We've reached the end of another pandemic year. I wasn't particularly ambitious when I wrote my list of 2021 goals, but I counted on being healthy. I've had a number of health issues throughout the entire year and then my…
Just like every year, I'm making my list of favorite albums of the year. Without much further ado, here is my selection: 10. Angele - Nonante-cinq Earworm of the year 9. Thy Catafalque - Vadak More black metal and less…
As always, I like to reflect on the books I read in a given year. In 2021, I read a fair amount of books as usual. I read a bit less of nonfiction than usual, and listened to a larger…
I recently went through the process at TU Delft to get promoted from the first level of assistant professor to the next (and last) level. One aspect of the tenure and promotion procedures at TU Delft is that tenure does…
Fall 2021 was a particularly hard semester for me: I started wearing arch supports as I was dealing with a hip and knee injury, then I broke my toe, then we were all quarantined as my husband and daughter had…
If you look at my time logs for Fall 2021, you can see that the semester started normal, and then my working hours became more erratic (quarantine as my husband and daughter had covid, health issues, emergency travel to Europe,…
Some time ago, I received the following question from a reader (edited for anonymity): I have just found your blog and I am starting to read. I don't know exactly why, by I want to directly write to you a…
When I started working in Ecuador in 2013, there was no specified tenure and promotion system. As a result of changes to higher education in that period of time, such a system was developed over the subsequent years, and I…
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…
Becoming a parent is a life-changing event, and it also changes how one acts at work. For me, I clearly notice that becoming a parent changed me as a person, and also as a researcher and academic. Today, I want…
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