Staff
Bas Havekes
Dr. B. Havekes studied Medicine at Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands and graduated in 2000 (cum laude). From 2001 to 2007 he was trained in general Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Leiden University Medical Center. In 2008 he obtained...
Esther Phielix
The research of Esther Phielix, Ph.D. focuses at the improvement of key metabolic disturbances seen in type 2 diabetes. Skeletal muscle and liver are of great interest because of their critically important contribution in maintaining physical function...
Joris Hoeks
Dr. Joris Hoeks (1978) started his study
Health Sciences in 1997, with a specialty
in Human Movement Sciences at
Maastricht University, where he
graduated in 2001.
Matthijs Hesselink
Matthijs K.C. Hesselink, Ph.D. Professor of Human Movement Sciences Maastricht University
Prof. Matthijs Hesselink (1968) received his M.Sc. degree in Human Movement Sciences from the faculty of Health Sciences, Maastricht University. In 1997...
Mijke Buitinga
Dr. Mijke Buitinga (1985) studied Technical Medicine at the University of Twente. At the same university, she performed her PhD on the development of bioengineering approaches to treat type 1 Diabetes, which she successfully defended in 2015. After...
Patrick Schrauwen
Patrick Schrauwen, PhD (1971) is Professor of Metabolic aspects of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus at the NUTRIM school for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism. In his multidisciplinary team, Dr. Schrauwen combines cellular and molecular...
Tineke van de Weijer
Tineke van de Weijer (MD, PhD) was born on the 31st of August 1984 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She studied Medicine at Maastricht University. During her studies, she followed an International Trajectory (ITG), including an extracurricular course on...
Vera Schrauwen
Dr. Vera Schrauwen-Hinderling was born on July 15, 1973 in Affoltern a.A., Switzerland. After graduating secundary school at the Gymnasium in Oberwil (BL), Switzerland, she studied Biology (with specialization in chemistry) at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland ...
Technicians
Esther Kornips
Esther was born in Beegden, the Netherlands, on March 13 in 1973.
After the secondary education, she started in 1989 her intermediate
vocational education on laboratory work, with the main
subject clinical chemistry and haematology.
Gert Schaart
Dr. Gert Schaart started in the research group
of Prof. Dr. Matthijs Hesselink and Prof. Dr. Patrick Schrauwen
his job as technician at the Department of
Human Movement Sciences of the
University Maastricht, in December 1999.
Johanna Jörgensen
Johanna Jorgensen was born in Stockholm, Sweden. 1997 she started her studies in Molecular Biology at Stockholm University from which she graduated in 2001. Immediately after obtaining her master degree, she started her PhD studies and obtained a Licentiate...
Post-docs
Kay Roumans
In 2016 Kay started his PhD at Maastricht University at the department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences under supervision of prof. Vera Schrauwen-Hinderling, prof. Patrick Schrauwen, and dr. Lucas Lindeboom. During his PhD he investigated substrate...
PhD students
Dzhansel Hashim
Dzhansel Hashim was born in May 14th 1998 in Haskovo, Bulgaria. In 2017 she started her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Manchester in the UK. Her bachelor degree had a major focus on molecular biology and during her thesis s...
Elnaz Daraei
Elnaz Daraei (MD) was born on 28th May 1990 in Tehran, Iran. She studied Medicine at the Guilan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. She has an amount of general knowledge and experience in different units in several hospitals and clinics. Among these...
Evi Koene
Evi Koene was born on May 13th 1998 in Sittard. In 2016 she started her bachelor Biomedical Sciences in Maastricht. During her bachelor thesis she focused on the association between the habitual diet and tissue specific insulin resistance in overweight...
Florian Haans
Florian Haans started his academic career in 2016 at the University of Twente where he enrolled in the bachelor of Technical Medicine. After completing the bachelor in 2019, he continued his study with the master program of Technical Medicine. During...
Froukje Vanweert
Froukje Vanweert was born in Bilzen, Belgium on February 2nd 1994. She started her Bachelor Biomedical Sciences at the Hasselt University in 2012. During her Bachelor thesis, she worked on the detection of autoantibodies in cerebrospinal fluid in patients ...
Ivo Habets
Ivo Habets was born on 25th of August 1998 in Maastricht. During his bachelor Biomedical Sciences in Maastricht, he did an internship at the department of Nutrition and Movement sciences, and wrote his thesis called: ‘Microscopic imaging of lipid droplets i...
