I recently gave a presentation at the II SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DEL CEMENTO Y HORMIGÓN at the Universidad de Cuenca. My slides of the presentation are here: Inspeccion, mantenimiento y evaluacion de puentes de hormigon from Eva Lantsoght
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Maria Belen Sathicq to tell us about PhD defenses in Argentina. Maria Belen is an Argentinean biologist, living and working in Italy. She got a B.Sc. degree in Biology, from the Universidad Nacional…
For the year 2019, Miguel Abambres and I won a Collaboration Grant from USFQ. The first paper from this collaboration is titled "ANN-Based Shear Capacity of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Beams without Stirrups". It's open access and published in the journal…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Noelle Sterne with a guest post on dissertation writing. Dissertation coach and nurturer, editor, academic and mainstream writing consultant and soother, author, workshop leader, and spiritual counselor, Noelle Sterne, Ph.D. (Columbia University),…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Felienne Hermans. Felienne is associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University, where she heads the PERL research group, focused on programming education. On Saturdays she teaches children…
As you may have read from my previous post, I tend to plan per semester and per year.For 2020, I hope to do the following things from my list o dreams:1. Build our house2. Visit the Amazon jungle3. Go on…
I've been planning most of my goals per semester, with some goals from my list of 100 dreams for my goals per year.Here's a list of my goals from 2019:1. Visit the Quilotoa loopYes! We went in the spring and…
I've been tracking my time constantly at work since mid 2018, so 2019 is the first year I can analyze my data of an entire year.Here's how I spent my time:service: 269 hoursTeaching: 252 hoursPapers: 203 hoursemail + admin: 197…
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've been working closely together with my colleagues at the Danish University of Technology for quite a while, and am cosupervisor of Christian Christensen. The first paper of this collaboration and the PhD research of Christian was presented at SMAR…
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