Student Prizes 2024
Maastricht University celebrates its 49th Dies Natalis on Friday 31 January 2025. 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-three students completed their bachelor's degree in 2024 with a thesis that was labelled excellent by their faculty. They were celebrated during a live webinar hosted by our Rector Magnificus Pamela Habibović. By clicking on the links beneath their names, you will find an elevator pitch from each student, along with a video where the supervisor congratulates the fortunate winner.
Ainsley Shaw
Bachelor Arts and Culture
Reading Double: An Autofictional Reading of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
Esther Miguelez Barragan
Bachelor Biomedical Sciences
Benchmarking instrumentation and analysis methods for relative quantification of complex proteomic samples.
Teodor Iankov Krandarov
Bachelor Business Analytics
Exploring the Impact of Nodes with a Low Channel count and balance on the Lightning Network
Peter Kastner
Bachelor Business Engineering
Decarbonizing the manufacturing industry: Quantitative Analysis on the Carbon Emission Reduction Potential of Cyber-Physical Production Systems in Textile Manufacturing Processes
Jocelyn Morrison
Bachelor Circular Engineering
Focused Life Cycle Assessment of Avantium’s monomer product furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA)
Maja Gójska
Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Prediction of Cognitive Decline Trajectories on Multi-Omics Data
Claudio Lo Sciuto
Bachelor Digital Society
“XL” Tapped You: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Grindr in the Sexual Intimacy of its Users
Shereen Cok
Bachelor Dutch Law
Evaluatie en aanbevelingen voor het EU-cybersanctieregime: een focus op attributie binnen het Gemeenschappelijk Buitenlands en Veiligheidsbeleid
Kees van Kuilenburg
Bachelor Econometrics and Operations Research
Replicating Portfolios Using Convex Neural Networks
Alexander Vyvey Declerck
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics
A Theory of Discrimination Induced Consumption
Renata Stefan
Bachelor European Law School
Shift in Protagonists: Collusion in the Pre vs Post-Algorithmic Market
Ariana Orlić
Bachelor European Public Health
Improving Fertility Preservation for Male Cancer Patients: A Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators
Alice Mazzetti
Bachelor European Studies
Suburban Soundscapes: the Art of Resistance in the Parisian Banlieues
Laura Widdershoven
Bachelor Fiscal Economics
The influence of the inheritance tax on economic dynamics
Anna-Lucia Thoelen
Bachelor Geneeskunde/Medicine
Bachelorstudenten Geneeskunde schrijven geen eindwerk. Wij nomineren daarom graag een student voor deze prijs die cum laude is afgestudeerd en over het gehele studieprogramma bezien, de beste resultaten heeft behaald. De voorgedragen student voor de master Geneeskunde is geselecteerd op basis van een uitzonderlijk goede Wetenschapsparticipatie (WESP) stage en excellente studieresultaten.
Sara Rikken
Bachelor Gezondheidswetenschappen/Health Sciences
Responses of Significant Others and Their Impact on Pain and Quality of Life in Spinal Cord Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
Bachelor Global Studies
Historical Grievances in the Headlines: Analysing US Newspaper Portrayals of Canada’s Indigenous Residential School Discussions (2015-2021)
Moritz Burghardt
Bachelor International Business
Behavioral Incentives in Sustainable Investing: A Comparison of Individual and Institutional Investors
Rok Lobnik
Bachelor Maastricht Science Programme
Land-use Changes in a Traditional Mosaic-Like Landscape as Cause for Population Decline of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius Collurio) in Šturmovci (Ne Slovenia)
Franka Grefer
Bachelor Psychology
Exploring Intellectual Humility via Judgments of "Not Knowing" and their Effect on Humble Inquiry
Merle Engelen
Bachelor Tax Law
Handelen als overheid of als ondernemer: een verlegging in de scheidingslijn
Alice von Seidel
University College Maastricht
Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure and Breast Cancer Risk: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Antonia Gruber
University College Venlo
The toxicological nightmare of postmortem redistribution: a narrative literature review