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<a href="https://www.uu.se/en">Uppsala University</a><br /><br />
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<center><h1>Pierre Flener's Autobiography and Personal Details</h1></center>
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<h2>Autobiography</h2>
<p>I am from Luxembourg, that tiny country in the heart of Europe. I
will not bore you with a patriotic information kit trying to convince
you that my country is the bestest, beautifulest one in the world, its
history the most glorious one, its culture unsurpassed, and its people
the kindest, as you all know these facts anyway! Therefore, I once
compiled a <a href="travel/luxembourg.guide.html">Travel Guide to
Luxembourg</a> (possibly the oldest such on-line guide?), with all
objective (and not so objective) information I could find.</p>
<p>After <a href="pics/PierreTeddy.jpg">growing up</a> and attending
primary school in the Gasperich suburb of Luxembourg City
(Luxembourg), I went to the <a href="https://www.al.lu">Athénée de
Luxembourg</a> for my secondary education, and earned my baccalaureate
in mathematics, physics, and chemistry in 1983. Then I left for
Belgium, for my higher education, because there was no university in
my country yet.</p>
<p>I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from the <a
href="http://www.info.ucl.ac.be">Department of Computing Science and
Engineering</a> of the <a href="https://www.uclouvain.be">Université
catholique de Louvain</a>, in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), in 1993.
Towards this, I also spent considerable research time at the <a
href="https://www.unamur.be/info">Computer Science Department</a> of
the <a href="https://www.unamur.be">University of Namur</a> (Belgium),
where I obtained in 1988 my BSc and MSc in Computer Science, and as a
visiting PhD student in 1990 at the <a
href="https://cs.duke.edu">Department of Computer Science</a> of <a
href="https://duke.edu">Duke University</a>, in Durham (North
Carolina, USA).</p>
<p>I first worked as an Assistant Professor in the <a
href="https://w3.cs.bilkent.edu.tr">Computer Engineering Department</a>
of <a href="https://w3.bilkent.edu.tr">Bilkent University</a>, in
Ankara (Turkey), until June 1998. Then I was a Senior Lecturer at the
Computer Science Division of the now defunct Department of Information
Science of <a href="https://www.uu.se">Uppsala University</a> (Sweden),
until August 2002, and was awarded the title of Associate Professor
(Docent) in March 1999.</p>
<p>I am now a Professor of Computing Science in the <a
href="https://www.uu.se/en/department/information-technology">Department
of Information Technology</a> at <a href="http://www.uu.se/en">Uppsala
University</a> (Sweden), since September 2001, and was a Senior
Lecturer, Associate Professor (Docent) there until my promotion to
professor in June 2008. During the academic year 2006/2007, I was on
sabbatical as a Visiting Faculty Member and ERASMUS Exchange Teacher
in the <a href="https://fens.sabanciuniv.edu">Faculty of Engineering
and Natural Sciences</a> of <a
href="https://www.sabanciuniv.edu">Sabancı University</a>, in Istanbul
(Turkey).</p>
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<h2>Miscellaneous</h2>
<p>Recreational bike races: I have raced the <a
hrefs="http://vatternrundan.se">Vätternrunda</a> (300 km in one
day) in <a href="pics/VR2009.jpg">2009</a>, <a
href="pics/VR2010.jpg">2010</a>, and <a
href="pics/VR2011.jpg">2011</a> (my personal best time is 9:41:56,
including rests) and participate yearly in about five races over at
least 120 km.</p>
<p>What's in a name? Read <a href="flener.html">what I know of the
name "Flener"</a>.</p>
<p>The determination of my birthday and zodiac sign is left as an
exercise to the reader!</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_A._Hoffmann">Jules
A. Hoffmann</a> and <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Tudor">Henri Tudor</a> are
the most famous scientists / inventors from Luxembourg (although
nobody knows that).</p>
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<h2>My Hobbies</h2>
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<li><a href="travel">independent travelling</a></li>
<li>active sports (<a href="pics/Pierre1stBike.jpg">cycling</a>, cross-country skiing, volleyball, trekking, table tennis)</li>
<li>reading (preferably travel and historic fiction)</li>
<li>history & archeology (mostly of the Near / Middle East)</li>
<li>movies (without violence only, especially by Monty Python)</li>
<li>music (a little bit of everything, especially Near / Middle Eastern)</li>
<li>spectator sports (same as active sports + football / soccer, basketball, tennis)</li>
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<h2>My Favourite Sports Teams</h2>
I have sworn unfailing allegiance to the following sport teams and individuals (unless they turn out to be doped) (in no particular order):
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<li>the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_national_football_team">Luxembourg National Football Team</a>, nicknamed the <font color="red">Red Lions</font> (<font color="red">Roude Leiw</font>)</li>
<li>in Germany: <a href="https://www.borussia.de">Borussia Mönchengladbach</a> (football)</li>
<li>in the USA: <a href="https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball">Duke University's Men's Basketball Team</a></li>
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<h2>My Favourite Authors</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Allende">Isabel Allende</a>, Chile</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaşar_Kemal">Yaşar Kemal</a>, Turkey</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_Maalouf">Amin Maalouf</a>, Lebanon</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron">Colin Thubron</a>, UK</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a>, USA</li>
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