My colleagues and myself recently published a paper titled "Full-size field test of prestressed concrete T-beam bridge" and presented this at the European Bridge Conference in Edinburgh.The abstract is as follows:In the Netherlands, approximately 150 prestressed T-beam bridges with cast-in-between…
A post about summer holidays in December? Why, Eva, why? Well - I ran a poll about summer holidays a while back and I schedule posts months ahead of time, so that's why this post is here. but let's take…
Today, I am interviewing Joni Gilissen in the "How I Work" series. Joni (°1990) holds a degree in Social Work, a master’s degree in Social Policy and a postgraduate degree in Social Profit and Public Management. She is working for…
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, Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs shares her experience of the PhD Defense. Dr. Jacobs is a professor of biology at Guelph University with research interests in seabird foraging ecology and biology education. Seated around the table was the cast of the…
Today, I am interviewing Dr. Diogo Aguiam in the "How I Work" series.Current Job: In between jobs in researchCurrent Location: Braga, PortugalCurrent mobile device: Nexus 5xCurrent computer: Macbook Pro (Mid 2012) Can you briefly explain your current situation and research…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter on the use of first person in academic writing. This poll was by large the most-voted poll I've ever organized, and the discussion was lively as well. The majority of the people that…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to learn more about the most common career paths after the PhD. While three of the options that I listed are perhaps the textbook options (postdoc, assistant prof - directly assistant prof -…
My colleagues and I published two papers in the recent ACI SP-323 "Evaluation of Concrete Bridge Behavior through Load Testing – International Perspectives", of which Dr. Pinar Okumus and myself were coeditors.The two papers are: SP-323—1: ASSESSMENT OF SLAB BRIDGES…
For some reason, I always thought a doctoral thesis is about 100,000 words in length (and I've taken that number as a reference for my book as well). However, I wanted to test this assumption, so I ran a poll…
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