Due to the pandemic, it's been a while since I was able to work from and in the Netherlands - and I now double appreciate the good things about working from the Netherlands. To celebrate that I could be in…
It's been almost a decade since I started to combine my positions in Ecuador and the Netherlands. I've learned a few things along the way that may be of value to those considering a similar way of employment. My arrangement…
I have been writing about my experiences with teaching in the past, and how I've developed systems to streamline my teaching. Today, I'm focusing on seven teaching lessons that I have learned over the past years, that I'd like to…
After more than a year of interviews for the PhD Talk podcast, and many years of hosting the "How I Work" series on this blog, I've come to one conclusion: PhD trajectories are never straight paths In fact, no life…
This Fall semester, all over the world enthusiastic young (or not so young) people start their first job as a faculty member. If you are one of them - congratulations! But also: beware, you are in for quite a ride...…
At the beginning of every semester, I first make my task list for the upcoming semester. In this task list, I review my upcoming deadlines and responsibilities in terms of research projects, graduate students, papers to write, service responsibilities, teaching,…
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…
At the beginning of every semester, I evaluate (publicly) my goals of the previous semester. Summer 2022 contained three big blocks for me: time in Ecuador, time in the Netherlands, and holidays. As such, I planned a bit differently than…
At the start of every semester, I outline the structure of my weeks with a weekly template. My weekly template for the fall semester is not fully ready yet, as I'll only know my daughter's activities over the course of…
Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Hanan Hindy to PhD Talk. Hanan is a Lecturer at the Computer Science department at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Hanan did her PhD at…