In 2018, I was co-author of two papers on the topic of the arched strut - both were presented by my colleague Dr. Alexander.The first paper, presented at the conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges in Quebec City, looks…
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…
On a lighter note, I recently ran a poll on Twitter to see what most of us use for writing - and, not surprisingly, the ballpoint pen won the poll! I like writing with a fountain pen and until the…
Today, in the subseries about academic parents in the "How I Work" series, I am interviewing Dr. Suzan Verberne. Suzan Verberne (1980) grew up in Twente in the east of the Netherlands. In 1998 she started her academic education at…
Today, I am starting a new subseries within the "How I Work" series - a series for academic parents. My first contributor is Dr. Misty Paig-Tran. Misty Paig-Tran, PhD. is an Assistant Professor of Biology and runs the Functional Anatomy,…
Today's post is a guest post by Annemarie Hildegard Eckes. Annemarie is a PhD student in Biogeography at the department of Geography in Cambridge, working with all sorts of data and formats: Climate data in .netcdf, and .txt format. Tree…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to learn how we start our days in the office. I usually make my coffee (I have to hurry so much to get out of the door in the morning that I don't…
Today, Dr. Miguel Abambres shares his experiences of the PhD defense. Miguel is a passionate Portuguese scientist, born in Lisbon in 1984 (Leo), and also a cat guy who loves traveling and teaching. He received his degree in Civil/Structural engineering…
Eleven countries in Europe formed cOAlition-S, with as its basic principle: "After 1 January 2020 scientific publications on the results from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published 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…
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