AWARD PICTURE GALLERY

Random pictures from some awards that I have received.  For full list see HERE.

1969, Honorary Award, contest of the Hellenic Mathematical Society. Can you spot me in the pic?

(more on that contest HERE) 

1979, Henry L. Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization, MIT Sea Grant (1979-1981). From L to R: Ira Dyer, Alfred Keil, Robert Seamans, HNP, Walter Rosenblith, Dean Horn. 

1979, First Prize, PhD dissertation contest, Transportation Science Section of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). From L to R: John Little, Richard Rothery, HNP. 

2010, the second Lloyds List award to the NTUA Lab for Maritime Transport (LMT). With David Moorehouse, CBE. 

The two Lloyds List awards to NTUA LMT (2008 and 2010)

2011, Eykranti award for the best representation of the Greek Shipping Industry (together with P. Zachariadis). From L to R: HNP, Panos Zachariadis, Vasileios Tselentis, Costas Chlomoudis.

2019, MEL Palgrave MacMillan IAME 2019 best conference paper award for paper “Speed optimization vs speed reduction: the speed limit debate”, IAME 2019 conference, Athens, Greece.

2019, IAME 2019 Conference Best Reviewer Award. With Manolis Kavussanos.

2021 Green4SEA Personality Award (video). Presented by Athena Kanellatou.

2022 Confederation of European Maritime Technology Societies Award

Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain- Best Research Article Award 2023 for paper "Ship speed vs power or fuel consumption: are laws of physics still valid? Regression analysis pitfalls and misguided policy implications." 

PSEXIT FAQs

PSEXIT: Acronym for "Psaraftis exit" (retirement)

Below are some FAQs related to Psexit, in random order:

Which has been your favorite research project?

At MIT, a project developing graphics software for mathematical programming courses, in the context of project Athena. It died a natural death after I left MIT.

At NTUA, the 3 EU projects that I coordinated:

Concerted action on short sea shipping

EU MOP project

FP7 project SuperGreen 

At DTU, project MBM SUSHI.

Which has been your favorite paper?

Psaraftis, H.N., “On the Practical Importance of Asymptotic Optimality in Certain Heuristic Algorithms,” Networks 14, No.4 587-596, 1984.

This paper did not get a lot of citations, but it has been my favorite. It was not funded by any project.

Which has been the best moment in your career?

Receiving tenure at MIT, one of the top universities in the world. That happened in 1985, six years after I started as Assistant Professor. Four years afterwards, I quit MIT to return to Greece.

Which has been the worst moment in your career?

Some cases in the port of Piraeus (1996-2002), in which I felt like been run over by a truck full of stones. Still, I managed to survive, and do something positive there.

What has been the most gratifying moment?

Not sure. There have been many, at MIT, at NTUA, and at DTU. Also the Piraeus stint was gratifying in retrospect, even though I would never want to do it again.

What was the biggest surprise of your academic career?

That in 10.5 years at DTU I would publish more papers than in all my previous (around 35) years at MIT and NTUA combined. Also I published 2 books. It was not planned. 

What will you mostly miss upon retirement?

Not sure, remains to be seen. 

What will you not miss?

The hectic pace of academic life including lots of business travel and particularly the pressing need to write research proposals.

Anything else we should know?

I am a big rail fan (since I was a child). Maybe I went into the wrong profession. 

Any more questions not covered in the FAQ set?

Send me an email at hnpsar@gmail.com and I will try to answer.

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