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…
As every year, here's my list of 10 favorite albums of the year!This year, I've created a Spotify playlist with all albums I enjoyed this year (many many many!):But if I have to choose, here's my top 10:10. Avatarium -…
As every year, I am compiling here my top 10 of books that I read in the past year. As I am writing this post mid December, I have read 59 books so far, or 18321 pages in total. It's…
My colleagues Ane de Boer and Max Hendriks and I recently sent a paper for presentation for the IABSE 2019 symposium in New York. Dr. De Boer presented our work at the conference. The title of the paper was "Improvements…
Today, I am interviewing Dr. Anna Clemens. Anna is a scientific writing coach and editor with a PhD in chemistry/materials science. She helps scientists to write better papers and grant proposals in less time and regularly blogs about scientific writing.…
My student Belkis Filian recently traveled to Poland to present her research at the fib symposium in Krakow.The title of her work was: "Shear capacity of steel fibre reinforced concrete beams". We also worked with my TU Delft colleague Yuguang…
I recently read "Why we sleep" by Matthew Walker, and it reminded me of how important sleep is, and how devastating sleeping just a little bit less than what we need can already be. As a mom of a toddler…
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