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
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 ...
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...
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...
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...