Stories

On June 24, the Brightlands High Tech Agro facility opens in Venlo. Here, scientists from multiple fields are engineering the next generation of horticulture. Robots, AI, and data science are enabling autonomous greenhouses to secure future food availability.

Through initiatives like Girls’ Day, special tours, and role models, companies and educational institutions try to attract more women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But do these efforts make women feel addressed or uncomfortable? Physicists Annabel Wolf and Emma...

Maud Vesseur, an orthopaedic surgeon in training, encountered a striking issue at Zuyderland Hospital: increasingly, patients with hip prostheses were being admitted after a fall, having fractured their hip. Often this happens precisely around the stem of their prosthesis. Vesseur recently defended...

How can artificial intelligence help unravel biological processes? At the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Aurélie Carlier and her team are searching for answers.

A portrait of Nicole Kornet: educator, prize-winner, and believer in the grounded jurist

A conversation with Jan Smits and Ronald Janse

Interview with alumna Ria Wolleswinkel

Interview with alumna and employee Katrien Vantilt

Job Cohen on the early years of the faculty

Human memory is one of biology’s most intriguing puzzles. Pinning down its precise genetic foundations remains like searching for a needle in a haystack. Researcher Daan van Beek delved into the data of healthy American volunteers, stretched the boundaries of statistical analysis, and pointed...