A-Z of the PhD Trajectory

Dr. Lantsoght graduated with a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) in 2008. She later earned a Master's degree in Structural Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) in 2009 and the title of Doctor in Structural Engineering from Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, the Netherlands) in 2013. The work experience of Dr. Lantsoght includes design work in structural and bridge engineering in Belgium and working as an independent consultant in structural engineering in Ecuador (Adstren). In the academic field, Dr. Lantsoght is a full professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Quito, Ecuador) and a researcher at Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, Netherlands). Her field of research is the design and analysis of concrete structures and analysis of existing bridges. She blogs at PhD Talk about her research and topics related to higher education and academia.

• 1. Introduction.- 2.  Getting started with a PhD.- 3. Planning your time.- 4. Developing your literature review.- 5. Formulating your research question.- 6. Preparing and executing experiments.- 7. Honing your academic writing skills.- 8. Presenting your work.- 9. Communicating science in the 21st century.- 10.  Preparing for your first conference.- 11. Writing your first journal article.- 12. Compiling your work into a dissertation.- 13. Navigating career options after your PhD.- 14. Epilogue.- Glossary.