Staff

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...

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 biology...

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...

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.

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 ...

Lucas Lindeboom was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on June 10th 1984. He started his studies Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 2006 and received his Bachelor’s Degree in 2009, after which he enrolled in t...

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...