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As of 1 April 2022, David Groep holds an endowed chair at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering. His work revolves around the complex, large-scale ICT infrastructures that provide a foundation for similarly cutting-edge research.

Too broad, too vague, too little disciplinary depth – these arguments are often used by critics when talking about Liberal Arts Education (LAE). Research by PhD candidate Milan Kovačević of University College Maastricht (UCM) shows that there is no evidence of such academic shortcomings among LAE...

Discouraging border traffic or actually "closing" border crossings has had little effect on the spread of the coronavirus in recent years.

Assistant Prof Laura Kollau wins 10.000 euros to further her research into more sustainable solvents to make batteries more environmentally friendly, at the Maastricht University Dinner 2022.

To become a viable solution for labor shortages in many service industries, experts point out that service robots must be able to engage in emotional communication. However, it is currently not clear what such emotional communication should look like for service robots. Equally unclear is how such...

We often know no more about war victims than their date of death and the way they died. Amanda Kluveld, associate professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, is committed to discovering more. She gives a face to victims of war, particularly the Second World War. In archives, she recently...

On King's Day, 27 April, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and their family visited Maastricht for a broad and festive programme. During the royal visit, Rianne Letschert, President of our Executive Board, and Rector Pamela Habiboviç symbolically opened the international world of Maastricht...

Many fair trade labels exist, but do they really work well? Labelling fair products is an easy way to inform consumers without overloading them with information. But it also seems that the success of this strategy is limited. Which raises the main question: what stops consumers from buying fair...

Earlier this month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in the European Parliament that the Commission will launch a procedure to withhold EU subsidies to Hungary for violating the rule of law.

Do you often write news items or texts for a website? Do you regularly conduct interviews or translate scientific information into “plain language” and would you like to improve your skills? Then register for the summer course ‘Journalism and Effective Writing’, which is taught by Riki Janssen...