As some long-term readers of this blog know, I track my work time. I've been tracking my time at work (and sometimes, all my time) since I was a PhD candidate. Here's what my overall time looked like in 2020:…
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…
In September, I had the pleasure of giving a lecture (online) for the 2020 CONEIC conference, of the Peruvian association of civil engineering students. While I could not give the lecture live because I had already planned something else during…
2020 did not turn out what I expected it to be, to say the least. There's been death and grief in my family (husband's side, but even though we are near, still we couldn't attend funerals because of the restrictions,…
As every year, I share my list of best albums that came out this year. I have also curated my list of favorite albums (compiling over 500 hours of new music) on Spotify and Spotify compiled this list of my…
As every year, I'm sharing with you my top 10 of books I read in the past year. At the time of writing this, I've worked my way through 61 books, which is roughly the same as in 2019, but…
As I read the post "Help me sort out our schedule" on Something Remarkable, I found it OK to share with her some things that worked for us. Here's what I wrote - it may help you as well if…
At our research group in Delft, we often have user committees for the PhD projects. These user committees are made up of people from the industry and/or government, who meet twice a year to give feedback on the practical aspects…
Some time ago, on one of my posts, I received the following comment/question. Hi, I have read your schedule. And I draw some kind of inspiration from it. Currently I am into research. I am pursuing Masters. I just want…
I recorded an online lecture for IABSE. The full version is available to members online. Here's the trailer: You can find the slides of the presentation here: Load testing of structures from Eva Lantsoght
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