I recently gave a guest lecture at my alma mater, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. You can also find some photographs of this even on the Facebook page of the group Mechanics of Materials and Constructions. The abstract for the presentation was…
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…
I recently gave a presentation at IALCCE 2016, the Fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, which was organized in Delft, the Netherlands. We organized a mini-symposium about proof load testing, which I co-chaired with some of my colleagues. The…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Dr. Lola Fariñas to talk about her defense in Spain. Lola is currently a Spanish postdoc fellow at Harvard University. Her background is Telecommunication Engineering however, she got her MSc degree in Biomedical…
I recently gave a presentation at the ACI Convention in Philadelphia, during the joint ACI-fib symposium on punching shear. This presentation is related to the publication of an ACI Special Publication. The abstract of my talk was as follows: The…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Sophie C. Kromholz in the "How I Work" series. Sophie is an art historian, creative explorer, and communicator, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis, “The Artwork Is Not Present – An…
Today, I'm hosting Beatriz Gonzalez-Muñoz, with whom I talked on Twitter about working outside of priviliged institutions. Dr. Beatriz Gonzalez-Muñoz is a Chilean scientist with a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Sheffield, UK, where she…
Dear readers, I recently received the following announcement for a paid position for PhD students in the development of online courses. Hope it can be useful for some of you!
Selfie with bff, my personal cheerleaderToday, I have the pleasure of hosting a guest post by Jenny Lendrum. Jenny is a PhD candidate and Rumble Fellow in the department of sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI USA. She…
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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