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Harilaos N. Psaraftis
Professor of Marine Transport
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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), and 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 years 2003-2004 and 2007-2008, and as Deputy Head of NA&ME during the academic year 2004-2005. Psaraftis heads the Laboratory for Maritime Transport, an educational and research unit at NTUA informally in place since 1989 and formally approved by the NTUA Senate in 2006.
In addition to his academic endeavors, Psaraftis has served as CEO of the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) for close to 5 ½ years, from 1996 to 2002. Piraeus is the largest port in Greece, and one of the largest of the Mediterranean, with significant passenger and container traffic. Psaraftis's tenure has been linked with such significant developments, among many others, as (a) Pireaus putting itself on the list of the top 50 world container ports and the top hub of the Eastern Mediterranean, with traffic more than doubling from 575.000 TEU in 1996 to 1.160.000 TEU in 2001, and (b) OLP being transformed into a Corporation in 1999. For more on Psaraftis and OLP, please click here.
Psaraftis's expertise is in maritime and intermodal transport. At MIT he headed research projects on cargo ship routing and scheduling, scheduling of paratransit systems, management of marine oil spill response, automated mission and trajectory planning, and the use of graphics for educational curricula in mathematical programming. At NTUA he has been project manager of several major research projects in practically all areas of maritime transport (EC DG-TREN and DG-RTD projects ATOMOS, THAMES, ATOMOS II, SAFECO, SAFECO II, DISC, DISC II, PROSIT, SSS-CA, ATOMOS IV, ADVANCES, THEMES, EVIMAR, TRAPIST, MTCP, MOSES, plus, the oil spill response projects OSH and EU-MOP. He has been overall project manager of the Concerted Action on Shortsea Shipping (project SSS-CA), an umbrella project overseeing European R&D in shortsea shipping, ports, maritime logistics and intermodal transport, and in which 14 European countries participated (1995 - 2000. Psaraftis has also been overall project manager in Project EU-MOP (Elimination Units for Marine Oil Pollution, 2005 -2008). He also headed national projects on oil spill response and on Greek coastal shipping. His team within the Laboratory of Maritime Transport also participated in EU projects INTEGRATION, POP&C and CHINOS and in Greek project AEGEAN. All these projects cover a broad spectrum of topics in maritime and intermodal transport, including advanced technologies, competitiveness, intermodal logistics, safety, security, and environmental protection. In 2007 a gift agreement between Norwegian classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and NTUA was signed, covering the 3-year period 2008-2010, and having as goal a strategic research collaboration between the two parties. The Laboratory for Maritime Transport will receive half of the funding in such a project, and will be engaged in safety, security and environmental protection research.
Psaraftis has published his work in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Annals of Operations Research, Transportation Science, Transportation Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Ship Research, Marine Technology, Maritime Economics and Logistics, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, Maritime Policy and Management, and Networks. His published work includes two books, over 65 refereed articles, over 50 other publications and over 100 lectures at various conferences. He has also chaired several conference sessions and clusters on topics such as intermodal transport, maritime transport, ports, vehicle routing, and logistics. He has been a member of the organizing committee of the 1994 and 1996 European Research Roundtable Conferences on Shortsea Shipping (held in Athens and Bergen-Norway respectively) and keynote speaker of the 1994 conference. He has also been a member of the scientific committee of TRISTAN I and II (Triennial International Symposium on Transportation Analysis), held in Montreal-Quebec, Canada in 1991 and in Capri, Italy in 1994, and a member of the organizing committee of the 'Shipping Risk Management Forum', held in Athens in 2000, of the 'Port Risk Management Forum', held in the Hague, the Netherlands in 2001, and of 'Mare Forum 2003: M?nage a Trois', held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2003. He has been chairman of the papers committee of the International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management and Economics, organized by SNAME's Greek section in Athens in May of 2005 and chairman of the International Symposium on Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection (SSE07), organized by the Laboratory for Maritime Transport of NTUA in Athens in September of 2007.
Psaraftis has represented Greece on the Management Committee of the "Transport" R&D Programme (1994-1998) and on the management Committee of the COST 330 program (EDI in ports). He has also represented Greece and the port of Piraeus within the European Sea Ports Organization (ESPO) during his tenure at the port. In Greece he served as a member of the National Research Advisory Council (1994-1996), and from 1995 to 2002 he was a member of the Greek Committee of DNV, being the only member of that committee who was not a ship owner. In 2001 he was a member of the Ministry of Merchant Marine committee of experts to recommend the basic principles for Greece's cabotage new institutional regime. Since 2002 he represents NTUA within the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), being also a member of IAPH's Port Operations and Logistics and Port Environment Committees. Since 2006 he is a member of the Steering Committee of the Strategic Project in Maritime Transportation and Logistics of SINTEF (Norway). He has served as a member of the Greek delegation to the International Maritime Organization (IMO)- Maritime Safety Committee (May 2006, Dec. 2006, Oct. 2007) as an advisor to the Union of Greek Shipowners. At the 2007 meeting of IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 56) he was appointed Coordinator of a Correspondence Group, tasked to study the subject of Environmental Risk Acceptance Criteria in Formal Safety Assessment and report to MEPC 57 (2008).
Since 1987 Psaraftis is an Associate Editor of Transportation Science, a publication of INFORMS. In February 1999 he was Guest Editor for a focused issue on maritime transportation. He is also on the Editorial Board of the WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, a publication of the World Maritime University. He has served as referee in more than 20 journals and conferences, as proposal evaluator for the US Sea Grant College Program and for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, as academic certification evaluator for the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus and as faculty evaluator for the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and for the University of Glasgow and Strathclyde. He served as chairman of the adjudication panel for the Lloyds List 2004 Greek Shipping Awards, and was elected member of the Executive Committee of WEGEMT (association of European maritime universities) for the period 2005-2008, President of the MIT Club of Greece for the period 2005-2007, and Chairman of SNAME's Greek Section for the period 9/2006-8/2008.
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Phone: +302107721403
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e-mail: hnpsar@central.ntua.gr
http://www.martans.org
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