Phd Position: Investigating Effects of Lifestyle

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...

PhD position: Creating a probabilistic retinotopic laminar atlas of the LGN as a target for a visual prosthesis. Are you interested to investigate the detailed organization of the human lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) using ultra-high field MRI? Do you want to contribute to the creation of a novel visual prosthesis for the late blind? Then join the...

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 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 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...

Physiological and Accelerated Pacing in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Patients with Atrial Fibrillation. Background Heart failure (HF) is a prevalent clinical syndrome with diverse phenotypes. HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for over 50% of HF diagnoses. Despite its increasing incidence, HFpEF lacks...

Are you interested in working within a dynamic team to investigate the neural representations and computations underlying visual mental imagery? Do you want to understand why the experienced vividness of mental images is so different across individuals? Then join the ERC-funded project 'MINDSEYE' as a PhD student. Despite extensive research, we still do not...

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...

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...

Are you interested to investigate with our team whether extreme COVID-19 isolation was effective in vulnerable patients with kidney failure during the pandemic? This concerns a postdoc researcher position in the Internal Medicine department within the CARIM research institute at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University for...

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...

Interested in understanding how food support systems shape and are shaped by people in poverty? Are you passionate about ethnographic research? One of these 3 PhD positions may be right for you! Are you interested in understanding how food support systems shape and are shaped by people living in poverty? Do you have a passion for ethnographic research and...

The Maastricht Sustainability Institute (MSI) offers an exciting opportunity for a fulltime PhD position of four years in political economy and sustainability science. - the major changes required in food supply chains, markets, individual livelihoods, and dietary habits; - the consequences of such changes on social inequality and conflicts, and; - the...

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...

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...

**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...

This vacancy represents an exciting opportunity for ambitious individuals to join the department of Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering (cBITE) at the MERLN Institute for Technology-inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University in the Netherlands as part of the ERC STG project “AUTOMATHIC”, under the supervision of dr. Aurélie Carlier....

This vacancy represents an exciting opportunity for ambitious individuals to join the department of Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering (cBITE) at the MERLN Institute for Technology-inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University in the Netherlands as part of the ERC STG project “AUTOMATHIC”, under the supervision of dr. Aurélie Carlier....

Meta-analytical studies indicate that social class indicators correlate with healthy behaviours such as eating healthy or regularly exercising. One reason for such associations may be that living in socio-economically resourceful conditions facilitates developing and adhering to beneficial habits. On the contrary, precarious employment as a condition...

Situated within the Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT) at Maastricht University, this position offers a collaborative and dynamic research environment as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team. This project extends beyond borders, working with (inter)national partners from various backgrounds contributing to different aspects of the TXG-MAP project. As...