During your PhD, you certainly aren't bathing in luxury. Even if you have funding for your research, and are paid a salary that keeps you alive, most likely, you just get by.Buying kitchen appliances, unexpected health bills, car repair costs…
Mens sana in corpore sano. A healthy mind in a healthy body - we all know that to be at our very best, our bodies need to be healthy.Kim Lyons makes it sound all so logical and easy in this…
Our paper "Shear in One-Way Slabs under Concentrated Load Close to Support" is now available online at the website of the American Concrete Institute and will be published in the March/April 2013 version of the ACI Structural Journal.Getting this paper…
Before I started graduate school, and got acquainted with academic writing, I enjoyed writing poetry and short stories. Over the course of graduate school, I’ve documented my journey in this blog. These different styles of writing have merged into my…
At the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, I've presented in the session of "Topics in Concrete Bridges". You can find the slides of my presentation here: Assessment of the Shear Capacity of Existing Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab…
Ladies and gentleman, this is the beginning of the end! I am scheduled to defend my PhD thesis onJune 14th 2013 at 12:30 pmat the Senaatszaal in the TU Delft Aula.During a defense at Delft University of Technology, the PhD…
Your first abstract has been accepted, and you are feeling overwhelmed with joy as you’ll be able to present your work for the very first time to an interested audience.But then you stop for a moment and realize that you’ll…
Flickr image under CC license by Go Interactive WellnessIf you need a little pick-me-up, or you want to be nice to your body after sitting behind your computer for more than an entire day and get some stretching, this post…
Our paper "Spreiding puntlasten plaatviaducten" in the Dutch magazine "Cement" has been nominated as 1 of the 6 papers that might make it as paper of the year.You can find the announcement here.Voting goes on this page. It'd be super…
For the Writers' Lab, I invited the multi-talented writer Shawndra Russell to share her advice on writing, and on being a productive writer.Shawndra is a former high school English teacher turned author, releasing Couple Friends in August 2012. She is…
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