Today I have the pleasure of inviting Sheree Bekker who shares her take on academic workflows with us. Sheree is originally from South Africa, and is now based in Australia as an international PhD scholar at the Australian Centre for…
Happy Holidays, dear readers!I hope you all can take some rest, let go of your research, and recharge your batteries. I'll be heading home to Belgium to spend a week with my friends and family over Christmas, and then celebrate…
At the beginning of 2014, I wrote quite an ambitious list of goals for 2014. Since I shared this list publicly, I wanted to take a moment to discuss what happened to all these goals. Somewhere in April, I already…
Last summer, I spent a week helping out with the load testing of a bridge in the North of the Netherlands, in Friesland. Prior to that, I spent a couple of months making predictions of the capacity of the bridge…
In the latest issue of the ACI Structural Journal, we have published a paper that describes a series of experiments we carried out on slab strips.The abstract of the paper is:Code provisions for one-way shear assume a linear relation between…
Today, we're returning to the Writer's Lab. Tamara Girardi shares with us how she managed to finish her dissertation, with a baby in her arms. Tamara holds a PhD in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, It Can…
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, Rebecca Pollet shares her academic schedule with us. Rebecca is a 4th year PhD candidate in Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include crystallography and how the human gut microbiome affects our…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Samar Almossa who shares her academic schedule with us. Samar is a second year PhD student at King’s College London, Department of Education and Professional study. She works as a lecturer at Umm…
Today, Genevieve is sharing her academic schedule with us. Genevieve is a physicist in Melbourne, Australia. She works in an area of medical physics, primarily looking at the lungs and brain. She’s on twitter, too: @LuminescentFish.I’m a research assistant, paid…
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