Student Prizes 2020

45th Dies Natalis

Every year, the best master's and bachelor's theses by our students are rewarded during the Dies Natalis celebration in January. They receive five hundred euros, a certificate and a small gift as a token of appreciation from our Rector Magnificus. Unfortunately, the current COVID-19 measures has forced us to adjust our plans for Maastricht University’s 45th Dies Natalis. Therefore, we shine a spotlight on the winners on these web pages.

  Bachelor Student Prizes 
  Master Student Prizes

Dies Natalis 2022

Bachelor's Student Prizes

Eighteen students completed their bachelor's degree in 2020 with a thesis that was labelled excellent by their faculty. 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. 

Sarah Samuel

Sarah Samuel

 Bachelor Dutch Law 
'The realization of the punishment adjustment for infanticide, remarkable or logical?'

Rebecca Aspetti

Rebecca Aspetti

  Bachelor European Law
'A Genuine Lack of Confidence throughout the European Union Legal Space: The Rebuttal of Mutual Trust as a Ripe Instrument of Protection of Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights' 

Nour-Eddine Lgarah

Nordine Lgarah

 Bachelor Tax Law
'Interaction between fraus legis and the additional tax assessment'

Imke van der Velden

Imke van der Velden

  University College Venlo 
'Instagram intervention for increasing adolescents' intention to adhere to a healthy Plant-based Diet' 

Ruben Tammaro

Ruben Tammaro

  Maastricht Science Programme
'In Silico Tomography of Membrane-Embedded Mycobacterial Type VII Secretion Systems' 

Lucas Uberti

Lucas Uberti-Bona Marin

  Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering 
'Learning to learn: a drug resistance learning pipeline' 

Joanne Snel

Joanne Snel

  University College Maastricht
'The ‘fatherhood penalty’: How fathers’ use of parental leave impacts their wages' 

Greta Josefine Magnani

Greta Magnani

 Bachelor Arts and Culture
'Female Anger. You ask: why give anger a gender?' 

Jette Banning

Jette Banning

  Bachelor European Studies
'(Non)European Others? The Role of Identity in ENP: A Comparative Study of EU Discourse on Tunisia and Ukraine' 

Jule Hodok

Jule Hodok

  Bachelor Economics and Business Economics
'An Analysis of Cooperative Behaviour in Games' 

Kevin van Abswoude

Kevin van Abswoude

  Bachelor Fiscal Economics 
'The migration of football players in response to tax rates'

Marc Mertens

Marc Mertens

  Bachelor International Business
'Under Pressure: Implications of a Competitive Shock on Alliance Portfolio Diversity' 

Francine Fijen

Francine Fijen

  Bachelor Econometrics and Operations Research
'The Search for a Moving Target: Under the object’s worst case initial position'

Evi Groenhuijzen

Evi Groenhuijzen

  Bachelor Biomedical Sciences
'Fetuin B in white adipose tissue associates with insulin resistance' 

Johanna Tassot

Johanna Tassot

  Bachelor European Public Health
'Risks of Oocyte Donation for Donors: a Systematic Literature Review'

Gijs Bongaarts

Gijs Bongaarts

  Bachelor Medicine
'Biomarkers of oxidative stress'

Esther Schouwenaar

Esther Schouwenaar

  Bachelor Health Sciences
'Defining the influence of miR-30d-3p on the angiogenic capacity of cardiac endothelial cells in vitro and in vivo'

Ana Reinartz Groba

Ana Reinartz Groba

  Bachelor Psychology
'It Comes in Waves: Measuring Neural Correlates of ASMR with EEG'