H+ Graduates 2025-2026

On this page we celebrate the achievements of our Honours+ students 2025-2026.

  • Dear Honours+ students and Supervisors,

     

    Congratulations on the completion of your challenges and thank you all for another great year of Honours+.

    We want to thank you and applaud you for your flexibility, resilience, self management skills and creative problem solving. We hope all the valuable lessons you learned, the useful knowledge you gained, and all the skills you (further) developed, serve you well in all your future endeavors.

     

    Kind regards,
    Honours+ Central Management Team
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  • Challenge outcome: pitch & poster

    The Honours+ programme is concluded with a round of pitches, during which each team presents their findings with regards to the team challenge to the other Honours+ students, and a jury. Each teams also designs a poster to visualize their findings. The best presentation and poster within every challenge topic will win a team prize.

    The team challenges are based upon the Dutch National Research Agenda, and UN’s SDG’s.

    Below, this year’s Honours+ students inform the H+ community what potential solution they found (applied research challenges) or what new and value-adding knowledge to the already existing knowledge on this topic their team uncovered (theoretical research challenges).

  • How can we promote and create social cohesion in a diverse society?

    Team 1:

    “How is social cohesion perceived by locals and local political parties in the context of the Dutch Civic Integration Act 2021?”

    • Melina Lexa (SBE), International Business
    • Miruna Aniculăesei (FASoS), European Studies
    • Garance Riga (FASoS), Global Studies
    • Benedetta Gargiulo (LAW), European Law School
    • Ngan Nguyen (FPN), Psychology
    • Sofia San Joaquin Roca (FPN), Psychology

    • Supervisor: Gerda Kraag
       

      Click here for the team poster

    Team 2:

    “How does the use of emojis as paralinguistic signals threaten social cohesion among young adult social media users?”

    • Pauline Baumeister (SBE), International Business
    • Gauthier Piret (FASoS), European Studies
    • Vasiliki Neraki (FPN), Psychology
    • Flora Hapkemeyer (LAW), European Law School
    • Isabelle Vermeulen (LAW), Dutch Law
    • Supervisor: Jonas Wogh
       

    Click here for the team poster

    Team 3:

    “How do and should post-9/11 terrorism narratives concerning Middle Eastern minorities structure the European Union’s understanding of policy options for governing social cohesion?”

    • Paula Weidenfeller (FASoS), Global Studies
    • Nora Williams Reinhard (SBE), International Business
    • Triza Ea (FPN), Psychology
    • Ariele La Rosa (LAW), European Law School
    • Tessa Dörmer (LAW), European Law School

    • Supervisor: Valia Kalaitzi

       

    Click here for the team poster

  • What is the inequality problem?

    Team 1:

    “How do institutional and socioeconomic factors shape the access of refugees to secondary education in Sweden and Germany, and how do these factors jointly determine labour-market outcomes?”

    • Alexander Urbach (SBE), International Business
    • Deniz Güner (LAW), European Law School
    • Maya Herrlett (LAW), European Law School
    • Mewee Angeline Alexander (FHML), International Medicine Track
    • Lydia Cîrstea (FPN), Psychology

    • Supervisor: Assem Dandashly

       

      Click here for the team presentation

    Team 2:

    “How does public transport planning in the Netherlands address gender differences and what are the implications for gender inequality?”

    • Feia Gerrits (FASoS), Digital Society
    • Sherife Su Mehmetaliogullari (LAW), European Law School
    • Luisa Reichwein (LAW), European Law School
    • Eva O'Shea (SBE), Economics & Business Economics
    • Ngoc Dang (FPN), Psychology
    • Supervisor: Michalis Moatsos
       

    Click here for the team poster

    Team 3:

    “How does the level of education affect individuals’ perceived internal distress in Sweden and the United Kingdom, and does one welfare regime mitigate overall levels of internal distress more effectively than the other, particularly when comparing the periods before and after the 2008 recession?”

    • Lucas Schiffelers (SBE), Econometrics & Operations Research
    • Isabela Ferreira Cruz (LAW), European Law School
    • Antonia Rödle (FPN), Psychology
    • Supervisor: Mehrdad Seirafi
       

    Click here for the team poster

  • How do the old and new media influence individuals and society?

    Team 1:

    “What are the similarities and differences in the framing of migration between old and new media in France, Germany and the UK?”

    • Julian Hüning (FPN), Psychology
    • Diana Bidiga (FPN), Psychology
    • Augustin Forjonel-Legrand (FASoS), European Studies
    • Aliya Akdogan (LAW), European Law School
    • Theodore De-Méric-De-Bellefon (SBE), International Business
    • Philippe Lepeu (SBE), Economics & Business Economics

    • Supervisor: Melissa Siegel
       

      Click here for the team poster

    Team 2:

    “How does affective polarisation manifest in popular British politicians’ discourse on X during the 2019 and 2024 British National Elections, and how does it differ?”

