Personal Interests

I guess the initial reason for building this site was to host my publications and to write down some of my thoughts on risk and my other research interests.

I do not plan to update this part of the website any soon. Like all people I have a few hobbies which I do sporadically lately. There are others that I haven't done for ages like bicycling or stamp collecting. I still have my huge collection of stamps and a smaller one of coins but they don't get much of attention.

ART
I like painting - lately using acrylics ('cause I dont have much time) but I prefer the smell of oil paint which I use when I have time ;-)  My favorite artist is Wassily Kandinsky . Kandisky was also a founder of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a german Expressionistic movement.
Maybe in the future I will upload some of my works. I dont think that I am a good painter - it's just a hobby. Webpages are created to be seen by somebody - that's you!  Like that, art is created to be seen and evoke an emotion and trust me, it is been by those

COMPUTERS
I use computers a lot ! Using the internet to find sources for my research, software to do calculations and so on. I started with programming (Pascal for ever !) in 1994, I think, when I got my first computer, an Hewlett Packard i486/25 Mhz.  Anyways, I do a lot of stuff ... that much that I do not have time and space to write about ;_)

MUSIC
Well, I can't play any musical instrument. But I am a huge fun of music. My favorite genres are rock and pop. I can stand jazz and blues too ;-)  

FRIENDS
The most important part of my life is interacting with other human beings ;-)  I have a lot of friends and I have spend a couple of years being involved in BEST ( Board of European Students of Technology) where I met a lot of people and travelled though Europe.