Student Prizes 2023 - Student Prizes 2023

Maastricht University celebrates its 48th Dies Natalis on Friday 26 January 2024. Every year, the best master's and bachelor'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.

You can watch the livestream here.

Bachelor's Student Prizes

Twenty-two students completed their bachelor's degree in 2023 with a thesis that was labelled excellent by their faculty. They were celebrated during a live webinar hosted by our Rector Magnificus Pamela Habibović. 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.

Luisa Knoben

Bachelor Arts and Culture

'Masking the Self: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Engagement with Masks, Diaspora, Aesthetics, and Identity in his Self-Portraits'

Jente Willems

Bachelor Biomedical Sciences

'The predictive value of carotid plaque burden on computed tomography angiography for recurrent ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack: The Plaque At RISK (PARISK) study'

Robin Steinkühler

Bachelor Business Analytics

'Curating Privacy Concerns: Optimizing Synthetic Data Generation for Machine Learning in Healthcare'

Leon Rüter

Bachelor Business Engineering

'Capturing the margin potential of biobased plastics in the food packaging industry
The impact of cost-plus and value-based pricing on the financial performance of bio-ethylene producers'

Bastiaan Laarakker

Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

'Formalisation of Timed Systems in Coq'

Remco Poeliejoe

Bachelor Digital Society

'Artificial yet Adored: Exploring the Popularity of Virtual YouTubers amidst the Demand for Realness'

Isabel Bandsma

Bachelor Dutch Law

'Ingrijpen in het DNA van het buitenbeentje - is kiembaanmodificatie ethisch?'

Merle Praum

Bachelor Econometrics and Operations Research

'Asymmetric Auctions: Understanding Valuation Heterogeneity and Equilibrium Dynamics'

Kyra Pauly

Bachelor Economics and Business Economics

'The Financial Impact of Enterprise Architecture Adoption'

Jessica Jassan

Bachelor European Law School

'Feminism in tort law: the harm principle and its failure to account for the tort needs of women'

Evelien van Sterkenburg

Bachelor European Public Health

'Care(ing) for Central and Eastern European Labour Migrants: A Scoping Review'

Nia Raycheva

Bachelor European Studies

'Victims of Demographic Engineering: The Bulgarian Violence against Muslim Minorities during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)'

Esmée de Jong

Bachelor Fiscale Economie

'Dutch Conditional Withholding Tax: How does the Dutch conditional withholding tax on dividends affect tax planning of multinationals established in the Netherlands?'

Maëlle Dickhoff

Bachelor Geneeskunde - Medicine

'Maëlle was awarded the prize because of her outstanding study results and the fact that she participated in the FHML Honours Programme'

Vincent Tadday

Bachelor Global Studies

'Sellout of Peacekeeping? Investigating the Effects of the Evolution of UN Policies on the Use of Private Security Companies in MONUSCO'

Pim Hovens

Bachelor Health Sciences

'Volume Outcome Association for Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy - A Meta-Analytical Approach'

Lukas Vöing

Bachelor International Business

'Unprecedentedly Irrational? The Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Investor Sentiment and Subsequent Stock Returns'

Saskia Rapp

Bachelor Maastricht Science Programme

'Stereoselective Synthesis of Glycomimetics
Using the [4+2] Inverse Electron Demand Hetero Diels-Alder Reaction'