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Lees alles over het doen van een PhD en het opbouwen van een wetenschappelijke carrière in onze blog. Wetenschappers Eva Lantsoght (professor) en Pranav Kulkarni (PhD) delen hun ervaringen en geven je concrete tips.

Recente blog posts
7 things you should know when communicating with the Dutch
Have you ever made a clumsy communication mistake abroad? I have. I know that the French kiss when meeting each other. What I did not know during my study in France was the exact amount of kisses and on which cheek side you start kissing. I...
17 sep '20
Els - AcademicTransfer
How to manage email as a Professor
Professors receive a lot of email, and professors are notorious about ignoring emails (if I recall well, a piece advice in one of Cal Newport's books is to treat email like a professor - just don't reply if it's not worth it). After a two-week...
3 sep '20
Eva Lantsoght
7 Tips for prospective expat PhD students
In these difficult ‘covid-19’-times, there has been an unprecedented pressure on the expat communities all over the world to secure admissions, and jobs in foreign institutions. The situation in academia is not dissimilar. Universities are also...
20 aug '20
Pranav S. Kulkarni
My experience in writing two books as editor
I acted as the editor of a two-volume set of books titled " Load Testing of Bridges ", which came out about a year ago. These books are part of a series titled Structures and Infrastructures. If you are at the point in your career where you may...
6 aug '20
Eva Lantsoght
How to apply for a PhD position in the Netherlands
For those of you interested in applying for a PhD position in the Netherlands, it's important to know that the procedures in the Netherlands are different from those you commonly read about, for example in the United States. In the United States,...
2 jul '20
Eva Lantsoght
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