Charles
van Leeuwen

Every year again, I explain my first year students in our first tutorial why I like working in Maastricht. For them, it sounds obvious: it is an attractive international university, its environment is surprisingly European and multilingual and its educational approach allows for interdisciplinarity and [...]

During my university studies I was lucky to have many opportunities to practice my languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Latin, the languages I learned at school, and even a few more: Italian and Greek. I liked these languages and considered the advantage of speaking [...]

It never occured to me that visiting professorship would become such a structural part of my cv. But looking back on the past fifteen years, there were quite some semesters dedicated to teaching at universities 'abroad'. In particular Namur in Belgium and Padova in Italy. [...]