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Do you find it important that education is inclusive and equitable? Would you like to contribute to current insights on identity safety in the context of health professions education? This PhD project focuses on gaining understanding of identity safety among students in health professions programmes and the role of educators in fostering this construct. One...

You will be assessing the value of AI for early breast cancer. Moreover, you will be part of the KEMTA evidence assessment group, directly contributing to NICE decision making on the reimbursement of health technologies in the UK. **Requirements**: We are looking for a curious, proactive, and ambitious academic (MSc) in health sciences (HTA, epidemiology,...

PhD position: The Memory Function of Sleep: Reactivating lost memories using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) and a Pharmacological Approach at the Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology (NP&PP) In our lab, we study ‘The Memory Function of Sleep’. To this end, we conduct both animal and human studies. Some of this work is conducted by...

Are you interested in working within a dynamic team to design behavioral measures to predict and prevent reading problems in children? We offer a fully-funded PhD position._ Children’s reading proficiency is closely related to their self-beliefs, such as their mindset, and socio-emotional well-being. Current practices for early assessment of (pre)reading...

The department has been very successful in placing PhD students after graduation. Recent placements include top universities outside the Netherlands (MIT, Duke University, London School of Economics, Oxford University) as well as within the country (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Free University Amsterdam). **Requirements**: **What we offer** **As **PhD...

Are you interested in education and research? This PhD project focuses on continuing professional development for teachers. Health professions education (HPE) requires continuous adaptation from its teaching faculty. Reflection is a critical process that allows teachers to examine the beliefs and assumptions underlying their teaching methods and...

Law affects us all, but it still struggles to address widespread harms in digital technologies. The massive adoption of (often) annoying - and usually illegal - “cookie banners” on websites is just one symptom of this. In your PhD project, you will seek to contribute to a better understanding of how technical methods can help study how cutting-edge...

**Background** Bangladesh has been a popular and established laboratory for development enhancement and vulnerability eradication experiments. Floods, riverbank erosions, cyclones, and waterlogging repeatedly battered the country. Extreme events and their impacts are very well documented in Bangladesh. Climate change has become a topical interest in the new...

Are you interested in conducting research on the role of students’ non-cognitive skills in (un)successful educational careers? The Department of Macro, International and Labour Economics (MILE) at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of Maastricht University offers a 4-year PhD position, starting February 1, 2025. More specific, topics addressed in...

This research project aims to explore such questions with the purpose of contributing to the development of a sustainable normative framework for a safe, just, and morally desirable translational use of (human) induced pluripotent stem cells in regenerative medicine. The insights gathered from this research project are intended to provide recommendations for...

Are you interested in doing a PhD on the history of biology, the environment, and gender? Are you able to work independently and in a team? Do you want to work at an international and interdisciplinary faculty in Maastricht, in the heart of the Dutch Euregion? - Set up an individual research project (together with the supervisors) - Create and execute a...

Are you interested in education and research? This PhD project focuses on the role of teachers in supporting students’ self-regulated learning. As the complexity of knowledge continues to grow and higher education becomes more flexible, students need to learn how to identify gaps in their knowledge and plan, monitor, and control their learning in a...

Deployment of LLMs for interpreting complex customer data for Marketing Insights. The PhD project leverages Language Models (LLMs) and social media data to conduct trend analysis, sentiment analysis, and integrate insights into executive data-driven decision-making models and dashboards in near real-time. It aims to explore consumer trends in the specified...

PhD position for the creation of dynamic supramolecular hydrogels and bioinks to modulate cell behaviour for tissue engineering. **Keywords**: biomaterials, synthetic ECM, tissue patterning, dynamic and responsive materials, cell-culture, biofabrication. Key references: **Requirements**: **What we offer** - Good employment conditions. The position is...

PhD position on Nutrition and Brain Function within the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, NUTRIM (Maastricht University). (In 1 running paragraph of text (maximum seven short sentences), describe the main responsibility of the position. In 1 subsequent paragraph, describe the positioning of the position within the organization and the structure...

**Job description** The human cornea is a transparent tissue through which light enters the eye. Its innermost layer is composed of a tightly packed layer of corneal endothelial cells (hCEnCs). The density of our hCEnCs decreases with age, and diseases such as Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy or iatrogenic damage after surgery accelerate their loss,...

The recent pace and scale of new developments in science and technology have presented our societies with an ever-expanding set of social and political challenges. At the same time, there is a long tradition of philosophers who have critically engaged with science and technology. This history contains valuable but often forgotten insights and tools for the...

Are you passionate about exploring the psychological complexities behind investigative interviewing? Then join us as a PhD student and research how we can prevent wrongful convictions and improve criminal justice practices. University College Maastricht (UCM) is looking for a highly motivated PhD student in Legal Psychology. In this position, you will...

**Project** (**Limits of) Support for social change among the advantaged: when ingroup/self-interest conflicts with morality.** Social inequality is on the rise. We see societies polarized between those who put efforts to decrease social inequality at the forefront of their political agendas and others who openly favor inequality in their countries or deny...

The Department of Quantitative Economics at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics is looking to fill a PhD position. **Requirements**: In multiple domains, there can be a welfare gain when parties work together. These cooperations lead to centralized optimization problems, where the total system is optimized. Such an optimization algorithm...