Farewell Party Gallery

DTU, 18 Jan. 2024 (notice the snow outside)

Master of ceremonies: Allan Larsen.

Looking at that railway book

with Jasmine Lam and Parsa Parvasi

Aleka with Sotiria Lagouvardou

with Oli Madsen and David Pisinger

with Erik Styhr Petersen

with Harry Bingham

with Vasiliki Zisi, Nicolas Campion and Baptiste Coutton

with Mette Sanne Hansen

with Poul Woodall

Thank you for the gifts

VIDEOS

MY SPEECH:

I would like 1^st of all to thank Allan and Jesper for organizing this event and all of you for coming.

For me, this is a bit of a bittersweet occasion. On the one hand I feel sad that my active time at DTU and of all my academic career has ended. On the other hand I feel a sense of satisfaction that it went generally well. My academic career started close to 45 yrs ago, when I started as an Assistant Prof. at MIT (1979). 10 years later I moved to Greece and NTUA (1989) and I came to DTU after 24 years, in 2013. In between, I spent 5.5 years as CEO of the port of Piraeus.

Incidentally, DTU was not my 1^st collaboration with Denmark. That one started around 1990 (approx. 35 yrs ago), in the context of preparing the ATOMOS project, an EU project of which most partners were from Denmark. ATOMOS was my 1^st EU project, which started in 1992. There were as many as 4 editions of ATOMOS, which ended in 2003, and as many as 25 EU projects overall. 

My 1^st link with DTU was when Oli Madsen visited MIT for his sabbatical in 1986, ie some 38 yrs ago. Obviously at that point in time I would never imagine that I would come to DTU!

 So it has been quite a journey, and I am happy that DTU was associated with the last part of my active career. I am grateful for the opportunity, and I want to thank all colleagues, students, and the management of the Department for their excellent collaboration.

 What happens next? It is unlikely I will completely shut down, even though obviously it will not be at the same pace as before. I may still write a paper from time to time. I will also occasionally come to see you guys, and attend the cake meetings, which I will miss very much.

Thank you again.

PS for a look at my career, see HERE