Jeremy Basset
Jeremy Basset Sagarminaga was born in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2013, he started he BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Stirling, Scotland. During his time at Stirling, he worked under the supervision of Dr. Niels Vollaard investigating...
Julian Mevenkamp
Julian studied biomedical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, earning his bachelor’s and master’s there. During his MSc he carried out an internship at Maastricht University as part of his thesis titled ‘ECG analysis of the...
Marit Kotte
Marit Kotte was born on June 18th 1996 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. After moving to Dordrecht and Vlaardingen, she returned to Utrecht to study Biomedical Sciences at Utrecht University. In 2018, she obtained her Bachelor's degree and continued with the...
Pip van Lier
Pip van Lier was born on August 22nd 1994 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. In 2013, she started her Bachelor Biometrics at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences at Heerlen with a two-year clinical specialisation in cardiology. She passionately performed...
Soraya de Kam
Soraya was born on August 24th 1999 in Groningen, The Netherlands. After living in Indonesia, The Unites States and Singapore, she returned to the Netherlands and started her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University. For h...
Former employees
Anna Veelen
Anna Veelen was born on December 9th 1994 in Westervoort, the Netherlands. In 2013, she started the bachelor Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University, specialising in Biological Health Sciences. During her bachelor thesis she focused on the relationship...
Alexandre Houzelle
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrehouzelle/
Alexandre Houzelle was born on December 7th 1989 in Lunéville, France. He started the Bachelor Biological engineering in 2008 at University Francois Rabelais i...
Bas Dautzenberg
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bas-dautzenberg-8864116a/
Bas Dautzenberg was born on November 4th 1990 in Heerlen, The Netherlands. In 2008 he started the bachelor Life Sciences at Zuyd University of Applied ...
Carlijn Remie
A recent profile can be found on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlijn-remie-86606259/
Carlijn Remie was born in Sittard, the Netherlands, on 12th March 1991. In 2009 she started the Bachelor Nutrition and Dietetics at the HAN University of Applied ...
Charlotte Andriessen
Charlotte Andriessen started her academic career in 2011 at Maastricht University, where she studied the Bachelor of Health Sciences with a specialization in Human Biology. After completing the bachelor, she enrolled in the master program Nutrition and...
Charlotte Bakker
A recent profile can be found on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-bakker-63970596/
Charlotte Bakker studied Medicine at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She followed parts of her study in Berlin, Germany and Kolkata, India. After obtaining ...
Ciarán Fealy
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciar%C3%A1n-fealy-b5719b16/
Dr. Ciarán Fealy received a Bachelor of Science in Sport and Exercise Sciences in 2009 from the University of Limerick in Ireland and subsequently e...
Daniel Doligkeit
Daniel Doligkeit started his academic career at the University of Bonn in Germany, where he specialized in Human Nutrition in the study program Nutrition and Food Sciences. For his bachelor thesis, Daniel conducted a systematic literature review investigating...
Domenico Sergi
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/domenico-sergi-0a7a7672/
Domenico Sergi (PhD) was born on 7th January 1988 in Locri, Italy. After completing secondary school in 2007 (Bovalino, Italy) he moved on to study science ...
Edmundo Erazo Tapia
Edmundo Erazo Tapia
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmundo-et/
Elena Laskaridou
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleni-laskaridou-35142611a/
Elena Laskaridou, born in Kavala, Greece in 1993, obtained her Bachelor's degree on Nutrition and Dietetics in Thessaloniki, Greece. In September 2016, ...
Eline van Ewijk
Dr. Eline van Ewijk was born on the 24th of December 1984 in
Naarden, The Netherlands. After completing secondary school in
2003 (VWO at the Guido de Brès, Amersfoort), she started her study
in Medical Natural Sciences (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterd...
Emmani Nascimento
Dr. Emmani Nascimento (1981) earned a MSc in Biopharmaceutical Sciences
from Leiden University in 2004. Subsequently he joined the department of
Molecular Cell Biology to start his PhD project under supervision of professor
Margriet Ouwens, professor...
Eva Fechner
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-fechner-15a03b90/
Eva was born in Mainz, Germany, in 1989. In 2008, she moved to the Netherlands to study Food Technology in Wageningen. During her bachelor studies she became ...
Evelyn Zacharewicz
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelynzacharewicz/
Evelyn was born in 1988 in Melbourne, Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Deakin University in 2009 before setting her focus on skeletal ...
Frederieke Bosschee
Frederieke Bosschee was born on March 8th 1997 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. After obtaining her Bachelor's degree in Medicine in 2018, she continued the Master's program Medicine at Maastricht University. During her clinical rotations, internal medicine e...
