Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies

Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies

• Our goal: We aim to strengthen our expertise in cultural studies with a focus on literature and art and expand our team with a more senior colleague.
• Your colleagues: You will join the Literature and Art department and the research program Arts, Media, and Culture. Depending on your research focus, you may also collaborate with colleagues in one of our research centers, such as the Center for Gender and Diversity and the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration, and Development.

The position and profile
We offer a position in cultural studies to be filled at the associate or full professor rank, depending on your track record and experience. We seek to recruit an academic with a background in literary studies, film studies, art history, or related fields, whose work broadly addresses how culture – especially literature and art – shapes power, identities, and everyday life, as well as how people resist and reshape it. The ideal candidate will be open to adapting to our interdisciplinary teaching and research environment. We expect you to complement the expertise of colleagues in the Literature and Art department, including the study of representation, popular and subcultures, cultural transformation, and feminist and decolonial approaches to cultural production. Your methods range from cultural analysis, incorporating various reading strategies such as oppositional, reparative, and postcritical reading, to ethnographic approaches and co-creation. You are expected to contribute to the engaged humanities research characteristic of the Arts, Media, and Culture research group, with a willingness to collaborate with relevant societal partners in the Netherlands and especially in the Maas-Rhein Euregion.

What you do
You will contribute to teaching in different BA and MA programs at FASoS, including the BA programs in European Studies, Digital Society, Global Studies, and Arts and Culture, as well as their corresponding MA programs. Teaching responsibilities include tutoring, coordinating, and lecturing courses, and supervising internships and BA and MA theses. You will conduct field-leading research in cultural studies, publish in leading journals, apply for grants to form larger research teams or consortia (with PhD candidates and postdoctoral scholars), and organize research activities such as conferences and expert workshops. You will take on key leadership roles, such as head of department, research program director, and vice-dean of research. At FASoS, teaching and research duties are typically divided as 60% teaching and management and 40% research. Research time can be extended through external fundraising at the national and European levels. FASoS is a collaborative environment, and you are expected to actively collaborate with colleagues from across departments in interdisciplinary teaching and research activities.

What you bring
We’re not looking for someone who is ticking all the checkboxes. We are interested in who you are and what you bring:

• Expert in cultural studies. You study how culture helps maintain or challenge power structures; how meaning is constructed through language, media, literature, and art; and how identities are culturally constructed, negotiated, and in flux.
• Interdisciplinary thinker. You bring different theoretical and methodological approaches together and can thrive in a context were interdisciplinarity is a leading organizing principle of teaching and research.
• Experienced researcher. You have a proven publication record in high-ranking venues, a strong track record in grant acquisition and the leadership of research teams, and you have an excellent international reputation as a scholar with a distinct research profile.
• Engaged scholar. You actively share your insights beyond academia and collaborate with relevant partners and stakeholders, in the Maas-Rhein Euregion, the Netherlands, and beyond.
• Inspiring teacher. You have demonstrated experience in course coordination, teaching innovation, and thesis supervision. You encourage active student participation and value team teaching within our Problem-Based Learning (PBL) system. You have obtained the Dutch University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) or an equivalent.
• Experienced manager. You have successfully fulfilled senior management roles, such as director of an educational or a research program, head of department, and vice-dean of education or research. You have excellent people management skills.
• Collegial and community minded. You contribute to our academic environment through openness, collaboration, and a willingness to take on shared responsibilities.
• Multilingual communicator. You have excellent command of English (C1 level, written and spoken). Non-Dutch speakers are expected to acquire an intermediate level of Dutch (B1) within three years.

Assistant Professor in Social Inequality and Diversity in International Institutions

Assistant Professor in Social Inequality and Diversity in International Institutions

• Our goal: We aim to strengthen our expertise in the Social Inequality and Diversity theme, and respond to growing global inequalities in life chances and well-being that are increasingly shaped by factors such as socio-economic background, ethnicity, health, and migration status. We welcome candidates whose research engages with these topics from the perspective of international institutions and who can teach broadly within European Studies and international relations. Expertise in quantitative methods would be considered an asset.
• Your colleagues: You will join the Department of Political Science and the research program ‘Europe: Society, Politics and Global Order’ at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS). Our academic community brings together political scientists, historians, philosophers, and international relations scholars who study European political actors and institutions through interdisciplinary, collaborative, and comparative research.

What you do
You will contribute to teaching in BA and MA programs at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, including the BA and MA programs in European Studies, and potentially across other interdisciplinary programs within the faculty. Teaching tasks may include tutoring, coordinating, and lecturing courses, as well as supervising internships and BA and MA theses and mentoring first-year BA students At the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, academic duties follow the standard division of 60% teaching and management and 40% research. Research time may be extended through the acquisition of external funding.

What you bring

• You have a PhD degree in international relations, political science, political economy, or another relevant social science discipline with a focus on international institutions. You have strong expertise on international organisations, multilateralism and global governance and focus (or are willing to focus) on problems of social inequality and diversity. You may, for instance, study the legitimacy, politicization and support for international institutions, the representation of rising powers, other states, and non-governmental actors, or inequalities with regard to the distribution of funds and projects by international institutions. Quantitative methods are a clear asset.
• Interdisciplinary thinker. You connect empirical research with broader theoretical debates and ongoing political developments, and you enjoy working across disciplinary boundaries.
• Inspiring teacher. You have demonstrated experience in course coordination, teaching innovation, engagement with alumni or professional networks, and thesis supervision. You encourage active student participation and value team teaching within our Problem-Based Learning (PBL) system, including innovative and skills-oriented forms of assessment.
• Experienced researcher. You have a growing record of international, peer-reviewed publications and are motivated to further develop your research profile, including through collaborative grant proposals.
• Collegial and community-minded. You contribute to our academic environment through openness and collaboration, and you are willing to gradually take on shared responsibilities, including participation in academic governance and coordination roles in education, as well as engagement with student and alumni communities.
• Multilingual communicator. You are fluent in English (C2 level, written and spoken). Non-Dutch speakers are expected to acquire an intermediate level of Dutch within a reasonable timeframe.

