On Friday afternoon, 22 March 2024, I defended my PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In hindsight it was a marvellous day, with so many people thinking of me and participating in this event that marked the end of the journey I embarked on 15 October 2018. A huge “Thank you!” to all of you!
Here I would like to extend my thanks explicitely to my opponent Melanie Arndt and the committee members Florence Fröhlig, Laurent Coumel, and Viktor Pál, as well as to Aliaksandr Piahanau who acted as replacement committee member. Furthermore – and once again because it is well deserved – to my three supervisors Per Högselius, Kati Lindström, and Anna Storm.
After the defence we headed to the division at Teknikringen 74D for a mingle, while we waited for the results of the discussion of the committee. I was very happy when Florence Fröhlig declared that I had passed. What a moment! Afterwards my supervisors gave me truly memorable speeches and the division sang a self-written song (tradition that is!) which was amazing.
It still has not really registered that I have truly finished this project. Tomorrow will be my last day at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, to which I will fondly look back, with so many impressive memories. After Easter I will still work on tying up a few lose ends and then I will rest for half a year, which is desperately needed. From September onwards I will start working again, finding a new position and further developing my ideas and what I learned.
If I still have not responded to your kind email or message, I will certainly do so in the near future. Please bare with me, as everything was a bit overpowering. I sincerely appreciate every single one of them!
If you want to read the Kappa, you find it here.
If you want a physical copy, please drop me a message.
Achim Klüppelberg 