Anyone who talks to Boulouchos about energy systems is also always talking about philosophy. (Photograph : ETH Zurich / Daniel Winkler)
Anyone who talks to Boulouchos about energy systems is also always talking about philosophy. (Photograph : ETH Zurich / Daniel Winkler) - Konstantinos Boulouchos spent years helping to shape Swiss energy research. Following his retirement, the charismatic Emeritus Professor of Energy Technology can now look back on more than 30 years at ETH Zurich - time to get philosophical. Should he study history or physics? As a teenager in Athens in the 1970s, Konstantinos Boulouchos was interested in so many things. But while the humanities seemed a bit of a dead end, he was told a physics degree was only good for becoming a teacher, an idea he didn't quite like either. "And today I find nothing more important than educating young people," laughs Boulouchos. The ETH professor is full of enthusiasm when he talks about his students.
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