    • Jiline Reichert (SBE), International Business
    • Timo de Vries (SBE), International Business
    • Maya Ansorge (LAW), European Law School
    • Alexia Doyle Currie (FASoS), European Studies
    • Kaj Ruber (FASoS), Arts & Culture
    • Johanna Giebeler (FPN), Psychology
    • Supervisor: Xiaoyu Kang
       

    Click here for the team poster

    Team 3:

    “Are individuals able to independently distinguish between images and videos produced by humans vs. contemporary publicly accessible generative AI models (2025-generation), and what potential political, psychological and economic implications could this have on society?”

    • Mayana Vieira Sölter (FPN), Psychology
    • Linus Sprenger (FPN), Psychology
    • Jolanka Kocianova Vuong (FASoS), European Studies
    • Max van Dieten (SBE), International Business
    • Quinten Last (SBE), Econometrics & Operations Research
    • Supervisor: Steffen Kuenn
       

    Click here for the team poster

  • How do we improve the quality and availability of health care as much as possible while keeping it affordable?

    Team 1:

    “How do clinical, institutional, and knowledge-related barriers within the Dutch healthcare system contribute to delayed diagnosis of endometriosis, and what structural improvements could enhance diagnostic efficiency and affordability?”

    • Lisa Đăng (FPN), Psychology
    • Mona Stiegemeier (SBE), International Business
    • Malu Haller (FASoS), European Studies
    • Lia Wallraff (FHML), Biomedical Sciences
    • Carla Stellwag (LAW), European Law School

    • Supervisor: Rianne Fijten
       

      Click here for the team poster

    Team 2:

    “How could the existing HIV prevention strategies in the contrasting health care systems of Sweden and Romania be adopted in a multilevel integrated intervention model applicable to both?”

    • Sarra Cruceru (FASoS), European Studies
    • Giulia Terzani (LAW), European Law School
    • Max Webers (SBE), Econometrics & Operations Research
    • Masami Itomura (FPN), Psychology
    • Supervisor: Gabriel Paiva Fonseca
       

    Click here for the team poster

    Team 3:

    “How can preventative and mental-health interventions for students be integrated into the Dutch health insurance package, and what regulatory conditions are required to ensure their cost-effectiveness and accessibility, resulting in improved health outcomes?”

    • Hamsita Radhakrishnan (FHML), Medicine
    • Gregorio Rossi (SBE), Economics & Business Economics
    • Gabriel Stevens (SBE), Econometrics & Operations Research
    • Morgan Joffe (LAW), European Law School
    • Theodor Noé (FPN), Psychology
    • Isa Peters (FPN), Psychology
    • Supervisor: Pavlos Liagkas
       

    Click here for the team poster

  • What is the impact of new technologies on humans and society?

    Team 1:

    “How does media exposure to cyberattacks, compared to conventional armed attacks, influence public threat perception?”

    • Natalia Georgiades (FPN), Psychology
    • Kaan Stassen (LAW), European Law School
    • Anna Němcová (LAW), European Law School
    • Lena Schwenk (FASoS), Global Studies

    • Supervisor: Jermain Kaminski

       

      Click here for the team poster

    Team 2:

    "How does the internal adoption of generative AI tools by Dutch public institutions illustrate the influence of GenAI on political actors’ critical thinking?"

    • Ole Leermann (SBE), International Business
    • Ilya Matusov (FASoS), Digital Society
    • Alex Götz (FPN), Psychology
    • Erin Behlic (LAW), European Law School
    • Jan Walkowiak (LAW), European Law School
    • Taisiya Ageeva (FHML), Biomedical Sciences
    • Supervisor: Anton Spitkovsky
       

    Click here for the team poster

    Team 3:

    “Among social media users, how does exposure to political deepfake videos affect trust in political information on social media and perceived election integrity, and how do deepfake labels shape these effects?”

    • Natalia Vilches Poperecinaia (FASoS), European Studies
    • Marie-Julie Cantraine (LAW), European Law School
    • Thomas Dubuisson (LAW), European Law School
    • Leon Schwabe (FPN), Psychology
    • Luisa Homola (SBE), International Business
    • Sergio Jiménez Puspito (SBE), Economics & Business Economics
    • Supervisor: Peiran Jiao
       

    Click here for the team poster

  • How can we deal with the impact of climate change on life on Earth?

    Team 1:

    “How did temporary internal displacement caused by the 2021 floods in Limburg affect residents’ mental well-being?”

    • Jarno Kerkhofs (FHML), Medicine
    • Lynn Gießwein (SBE), International Business
    • Anna Locher (SBE), International Business
    • Sandra Latta (FASoS), European Studies
    • Salman Güner (FPN), Psychology

    • Supervisor: Serdar Turkeli
       

      Click here for the team poster

    Team 2:

    “How does the use of AI within Europe affect the climate crisis, and how can this effect be remedied through legislation?”

    • Cohen Banks (FASoS), Digital Society
    • Pauline Schmidt (FASoS), European Studies
    • Annika Eicker (FPN), Psychology
    • Philemon Kelber (LAW), European Law School
    • Manuela Chaduiron--Ochoa Bazante (SBE), International Business
    • Supervisor: Diana Owuor
       

    Click here for the team poster