In early September, Dr. Jinjing Li, a graduate of our PhD programme in 2011, returned to his alma mater. He was accompanying his wife, Jasmin Kientzel, who was here to (successfully) defend her PhD thesis. This smart couple now lives in Canberra, Australia, so it’s a rare honour to welcome them back to Maastricht. Dr. Mindel van de Laar spoke to Jinjing about the new life he’s started on the other side of the world, and his activities outside of research. … Jinjing, can you tel...
Microsimulations are extremely important for testing various policies: from environment to health, tax-benefits to transport. Our recent conference covered the state-of-the-art in behavioural, spatial and static microsimulation thanks to the contributions of experts from Europe and beyond. At the conference, we discussed various new theories and techniques and got to grips with the first edition of the Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling. UNU-MERIT’s School of Governance hosted this year...
Open Call for Papers: European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association 23-24 October 2014, Maastricht, the Netherlands UNU–MERIT and its School of Governance are pleased to launch an open call for papers for the upcoming European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association. The conference is open to all areas of microsimulation including static, behavioural and spatial microsimulation methodologies, covering a wide range of policy domains. At our last event we hoste...