As I'm chewing over some questions on how to make a bigger impact with my work, I am exploring the possibilities to receive individual coaching. At the same time, I have joined the DrivenWoman network, to get group coaching, and…
With my colleagues in Brazil, we have been working on further analysis of database results. As a result, the paper "Influence of structural system on shear capacity of wide members without shear reinforcement" was accepted for presentation at the virtual…
The covid-19 pandemic brought out the conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers like never before. I feel sad when I see that people in my family believe that scientists are not independent, that our colleagues and friends who are working day and…
Some books I want to read in 2021 I traditionally write out my goals per year and my goals and tasks per semester. I use these lists then to anchor my monthly and weekly tasks that go on my calendar.…
On September 14th 2020, this blog celebrated its 10th birthday. Blogging for 10 years makes me something like a dinosaur left over from the days when blogging for the sake of blogging was more popular than now. If I count…
As some long-term readers of this blog know, I track my work time. I've been tracking my time at work (and sometimes, all my time) since I was a PhD candidate. Here's what my overall time looked like in 2020:…
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…
In September, I had the pleasure of giving a lecture (online) for the 2020 CONEIC conference, of the Peruvian association of civil engineering students. While I could not give the lecture live because I had already planned something else during…
2020 did not turn out what I expected it to be, to say the least. There's been death and grief in my family (husband's side, but even though we are near, still we couldn't attend funerals because of the restrictions,…
As every year, I share my list of best albums that came out this year. I have also curated my list of favorite albums (compiling over 500 hours of new music) on Spotify and Spotify compiled this list of my…
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