I recently presented some of our TU Delft work on proof loading of bridges at a meeting of ACI Committee 342 "Evaluation of Concrete Bridges and Bridge Elements". You can find the slides of this presentation here: Proof loading of…
Today, in the series of "Defenses around the world", I am hosting the story of a scientist who prefers to remain anonymous. Veronika Cheplygina, whom you might remember from the "How I Work" interview, interviewed her friend for this occasion.…
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…
Today, Richard Newton talks about his experiences during his PhD defense. Richard is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania (USA). He took his PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University in 2009. His research focuses…
Today, I'm inviting Barbara Vreede to talk about her PhD defense in Portugal. Barbara worked on cichlid embryos for her BSc (in Leiden, the Netherlands), moved on to butterflies (in Leiden) and centipedes (in Galway, Ireland) for her MSc, did…
Today I am interviewing Devin Berg for the "How I Work" series. Devin is an assistant professor in the engineering and technology department at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He earned his BS Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in…
Today, I'm starting a new series of posts at PhD Talk. While writing with Veronika Cheplygina for her interview, we touched upon the subject of how different her PhD defense in the Netherlands was from her boyfriend's defense in Sweden.…
Today, I am interviewing Adedotun Agbemuko for the "How I Work" series. Ade is originally from Nigeria and is currently studying in Delft, The NetherlandsCurrent Job: MSc Student, Intelligent Electrical Power grids (IEPG) group currently on Thesis workCurrent Location: Faculty…
I originally wrote this post for the Bizwacks Unlimited, but since this blog has gone offline, I decided to repost it here.Most graduate students are hard on themselves: long hours in the laboratory and soldiering through no matter what, while…
Today, I am inviting Veronika Cheplygina to be interviewed for the How I Work series. Veronika has a background in computer science. She completed her MSc studies at the Delft University of Technology in 2010, with a thesis project on…
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