Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Zarrar Salahuddin to share more about the PhD defense in Pakistan. Zarrar is currently a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, at the School of Chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME), National University of Sciences…
I enjoy reading, and I read a fair number of books for pleasure. For research, I am strong advocate for developing good reading habits.But today, I don't want to discuss the importance of reading in academia - I've made my…
I recently received an excellent question from a reader, which I'd like to address in a Q&A post.The question is:Hi Eva, I have been reading your posts, especially those on organising time and plan tasks. It has helped a lot…
One of my main insights of the past years, and sometimes causes for stress, is the understanding that as a professor, work is never done. I don't recall a day in the last ten years, when I closed my computer…
I virtually always listen to music while I am working - my noise-cancelling headphones help me to do what they are supposed to do: block out noise. And then I listen to music - a broad variety of music as…
After reading Digital Minimalism, I set out to do a 30-day digital detox. The social media network that felt the least satisfying to me at that time was Facebook, so I disabled my account. I put my phone on silent,…
Recently, I collaborated with colleagues in Brazil within the scope of the PhD research of the first author of this paper, published in Structural Concrete. You can access the paper here.The abstract of the article is as follows:The calibration of…
In June, I gave a presentation from the ACI Student Chapter of UAC, Universidad Andina del Cusco. Because of COVID19, the presentation took place online. I gave an overview on research advances in structural concrete, from the mix level to…
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 the midst of the coronavirus crisis and learning (again - what was I even thinking) that politics at the global stage (winking at you, though, Finland) is, after all something for old white dudes, I decided to run a…
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