Last year, I read about the idea of having one day per month to think and strategize - and I found the idea so attractive that I decided to implement it for myself. I may not have the time to…
After many times of referring to some career changes that require preparation, discussions, interviews and more, I can finally announce that per April 1st (no joke!) I have been promoted to associate professor on a part-time basis at Delft University…
My most recent think day was cut short, but it still packed a punch. I'm sharing here the prompts and activities that I used to think about the next steps in my career, an dhow to balance my own research…
As we are discussing adhering more strictly to a four-year limit for PhD candidates, I am thinking again about how much time it takes to become an independent researcher. I've written in the past about how I estimated that it…
I have used a fair number of strategies for email over the past years. For most of the time in recent years, I have used folders of different activities in my mailbox, and then assigned time on a weekly basis…
I am now two generations away from my current undergraduate students, and I find it hard to understand the pandemic/Tik Tok generation. (I also don't use TikTok myself - the last "new" social media platform I joined was Instagram and…
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…
As I am chewing on some of my teaching methods, I am, as a blogger, chewing publicly. So, bear with me as I am writing a slew of posts related to teaching these days. One of the things I go…
When I was a student, the technology in teaching was limited: announcements were placed "ad valvas" on a cork board in the main hall, and most teachers still used overhead projectors for the drawings. And, while I think the core…
When I started teaching, I worried a lot about doing everything "right". Over the years, I have learned that worrying about my teaching does not help - there are simply things you cannot predict in advance. And, while I always…
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