Faculty Council
Programme Directors
Educational Programme Committee
Board of Examiners
Research Committee
Library Committee
Colloquium Doctum Committee
A shorter overview of the organisational structure is available on the UM website.
FPN has two main tasks: to organise and carry out education and research. Ultimate responsibility rests with the Dean. The Dean and three board members for: research and valorisation, education and innovation, and internationalisation make up the Faculty Board. The board is advised by a democratically elected representation body, the Faculty Council.
All staff at FPN belongs to one of the faculty’s five departments or the Faculty Office. FPN’s research is organised in five departments: Clinical Psychological Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Work and Social Psychology, Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, and Methodology and Statistics.
Faculty Board
The main administrative body of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience is the Faculty Board. The board consists of four members: the dean (also the chair) and two members responsible for research and education respectively. It also includes a secretary-director. The board meetings are attended by two students, in advisory capacities, who are appointed by the board after being nominated by the Faculty Council’s student members.The chair and the board members in charge of education and research are appointed by Maastricht University’s Executive Board, usually for four and three years respectively. The student advisers are usually appointed for one year.
The board is responsible for the faculty’s general management, administration, organisation and structure of its education and research.
The board of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience is composed as follows:
| Faculty board 2023-2024 | |
| Dean | Harald Merckelbach |
| Vice dean Education | Petra Hurks |
| Vice dean Research | Rainer Goebel |
| Vice dean Recognition & Rewards | Carolien Martijn |
| Managing Director | Pascal Stevens |
| Student member (as adviser) | Irena Xhari |
Faculty Council
The board is advised by and consults regularly with a democratically elected representation body: the Faculty Council. The council advises the board upon request or of its own accord. It consists of ten members: four elected from the academic staff, one from the support staff , and five from the FPN students.
Monthly meetings are in room A5.772 15.30 - 18.00 hrs and are open to UM students and staff.
21 September 2023, 12 October, 16 November, 14 December (14.00 to 17.00hrs),
8 January 2024, 22 February, 21 March, 18 April, 16 May, 13 June and 2 July 2024.
| Faculty council 2023-2024 | |
Names of the 2023-2024 Faculty Council members are known after the first meeting on 21 September 2023. | |
| Academic staff | Natasha Mason Alicia Walkowiak Bram Fleuren Michael Capalbo (chair) Nathan Lassen (vice chair) |
| Support staff | Caroline van Loo-Frantzen |
| Student members | Hannah Finklenburg Lilly Schröder Ernest van Nispen tot Pannerden Nathan Lassen Maike Hinrichs |
| Secretary | Marléon Vijgen |
Programme Directors
The programme director coordinates and organises the preparation and execution of the study and examination programme of the corresponding programme(s). In this, he or she advises the Faculty Board on the content of programme and examination regulations, and, as board executive and advisor, is closely involved in the quality assurance of the programme.
The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience has two programme directors:
- Herco Fonteijn (Bachelor)
- Sjir Uitdewilgen (Master programmes)
See also: Programme and specialisation contacts
Educational Programme Committee
The Educational Programme Committee provides advice on the amelioration and safe-guarding of the quality of the FPN curricula, including the EER. The committee consists of ten members: five staff members and five student members. See also: Opleidingscommissies.nl
| Educational Programme Committee 2023-2024 | |
| Staff | Arie van der Lugt (chair) Maarten Peters Bram Fleuren Katrijn Houben Pauline Dibbets |
| Students | Gabriela Krasnowska Lara Stevens Ella Rumohr Antonia Raissle Fabienne Behrendt |
| Secretary | Wladimir van Mansum |
Board of Examiners
The Board of Examiners is responsible for implementing the education and examination regulations. It also deals with exemption requests and complaints about exams and exam assessments, but only if the student and the course coordinator are unable to solve the problem together.
See also: Board of Examiners.
Composition of the Board of Examiners:
| 2023-2024 | |
| Chair | Fleurie Nievelstein Chair for Bachelor affairs Franc Donkers Chair for Master affairs |
| Members | Peter Muris |
| Secretaries | Martien Jenneskens Marjolein Bastin from1 Aug. 2023 |
Research Committee
The faculty board is advised by the research committee (onderzoeksraad; ORa), a body that represents the interests of the two overarching research programmes/departments. The research committee evaluates and discusses feasibility of PhD projects, plans for large investments in research infrastructure (costs exceeding k €25), and all other matters that relate to broad research issues. The research committee meets every month.
The ORa consists of the chairpersons of the four departments, and the director of the FPN Graduate School. The board member Research attends the ORa meetings as an informant. The ORa is professionally supported by the research policy officer FPN, Rense Hoekstra MSc.
Library Committee
Responsible for acquiring literature for the library and Learning and Research Centre.
Contact: Philip Verduyn, Philip.Verduyn@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Colloquium Doctum Committee
The colloquium doctum committee is charged with implementing the colloquium doctum regulation.
Chair: Eliza de Sousa Fernandes Perna
See also
Education Office
Research Departments
Programme and specialisation contacts