I recently ran a poll about inbox zero, as I've been trying to maintain my Inbox Zero again, after not being able to do so for nearly 11 months. My poll focused on how many of us have or try…
My colleagues and I recently published a paper in Applied Sciences, Special Issue Fatigue and Fracture of Non-metallic Materials and Structures titled "Fatigue Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Slab-Between-Girder Bridges". You can download the open access paper here. If you're interested…
It has happened to me a number of times: (anonymous) reviewers who not-so-gently ask me to cite their work as part of a revision of my manuscript. I'm not talking about reviewers who suggest publications I may have missed, from…
My collaborators and I recently published two papers related to the topic of fatigue in slab-between-girder bridges. These paper are published in the ACI Structural Journal, Vol 116 nr 4. The two papers deal with two series of experiments: the…
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…
Today, I am hosting Dr. Steve Tippins from Beyond PhD Coaching to share his thoughts on being a committee member. You may also remember that I recently interviewed Dr. Tippins for the "How I Work" series.The reason that most of…
Today, I am interviewing Munirah Al Ajlan for the "How I Work" series. Munirah is an English Language Instructor in the College of Engineering and Petroleum in Kuwait University. She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from University of Newcastle…
Dominique Maciejewski did her bachelors in psychology in Wuppertal, Germany. In 2011, she came to the Netherlands for an internship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It was supposed to be a 3-month internship, but Dominique really liked the Netherlands and…
Dominique Maciejewski did her bachelors in psychology in Wuppertal, Germany. In 2011, she came to the Netherlands for an internship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It was supposed to be a 3-month internship, but Dominique really liked the Netherlands and…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter about social media platforms for research. For a long time, I kept both my ResearchGate and Academia.edu profiles up to date, but I always preferred the interface of ResearchGate, even though I've had…
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