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* I was fortunate enough to have been taught [dimensional analysis] by the legendary [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/e.economou Eleftherios Economou]. I was taught Ordinary Differential Equations by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/e.kiritsis Elias Kyritsis]. Sat on two graduate Physics classes during my last year of studies (Quantum  Many Body Theory and Analytic Mechanics) that were given by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/g.psaltakis Gregory Psaltakis].  Prof. Psaltakis had shown me the beauty and unity of mathematical physics. I still remember his words from one of our discussions back then about my plans continuing my studies somewhere in a field related to computational physics. He had said something along the lines "You'll never fall in love with computational stuff". He was quite right. I'd never felt the love I've felt for the mathematics courses I was tought during my studies in any of the computational physics courses. But at that point, we had either Fortran77 or C, or Java. I disliked all three of them, but most of them Fortran77 (material of nightmares). Mathematica was a nice revelation, but pretty slow for demanding computations.

* Finally, I did Physics experiments with [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/c.haldoupis Chaldoupis] and [Charalbidis]. I was introduced to computational physics (using Fortran 77) first by prof. Chaldoupis mentioned earlier and then by prof. [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/x.zotos Zotos]. Prof. Zotos made my experiences with Fortran77 bearable. Prof. Chaldoupis showed me that I'm surely not fond of experimental physics, but I enjoy writing reports on the results of the experiments and doing the analysis.