Yesterday, Major Steven Hornstra, visiting staff officer at the NATO Command and Control Centre of Excellence, defended his dissertation with great success, receiving a PhD from Maastricht University.
His research focuses on connecting practical military training with academic education and introducing more adaptive, innovation-driven approaches to officer academic development. By developing and testing new instructional design models, his work aims to better prepare officers for the realities of modern, multi-domain operations.
We congratulate Steven, and his supervisors (Walther van Mook, Steven Durning, and Jaap Hoogenboezem), on this outstanding achievement!
Fostering Officer Competence — A Multi-Faceted Study of Military Training, Academic Education and Design Thinking-Based Innovation in Officer Development
https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20260330sh
(Photos: Bart Roost, Max van Rijn)
