My current workout routine
I wrote about my current workout routine recently, and there are a few things to add. Of course, I travel a fair amount, and then it is difficult to keep up my routine. Secondly, during the months that I am…
Think day on how to use AI in my workflows
I recently carved out some time to think about how I want to incorporate AI into my workflows. Here's the template that I used for this thinking: Goal: Identify the most impactful ways to integrate ChatGPT into my workflow over…
One year of being an associate professor
It has been a year (and a bit) since I got promoted to associate professor at TU Delft. What has changed between being an assistant professor and associate? There is a bit more coordination and collaboration, but all in all,…
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: Lessons learned from failed grant applications
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…
Between pushing forward and resting
Work has been intense in these past months. I am throwing spaghetti to the wall and applying for every possible type of funding - I need at least one, and ideally two, big projects to get funded so that I…
Explorations in committee organization
I have reflected in the past on how my roles in committees have changed over time - all in line with me rolling off from a leadership position for the first time. Time flies - that is for sure. It…
Changing roles in committees
My roles in technical committees have changed quite some over the past years: Visitor: I started attending committee meetings as a visitor. Associate member (or Friend): As most technical committees have tiers in membership, I started as an associate member…
Think day on aligning work with university vision
When I did my University Teaching Qualification, we briefly looked at the vision of TU Delft on education. Since then, I have wanted to take a deeper dive into the vision and mission of the university, and reflect on what…
GenAI now
I thought we had gotten into calmer waters with generative AI, but DeepSeek, the plunge of Nvidia stock, and the launch of o-3 mini showed me that I was very wrong. And yet - I feel a certain fatigue, a…
Broadly contributing
In the past, my research lines were very well defined. I started with the shear capacity of reinforced concrete slabs under concentrated loads. Gradually, I expanded to other shear problems, punching, torsion, and assessment of reinforced concrete slab bridges. Then,…