Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Moustafa Gabr with a guest post about selecting your research topic. Dr. Gabr is a recent PhD graduate in chemistry from University of Iowa. He completed his undergraduate studies in pharmaceutical sciences…
My collaborators and myself recently published a paper titled "Stop Criteria for Flexure for Proof Load Testing of Reinforced Concrete Structures" in Frontiers in Built Environment - Bridge Engineering.The work in this paper was sponsored by my Chancellor grant of…
I recently published a paper in Materials titled "Database of Shear Experiments on Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams without Stirrups". This is my first paper as a single author, of one of my new research projects in Ecuador related to…
As I recently received the invitation to review a paper of which the abstract was poorly written, I was pondering what I should do: - I don't like slogging through a poorly written paper - it makes review so much…
For those of you who have been following this blog for a while, you know that I think planning is an essential skill to get work done. I plan at different levels, and the tools that I use for this…
I recently ran a poll to see if most of us have clean or messy desks - or something in between. I work at four desks: my home, my office in Ecuador, my office in the Netherlands, and my room…
On March 14th, I gave a presentation for the opening of the academic year as part of the XV week of Postgraduate Studies for the School of Engineering at Universidade de Sao Paolo in Sao Carlos. The topic of this…
Lately, I've been receiving emails from Elsevier, telling me that they are sending take-down notices to ResearchGate for papers that I have privately stored on the RG servers. These are not papers that are ready for download at one click…
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…
While I was reading The Shallows I ran a poll on Twitter to see if others recognize themselves in what this book mentions: that all the reading we do online results in us being unable to concentrate on long stretches…
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