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Sanne Houben (Department of Clinical Psychological Sciences) has been with the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience since she started the Bachelor in Psychology at UM. After completing the programme, she obtained her master’s degree in Psychology and Law (now Legal Psychology). During her bachelor’s she worked as a Research Assistant in the Forensic Psychology group, continuing even after getting her master’s degree. When the vacancy for her current PhD position came up, she applied and started her work on the project: The effect on memory of two therapies. 1: Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) and 2: Imagery rescripting.

For the third year in a row the CaRe Award was awarded to a CAPHRI researcher: Out of 318 CaRe dissertations the thesis of Eefje de Bont (research line Optimising Patient Care) titled "Childhood fever in out-of-hours general practice" was selected as number one.

Technology conference TNW catalogues 500 of the Dutch tech world’s most talented people under the age of 26. This year’s list – the T500 – features three alumni and eight current students of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). Among them is Dirk Bongers, DKE master's student.

The newest edition of the Montesquieu reeks no 12 "Europa, Europa: op weg naar de verkiezingen van mei 2019" ("Europe, Europe: on the way to the May 2019 elections") is out!

On 8 May, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross-border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) of Maastricht University (UM) and UHasselt sign a cooperation agreement in the field of cross-border research in the presence of the governors of the provinces of Belgian and Dutch Limburg. 

A report about the UM research on immunotherapy to fight cancer, including the promising results.

From 1 January 2021, Maastricht University will receive additional funding from the Dutch Government for another four years to continue the development of education.

Candidate for the European elections, Jacques Michel Bloi has started as an external relations advisor at the ITEM Expertise Centre at Maastricht University. Jacques Michel Bloi will work as a representative of ITEM to form a link between science, politics and policy. The main focus will be on the German contacts. 

A quarter of the candy stores have disappeared from the street view in the last 14 years. In the meantime sales of chocolate has grown. According to research, this is because consumers think that chocolate is healthier than candy. But is that correct?...Alie de Boer explains in this Dutch article.