for the recruitment for prospective bachelor- and master’s students and is engaged with internal and external communication issues. It is an assignment for two years and a probationary period for 1 month and a salary in line with the standard for student-assistants.
Interested?
To apply, please send your motivational letter and CV to events-fhml@maastrichtuniversity.nl. Deadline is 8 September 2021.
If you have any questions, please contact Sabine Claessens sabine.claessens@maastrichtuniversity.nl or 06-23771746.
UM Data Science Research Seminar
The double degree master’s programme in International and European Tax Law (American Specialisation) of Maastricht University and University of Aruba offers separate courses to those interested in learning more about certain topics related to international tax law. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a certificate of achievement.

Courses that are now open for registration:
Transfer Pricing and Attribution of Income
Global and EU Perspective on Consumption Taxes
The courses start in April; deadline for registration is March.
Course dates & deadlines for registration
Information about the courses
Admission requirements
Software from the Lab
Case Law Explorer
Case Law Explorer is a software application that allows non-technical users to conduct network analysis to find landmark cases.

Lawnotation
Lawnotation is an open-source software platform that allows for the labeling of legal documents, calculating the agreement levels between multiple annotators, the preprocessing of documents, and the sharing of data and materials with other users.

TrackerControl
TrackerControl is an open-source Android privacy app that allows to study and block tracking of app use by tech companies such as Google and Facebook. To detect tracking, TrackerControl combines the power of the Disconnect blocklist, used by Firefox, and of our in-house blocklist, created from analysing ~2k apps!

GraphDoc
GraphDoc is a free, open source, and user-friendly graphical interface that allows building decision trees without any installation. The output can be pasted or loaded into Docassemble, a free and open-source expert system for guided interviews. The codebase can be found here.

Data from the Lab
Case Law Extractors
Easy-to-use Python libraries for downloading metadata and full-text of case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and the Netherlands.

Cancel Culture Data Set
A first Cancel Culture Corpus data set with over 2.3 million tweets and a framework to enlarge it further. A detailed analysis of the data set is provided, and a set of features proposed, based on various models including sentiment analysis and emotion detection that can help characterize cancel culture.

BSARD
The Belgian Statutory Article Retrieval Dataset (BSARD) consists of 1,100+ French native legal questions annotated by experienced jurists with relevant legislation from a corpus of 22,600+ Belgian law articles.

LLeQA
The Long-form Legal Question Answering (LLeQA) dataset consists of 1,850+ French native legal questions annotated by experienced jurists with comprehensive answers rooted in relevant legislation from a corpus of 27,900+ Belgian law articles.

IDTraffickers
An extensive dataset consisting of 87,595 text ads and 5,244 vendor labels to verify and identify potential HT vendors on online escort markets.

Code from the Lab
Find our code for the Lab's projects on our GitHub page. Feel free to explore and use our code to advance your own projects and ideas
More Open-Source Resources
Z-inspection®
The Maastricht Law & Tech Lab is affiliated with the Z-inspection® initiative.
Z-Inspection® is a holistic process for evaluating the trustworthiness of AI-based technologies at different stages of the AI lifecycle. In particular, it focuses on identifying and discussing ethical issues and tensions through the development of socio-technical scenarios.
The process has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. Z-Inspection® is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA). Z-Inspection® is listed in the new OECD Catalogue of AI Tools & Metrics.
For more information contact Dr. Konrad Kollnig.
