Harilaos N. Psaraftis

Harilaos N. Psaraftis is Professor of Maritime Transport at the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NA&ME) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He has a diploma from NTUA (1974), two M.Sc. degrees (1977) and a Ph.D. (1979) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been a faculty member at MIT from 1979 to 1989 (Department of Ocean Engineering, and also affiliated with the Operations Research Center and the Center for Transportation Studies). While at MIT he was awarded the first-prize of the 1979 contest of transport-related PhD theses by the Transportation Science Section of ORSA (the Operations Research Society of America) and the Henry L. Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization (1979-1981). He received tenure at MIT in 1985, but left MIT to return to Greece in 1989. He was Head of NA&ME at NTUA from 1993 to 1995 and served as Director of the Division of Ship Design and Maritime Transport at NA&ME during the academic y