Prof. Dr. Schols has a long career within FHML, as a researcher and as director of NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism. Under her leadership, NUTRIM has grown into a worldwide Center of Excellence for research in the fields of obesity, diabetes, COPD and cancer cachexia.

Schols about her appointment as dean of FHML: “FHML has interesting challenges in the field of education and research, HR policy, the possibilities for expanding cooperation within the Maastricht UMC +, the further shaping of interfaculty cooperation and the possibilities for the faculty to strengthen in a regional and national context. I look forward to consolidating and further developing the initiatives that have been taken in recent years under the leadership of the current dean, such as the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus."