My goals for Summer 2025
As always at the beginning of a new semester, I have outlined my goals for the upcoming semester. I will be dividing my time between Ecuador and the Netherlands, and of course, will take my summer holidays. Here’s what I…
How I organize myself for travel
It's conference season again, so I thought I would give you an insight in how I organize myself for traveling. Generally, I try to take as much of the administrative hassle out of traveling, so that my time goes into…
Evaluation of my Spring 2025 goals
As always at the end of a semester, I am taking a bit of time to see how I did with my goals. Here's my evaluation of my Spring 2025 goals: Submit 4 papers: Yes, and they are under review.…
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: Finding our expertise field as an academic
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…
How I spent my time in Spring 2025
As always, at the end of the semester, I check in my Toggl data how I spent my time. I know that this has been an intense semester, for various reasons, and that I spent a lot of time writing…
Plotting goals for trips
I have changed my approaches to conference travel in recent years. A fair amount of these changes is related to reducing travel commitments to reduce my carbon footprint, as well as make sure I spend the time with my family…
Getting my creative writing published
My creative writing has always been one of my favorite outlets, and something I bonded over with two fellow girls in school, who then became (and still are) my best friends. During my university years, I was still writing, but…
Q&A Carrying out research in a new language
I recently received the following interesting question (edited for anonymity): Dear Eva, I have received your weekly emails for awhile now and they are always so informative! I am a doctoral candidate at XXXX University graduating this spring and hoping…
Leaning in
I am currently totally leaning in to work and my career. I am finalizing a number of research projects this year and hustling to get funding for the next set of projects. My daughter is at an age where she…
PhD opportunities at USFQ
We recently opened our PhD program in advanced materials, which includes construction materials. You can find all information here, and if you are interested in potentially applying for the program to work on concrete materials, let me know!