Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Jennifer Polk. Jen helps PhDs launch meaningful careers, during and after graduate school. She speaks and writes on issues related to graduate education and career outcomes for doctoral-degree holders. Find her online…
I recently gave a presentation to the ACI Student Chapter of Universidad San Francisco de Quito. They asked me to tell something accessible about doing experiments, so I decided to chronicle my journey to the work that I am currently…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Vincent Peters. Vincent is a 25-year-old PhD student at the department of Management at Tilburg University. He has started his PhD in May 2016 and is specialized in the area of healthcare chains.…
We recently published a paper titled "Transverse load redistribution and effective shear width in reinforced concrete slabs" in the journal Heron. Heron is a free, open access journal, managed and organized by volunteers of Delft University of Technology and TNO.The…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Alayna Cole to the "How I Work" series. Alayna is a doctoral candidate in Creative Arts (Creative Writing) and a lecturer in Serious Games at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She has…
This year, I was author and co-author of three papers at SEMC 2016, the conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation in Cape Town, South Africa. While I did not have the chance to travel, my students Mr. Valdivieso and…
I recently received the following question (edited for anonimity):Hi EvaHope u r doing well..?Recently got 2 offers for Ph.D program, one from University Nr 1 in Australia and the other from University Nr 2 in New Zealand with Full Funding.In…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
Recently, at the fib symposium 2016 in Cape Town, I presented a paper that I co-authored with a junior colleague, who wrote his first paper. Here is the abstract of the paper: As the bridge stock in The Netherlands and…
I recently presented a paper at the 2016 fib symposium in Cape Town on the shear capacity of the Ruytenschildt Bridge. The abstract of the paper is as follows: In August 2014, the Ruytenschildt Bridge, a reinforced concrete solid slab…
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