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  • Pain during sex is a constant for one in 10 women, and one in three women experience this kind of  pain occasionally. Then there are those women who suffer from vaginismus, who are so afraid of the pain that they avoid sexual intercourse completely.

  • Electric mobility is the future? According to ITEM researcher Martin Unfried it sure is!

  • BISCI participated in a workshop hosted by TKI Dinalog for the Nationale WetenschapsAgenda (NWA)-route 16 on ‘Logistics, Transportation and Mobility’ on Friday 4 October.

  • As of 1 January 2020, all associate professors (with UHD profiles 1 and 2) who hold a PhD degree and hold a UM employment contract will be granted ius promovendi for an indefinite period of time. Consequently, these associate professors can be assigned as supervisors of PhD projects starting as of 1...

  • Ilaria Passarani defended her PhD dissertation October 8, 2019 at Maastricht University.

  • Interview wirh prof. Eddy Houwaart, after his official retirement, about the lessons medical history has to offer.

  • PhD thesis written by Aline Larroyed.
    This research brought a contribution on the roles, features and future perspectives of patent translation and dissemination of disclosure of patent information in patent law. It brings a thorough analysis of patent cases through the perspective of translation...

  • Punishing atrocities

    PhD thesis written by Shahram Dana.
    Key theoretical and doctrinal aspects of punishing atrocities remain underdeveloped. This study contributes to the normative maturation of atrocity sentencing  and punishment through doctrinal development of nulla poena sine lege in international law and...

  • The possible construction of the Einstein Telescope in South Limburg is a step closer now that research has shown that the soil under the hills is stable enough for the ten-kilometre-long detectors of gravitational waves. Maastricht University, one of the participants in the project, is pleased with...