Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Rasha Shanaz in the "How I Work" series. Rasha Shanaz is a PhD student of Theoretical Physics at Bharathidasan University, India. She works on Chaos Theory and uses Machine Learning to predict patterns…
Today marks ten years since I started this blog as a budding PhD student. In the past then years, I got my PhD, did three post-docs, got tenure in Ecuador, got tenure in the Netherlands, married, became a parent, and…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing coach Marcus Christiansen. Marcus is a coach living in Bangkok, Thailand, who helps professionals find work-life balance, inner peace and happiness by helping them grow to be their authentic self, achieve their goals…
I recently received the following question, which may be relevant for all readers:Hi Eva,I am currently done reading your wonderful book about the PhD trajectory and I have a couple of questions regarding your book; it's about the gaps in…
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…
I recently received an interesting reader question(edited for anonymity):Assalamu alaikum (Peace be upon you). Greeting from Far Away.Thank you Dr Eva for your valuable blog. I am going to start my PhD abroad soon. I need to know the minimum…
One tool I use a lot is the Pomodone app for the pomodoro technique. You can use it on your desktop, or your phone - it's a cloud-based application. What sets the free version of Pomodone (I haven't tried the…
Here's my template for the fall semester. I use color coding for the different major activities: writing, research, email+admin, appointments, MSc + PhD student appointments, service, workouts, personal time.The date range you are seeing in September has one particularity, which…
I've been writing about finding more joy in the past, and on how my focus changed from trying to log one enjoyable thing per day to creating memories.As I am writing this, in a pandemic that will stretch on for…
I lowered my expectations for the summer semester, but it still hit me hard that I had to teach every day for 8 weeks. Surprisingly, I had not included the goals turn my course into a blended flexible course, program…
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