Today thirty years ago I defended my [PhD thesis](https://www.cs.ru.nl/~jhh/publications.html#thesis). A little more than a month before, my son was born. And five days after his birth my father died. Three life-changing events compressed in thirty nine days. That somehow triggered the journey that took me here, now, thirty years later. To this amazing state of being. I still cannot believe this all to be real.
Visiting Professor Karlstad University. Associate professor privacy enhancing protocols and privacy by design at Radboud University Nijmegen. Privacy Engineering Boffin. Author of "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy through Careful Design."MIT Press, October 2021. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/privacy-hard-and-seven-other-myths