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3-minute summary of my PhD journey

Lessons that I learned from my first PhD poster presentation

Last month, I attended  the PhD day in BAM together with other three ESRs ( Xin Wang, Joyraj Chakraborty, Imane Bayane ). I presented my poster here based on my paper " Damage detection and deteriorating structural systems ". I got some comments and feedback that I would like to share with all of you in this post. Preparing your welcoming sentence At first, I just stood besides my poster and I was thinking people may ask me if they have any questions. But the truth is if you don't speak, viewers will quickly pass through your poster and move to the next stand. So it is better to take the initiative to talk to others. It may be little embarrassing for you at the beginning, but you have to be brave to sell yourself and your ideas.  If you prepare a good welcoming sentence, things will become much easier. Since my poster is about quantification the damage detection value of a bridge to help make better decision, so I opened my speech with the