We recently pulished a paper in Engineering Structures about the distribution of shear stresses that you can use in finite element models of reinforced concrete slabs for assessment. The title of the paper is "Distribution of peak shear stress in…
Today, I am interviewing Rebecca Gelding for the "How I Work" series. Rebecca is a PhD student investigating music cognition, specifically what is going on in the brain as people imagine music. She began part time in Feb 2013, as…
At the ACI Spring Convention in Detroit, MI, I gave a presentation in the committee meeting of ACI 437. In this presentation, I gave a quick overview of the research we've been doing in the Netherlands related to load testing.…
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…
For a reason I am not aware of, this post about binaural beats is one of the most visited and commented posts on my blog. I also recently receive some questions about the topic. Recently, I received the following question.Hi…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Annelies Van de Ven in the "How I Work" series. Annelies started out her academic career studying classical archaeology at the University of St Andrews, but soon found her way into reception and…
Time for some more Q&A! I recently received the following question:I'm a PhD student from Country X. I found one of your posts when I was looking for the information about doctoral thesis form in Belgium. In Country Xit is…
I recently received the following email from a reader (edited for anonymity):Hi,I am invited to participate in a roundtable discussion next month, and I was wondering if you have any tips for participants. I am a PhD candidate and the…
Last November, I received the great news from Universidad San Francisco de Quito that I got tenured after a "concurso de merecimientos y oposicion". Not only did I receive my tenure, which in Ecuador can come at the Associate Professor…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Echo Rivera in the "How I Work" series. Echo is the owner of Creative Research Communication (CRC) and a research associate at a nonprofit research/evaluation center in Denver, CO. Her passion is…
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