Assistant professor Forensic Psychology

Assistant professor Forensic Psychology

Our goal: We are looking for an assistant professor forensic clinical psychology who has a genuine passion for teaching, an active and ambitious research agenda, and hands-on clinical forensic expertise.

Your colleagues: The section Forensic Psychology consists of 12 permanent staff members, several internal and external PhD candidates and two postdoctoral candidates (see here for more information https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fpn/forensic-psychology.

Section staff members’ research interests span forensic psychological assessment and treatment, procedures in police investigation, detection of deception, and decision-making processes in legal contexts. | Some staff members work as experts in legal cases | The section is responsible for the Master’s in Forensic Psychology and Legal Psychology.

PhD Candidate in Health-Economic Modelling for Dementia Support Technologies

PhD Candidate in Health-Economic Modelling for Dementia Support Technologies

Our goal: This PhD project is part of the European project DEM-CAPS (www.demcaps.org) aimed at developing and validating a health-economic modelling framework that demonstrates the value of psychosocial support interventions for dementia in collaboration with reimbursement decision-makers and patient organizations.

The project addresses key issues: 1) qualitative research on stakeholder priorities (Luxembourg), 2) systematic review on surrogate outcomes for economic evaluation (Czechia), 3) observational data analysis on the validation of these outcomes (Germany), 4) integration into a health-economic model (applied to two case studies) (Netherlands), and 5) stakeholder validation (Sweden). Dissemination includes open-access publications, conferences, and training for PhD students, with direct engagement from Alzheimer Europe and its networks.

This vacancy applies to key issue 4 on model-based health-economic evaluation. Your work will directly inform decision-makers about the societal return on investment in dementia care innovations.

Your colleagues: You will be embedded in an international and interdisciplinary consortium involving academic partners across Europe, Alzheimer Europe, and policy stakeholders. Within Maastricht University, you will work closely with experienced health economists and researchers specialised in dementia.

What you do
As a PhD candidate, you will lead data analysis using longitudinal cohorts from various European countries and apply advanced statistical methods (e.g., ordered probit regression, mixed generalized linear models) to assess disease progression, care transitions, and quality of life. You will develop and refine a health-economic R-based simulation model, integrating surrogate outcomes from psychosocial and technology-based interventions. You will make your model results accessible via user-friendly tools for stakeholders and disseminate your results through open-access publications and policy briefs. You will receive expert guidance from leading international researchers in dementia model-based health-economic evaluation (www.ipecad.org), ensuring a world-class PhD experience with impactful mentorship and collaborative opportunities.

Are you ready to set the course for the years ahead? Then we’d love to meet you.

What you bring
We are curious who you are and what you bring to the table. Do you recognize yourself in this?

We are seeking a motivated candidate with a Master degree in epidemiology, data science or health economics. Experience in simulation modelling, regression analysis, mathematical background and (clinical) work in dementia disorders are a plus. We seek someone passionate about data analysis and simulation modelling and comfortable working in an interdisciplinary, international team. Excellent analytical and communication skills are essential, with fluency in English required. If you are eager to contribute to innovative research that bridges technology, economics, and public health, we invite you to apply.

PhD Position in Mechanical Circulatory Support

PhD Position in Mechanical Circulatory Support

• Our goal: To improve outcomes for patients with cardiogenic shock and complex cardiothoracic disease by integrating cutting-edge experimental research with high-impact clinical analysis.
• Your colleagues: A multidisciplinary team of cardiothoracic surgeons, intensivists, cardiologists, biomedical engineers, and data scientists within a state-of-the-art MCS lab and high-volume tertiary referral center.

Cardiogenic shock and advanced heart failure remain among the most urgent challenges in cardiovascular medicine. Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) technologies offer life-saving potential, yet optimal patient selection, timing, and device strategies require deeper mechanistic and clinical insight. Our program combines experimental cardiovascular research with robust clinical cohort analysis to refine and personalize circulatory support strategies.

As a PhD candidate, you play a strategically important role in connecting experimental MCS research with clinical outcomes in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery and/or treated for cardiogenic shock. You design and conduct laboratory-based studies, while also setting up and analyzing prospective and retrospective clinical cohorts. By investigating hemodynamics, organ perfusion, and device–heart interactions, you contribute directly to improving bedside decision-making.

You translate experimental findings into clinically relevant hypotheses and protocols. You analyze clinical, physiological, and imaging datasets with rigor and reproducibility. You publish your results in peer-reviewed journals, present at international congresses, and actively contribute to multidisciplinary clinical–scientific discussions.

Are you ready to help shape the next generation of circulatory support strategies? We would love to meet you.

What you bring
We’re not looking for checkboxes; we’re interested in who you are and what you bring. Do you recognize yourself in this?

• Scientifically curious and translationally minded – You ask mechanistic and clinical questions and are driven to translate findings from bench to bedside within MCS.
• Analytical and quantitative – You work confidently with clinical, physiological, and/or experimental data and interpret results in a rigorous, reproducible way.
• Fascinated by cardiovascular physiology or biomedical engineering – You have a strong interest in hemodynamics, heart–device interactions, and critical care physiology.
• Collaborative across disciplines – You communicate effectively with clinicians, engineers, and researchers, and feel at home in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Clear and persuasive communicator – You present results with clarity, write scientific manuscripts, and contribute to grant proposals and academic discussions.