The end of the year is approaching rapidly, and as usual the last pre-Christmas week is being used to tie up all those loose ends, that had been left untended during the last quarter of the year. Let me use this moment to wish you all a wonderful holiday season, with lots of cookies, regeneration, and new inspiration for the new year! Thank you for having been part of my journey during 2024, and I am looking forward sharing many more wonderful moments with you in the year to come.
If I look back at 2024, then I remember of course my PhD-defence at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. On 22 March, my doctoral project culminated in this exciting public event, featuring so many respected scholars of the field. It was so special, I will keep it very dear to my heart for the years to come. Here I would like to once again thank my “former” supervisors Per Högselius, Kati Lindström and Anna Storm for their ongoing support, but also all the other colleagues and friends that made all of this possible. I hope you are doing well, wherever you are right now! While I am at it: Domingos Jaime Langa had defended his PhD two days ago: stort grattis, Domingos!
Apart from that, my 2024 had been characterised by me moving back to Germany and trying to set up shop in Darmstadt – so far with mixed success (privately super successful, careerwise not). As some of you know, I am searching for my next position, which turns out to be exciting in itself. My next position is supposed to have a greater positive impact on society, allowing me to use what I learned so far for the benefit of society, of plants, and of animals on this planet. Despite multiple job interviews so far, the proper match has not been made yet. So if you stumble across a suitable job offer, please share it with me. But – and I am super grateful for that – I was able to recover from the hardships of the last years and feel pretty good, ready to take on the next big task. That was not self-evident in March. Therefore, I am super curious what 2025 will have in store for me in this regard.
2025 will already have a move to another city in store for me. Apart from that the future is yet unwritten, or “the future is wide open“! 🙂 In any case I continue to work on my next publications, which will be two scientific articles based in nuclear energy history of Ukraine. I am also thinking about the theme for my next book and while I produce lots of ideas, I yet have to conceptualise everything into a concrete plan. I am also playing around with the thought of starting a podcast on political events, focussing on Eastern Europe. Maybe 2025 is the year when I should finally start this. Anyway, I will let you know.
So, once again, Merry Christmas! I am looking forward to a beautiful and productive 2025 with you!
PS: Here is some shameless self-advertisement. I hope you might endure this 🙂 – All my publications of 2024:
Scientific Texts
Conference Presentations
Klüppelberg, Achim: Joining the Dnieper Cascade. Hydro-Nuclear Entanglements along Ukraine’s Largest River, 1950-2024, Conference Presentation (online) at: 11th Tensions of Europe Conference, Frankfurt (Oder, Germany), 20 September 2024.
Högselius, Per/ Lehtonen, Markku/ Lindström, Kati/ Meyer, Jan-Henrik/ Klüppelberg, Achim/ Evens, Siegfried: The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Historical Perspective, Roundtable at the Teknik- och Vetenskapshistoriska Dagar, Stockholm 13 June 2024.
Klüppelberg, Achim: Joining the Dnieper Cascade. Hydro-Nuclear Entanglements Along Ukraine’s Largest River, 1950-2024, Presentation at Teknik- och Vetenskapshistoriska Dagar 2024, Stockholm 13 June 2024.
Interviews
Talks
Klüppelberg, Achim: Der Energiekomplex Südukraine. Eine Kombination aus Landwirtschaft, Wasser- und Atomkraft, presentation at Technikgeschichte über Mittag (KIT Karlsruhe, TU Dresden and Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte e.V.), 31 May 2024.
Klüppelberg, Achim: Hydro-Nuclear Entanglements in Soviet Ukraine, Presentation at the CHORUS Seminar Series, online on 18 April 2024.
Non-scientific
Klüppelberg, Achim: Warum stehen Atomkraftwerke meist am Wasser? Sowjetische Atomindustrie, in: Schwedische Kirche, Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde: Gemeindeblatt, 3 (2024), 10-12.
Klüppelberg, Achim: Zum Geleit. Unsere Reise, in: Schwedische Kirche, Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde: Gemeindeblatt, 3 (2024), 3-4.
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