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Because diagnostic criteria have historically been based on male characteristics, many women only receive an autism diagnosis later in life. Yet little is known about how they experience this life-changing event, the stereotypes they encounter, or the support available to them.

At M4i, Dr Mudita Vats is looking at everything that is making your food look and taste like it does. With the help of Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) she can pinpoint exactly where the flavor is located, but also where contaminants such as microplastics are accumulating.

Marlies Vermeulen is an artistic researcher at What Art Knows (Zuyd University of Applied Sciences), teacher, and co-founder of the Institute of Cartopology. She developed the new discipline of cartopology during her PhD research and defended her PhD at Maastricht University in June 2026.

Michiel Bron, who obtained his PhD at FASoS, has won the inaugural William Burr Prize in Nuclear History for his dissertation The Petro-Atom . The prize recognises outstanding nuclear history research and includes a book contract with McGill-Queen's University Press.

Professor Eliza Steinbock has been awarded the FASoS Valorisation Prize 2025 for Field Notes on Artistic Participation in Europe’s Trans and Queer Archive . Ferenc Laczó received an honourable mention for Intertwined Stories .

Even relatively young people can develop cartilage damage in their knees. Pieter Emans studies a new implant, to help them keep their own knee for longer.

PhD thesis by Rebeca Ferrero Guillén

From shaping the Netherlands' response to national crises to tackling femicide, alumna Willemijn Vlieg shares why real resilience starts with people.

The extra work involved in eating more healthily still falls predominantly on women, says Madhura Rao, Assistant Professor of Food Systems Governance for Planetary Health at the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Why does public health policy widen the gender gap?

Pia Geffroy is a creative jack-of-all-trades. At the moment, she mainly focuses on her music: a surprising combination of pop and classical.