Eva Lantsoght

Author: Eva Lantsoght

Completed her engineering degree in civil engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a thesis on buckling of reinforced concrete columns.

Then, went to Georgia Tech for a MS in structural engineering with a Fulbright scholarship and Belgian American Educational Foundation scholarship.

Started blogging when she was a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology in the Concrete Structures Section. Received her PhD Degree In June 2013.

She is now a Full Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), structural engineer at Adstren and a Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology.

Recent blog posts

Ideas for valorization of your research

Our universities encourage us to work on the valorization of our research, may have a dedicated office for it, and potentially have “valorization” as a general category in our annual evaluation. Just like “leadership”, “valorization” is a very broad…

Modernizing our teaching tools

Last month, I wrote about modernizing the contents of our courses. Today, I will focus on the tools we use for teaching. During the pandemic we had to be creative – and we had to modernize our teaching tools whether we wanted it or not. I had to mak…

Modernizing education

As the world is changing, the way we read and consume media is changing, we cannot assume that education will remain the same: someone in the front of a classroom talking for the entire length of the lecture. Many of us have already realized that we…

How to discuss AI tools with students and researchers

This month, I am bringing you the final post in this mini-series about generative AI. I have written about potential use in research and education (as well as some examples of my use), and today I want to talk about talking about it. If you look at …

Opportunities and challenges with ChatGPT in education

Last month, I wrote about some ways in which I have been using generative AI, and ChatGPT 4o in particular for research. This month, and referring you back to all the caveats I mentioned last month, I want to discuss education. At the time of writin…

Opportunities and challenges with ChatGPT in research

Writing a post about ChatGPT is always challenging, as the tool quickly changes and evolves, and the community is equally fast at finding new and better ways to use the tool. At the time of writing this post, GPT 4o has been released, and I have pla…

How to navigate the changing social media landscape as a researcher

Over the past few years, I have written a fair number of posts about how we can communicate our science via social media. When I was a PhD student, I learned a lot about research and managing research on Twitter. Unfortunately, that is not the case …

Tenure Track in the Netherlands

The Tenure Track in the Netherlands is perhaps a relatively new addition to the academic career path in the Netherlands, and it is still subject to change. In Delft, the tenure track was introduced first somewhere around 2012-2013 (the exact year is…

Tips for successful collaborations with government partners

In my field, collaborations with government partners are very common. In fact, the majority of my research projects so far have been funded by and in collaboration with the government (as they own the bridges and need research to address their conce…

Tips for successful collaborations with industry partners

If you want to bring your research into practice, you will be collaborating with partners in the industry. The types of collaborations are as varied as our research projects: from small projects with a consulting focus, to projects that span multipl…