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How quickly do you think things will return to normal? How you feel about this is more important than you might think! Since it’s crucial for policy-makers addressing immediate problems to understand what people think might happen, Peiran Jiao has conducted an online survey experiment into how the...

COVID-19, the third outbreak of coronavirus in 20 years, wasn’t exactly unpredictable. Professor Pim Martens, who tries to integrate scientific knowledge and animal advocacy, talks about how zoonoses, infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans, foreground the complex interconnectedness of...

A column by Hans Bosma, professor of Social Epidemiology.

When Sofía Castro found out that she would be doing her exchange in Maastricht at SBE, she couldn't wait for her trip! This would be her first time in Europe and she had big plans. But after just one and half months in the Netherlands, the corona crisis hit, forcing her to adapt these plans.

Some employees of Maastricht University are literally operating on the front lines these days. Professor of General Practice Medicine Jochen Cals is also a practicing general practitioner in Sittard, a city that is suffering from a relatively high number of coronavirus infections. What is his...

Meet the UM alumni who combine their work with an extracurricular activity such as a special hobby, a creative project or even their own company. Today we lift the curtain on the ‘double life’ of Boukje Amalo, graduate of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences. She is a doctor, a trainee...

Dr. Gijs Goossens, doet onderzoek naar verstoringen in de stofwisseling bij mensen met overgewicht en obesitas. 

To support this research on how brain cells recover from injury and other research, Marcel Aries, neurologist and intensivist at the Maastricht UMC+, founded the Brain Battle Fund.