I recently gave a presentation for the University of Chimborazo (UNACH) on the recent testing of prestressed girders we did in Delft. You can find the slides here Pruebas de cortante en vigas postensadas from Eva Lantsoght
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…
I recently gave a second presentation for ANEIC (the Ecuadorian association of civil engineering students) titled "Pruebas de carga en puentes de hormigón armado". You can find the slides here: Pruebas de carga en puentes de hormigón armado from Eva…
Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Zarrar Salahuddin to share more about the PhD defense in Pakistan. Zarrar is currently a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, at the School of Chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME), National University of Sciences…
I enjoy reading, and I read a fair number of books for pleasure. For research, I am strong advocate for developing good reading habits.But today, I don't want to discuss the importance of reading in academia - I've made my…
I recently received an excellent question from a reader, which I'd like to address in a Q&A post.The question is:Hi Eva, I have been reading your posts, especially those on organising time and plan tasks. It has helped a lot…
One of my main insights of the past years, and sometimes causes for stress, is the understanding that as a professor, work is never done. I don't recall a day in the last ten years, when I closed my computer…
I virtually always listen to music while I am working - my noise-cancelling headphones help me to do what they are supposed to do: block out noise. And then I listen to music - a broad variety of music as…
After reading Digital Minimalism, I set out to do a 30-day digital detox. The social media network that felt the least satisfying to me at that time was Facebook, so I disabled my account. I put my phone on silent,…
Recently, I collaborated with colleagues in Brazil within the scope of the PhD research of the first author of this paper, published in Structural Concrete. You can access the paper here.The abstract of the article is as follows:The calibration of…
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