Jakob Wefers
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-wefers-7a335267/
Jakob Wefers studied Human Movement Sciences (B. Sc.) at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. After completing his Bachelor degree he worked as a therapist ...
Jan Hansen
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-hansen/
Jan was born in Düsseldorf Germany on January 7th 1986. Before his bachelor studies, he worked as trained Technical Assistant at the Molecular Hematology Institute, F...
Jan-Frieder Harmsen
Jan-Frieder Harmsen was born on the 9th of April 1992 in Kiel, Germany. Frieder started his academic career in 2012 at the German Sport University Cologne, where he studied the B.Sc. Sport and Performance. After completing his Bachelor degree, he worked...
Jeroen van der Velde
Jeroen van der Velde was born in 1986 in Breda, the Netherlands.In 2004 he started the Bachelor of Health Sciences at Maastricht University. After graduation, he finished the Master of Physical Activity and Health, also at Maastricht University. As part...
Lena Bilet
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-bilet-a878943a/
Lena Bilet was born in Moss, Norway, in 1982. She began her studies in Molecular Biology at the University of Oslo, Norway, in 2002. After obtaining her Bachelor ...
Lotte Grevendonk
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lotte-grevendonk-746bbba1/
Lotte Grevendonk was born on May 27th 1991 in Lommel, Belgium. In 2014 she graduated with a Master degree in Biomedical Sciences at Hasselt University. D...
Lucas Lindeboom
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-lindeboom-ba8932184/
Lucas Lindeboom was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on June 10th 1984. He started his studies Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University o...
Maaike Bergman
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaike-bergman-655517a1/
Maaike Bergman was born in Capelle aan den IJssel, the Netherlands on October 4th , 1991. In 2011 she started the Bachelor Biomedical Sciences ...
Manon Koster
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manon-koster-5b457919a/
Manon Koster was born on the 3rd of June in 1997. In 2015, she started her bachelor Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University, specializing in Human ...
Mariëtte Boon
Dr. Mariëtte Boon (1988) studied Medicine and Biomedical sciences at
Leiden University and received her MSc degree in 2011. Early during her
study, she became fascinated by the disadvantageous metabolic
phenotype of the South Asian population.
Niels Connell
Niels Connell was born on May 30th, 1991, in Boxtel, The Netherlands. After graduating from high school in 2009, he enrolled in the bachelor Biomedical Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from which he graduated...
Nynke van Polanen
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nynke-van-polanen-0b07b589/
Nynke van Polanen was born on June 7th, 1990 in Almere, the Netherlands. She studied Nutrition and Health at the Wageningen University in Wageningen. D...
Pandichelvam Veeraiah
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pandichelvam-veeraiah-b8b30b18/
Pandichelvam Veeraiah was born on June 24th 1986 in Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his Bachelor in 2009 at Anna University, Chennai, India, w...
Rodrigo Mancilla Fuentes
Rodrigo Mancilla was born in Coyhaique city, in southern Chile in 1989. In 2007, Rodrigo started his bachelor degree in Physical Education at the Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco. In 2011, he began his first master in physical activity and health...
Sabine Daemen
Sabine Daemen started the Bachelor Biomedical Sciences in 2009
at Maastricht University, with the specialization Molecular Life Sciences,
from which she graduated cum laude in 2012.
Silvie Timmers
Dr. Silvie Timmers was born in Neerpelt, Belgium, on July 12th 1984.
In 2002 she started with the bachelor Biomedical Sciences at the
transnational University Limburg, on the campus located in
Diepenbeek, Belgium. She graduated cum laude in 2005 and...
Sten van Beek
Sten van Beek was born on August 18th 1995 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In 2013, he started his Bachelor Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University with a special focus on obesity and the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. After graduating...
Stephanie Huysmans
A recent profile can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-lexis-huysmans-a4649b8a/
Stephanie Huysmans was born on the 13th of August in 1991 and grew up in Eijsden. In 2012, she finished her bachelor Health Sciences ...
Vera de Wit
Vera de Wit was born on July 28th 1991 and grew up in Berg en Terblijt, The Netherlands. After graduating high school at the Porta Mosana College in Maastricht, she started Technical Health Engineering at Technical University Eindhoven and Medicine ...
Yvo Op den Kamp
I was born on February 7th 1989 in Geleen, the Netherlands. After graduating from high school, I enrolled in the bachelor of Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University. I graduated from Biomedical Sciences in 2012.
In 2012 I was accepted for the...