My student Belkis Filian recently traveled to Poland to present her research at the fib symposium in Krakow.The title of her work was: "Shear capacity of steel fibre reinforced concrete beams". We also worked with my TU Delft colleague Yuguang…
I recently read "Why we sleep" by Matthew Walker, and it reminded me of how important sleep is, and how devastating sleeping just a little bit less than what we need can already be. As a mom of a toddler…
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, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Ayesha Scott. Dr Scott joined the AUT Business School, Finance Department in October 2016. She obtained her PhD in Financial Econometrics in July 2016 from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, and…
My colleagues and I recently published a paper "Optimizing Finite Element Models for Concrete Bridge Assessment With Proof Load Testing" in Frontiers in the Built Environment - Bridge Engineering for the Research Topic Diagnostic and Proof Load Testing on Bridges.The…
My colleagues and I published a paper in the BEI (Bridge Engineering Institute) Conference proceedings. In the end, none of us could make the trip to the conference, even though I had originally co-organized a mini symposium in this conference…
My coauthors and I just published a paper titled "Interviewing and Hiring Practices in Brazilian Academia: Proposals Towards Improvement". It's open access, so you can read the full text here.You can read my blog post about the preprint here.The abstract…
I'm currently co-authoring a book about the PhD defense, and one of the points we are covering is advice for the PhD defense from the point of view of the examiners. The majority of testimonies in the "PhD Defenses around…
I've been thinking about the topic of napping lately. As I was reading Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, which shows that high-achievers in the past built naps into their daily schedules, and later Why we sleep by Matthew Walker, which…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Jack Whitter-Jones. Jack is a PhD Student and part time lecturer at the University of South Wales, where he researches Security Operations which encompasses Cyber Security, Machine Learning and Automation. During term time…
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