P. Schmoldt, PhD - MTNet - DIAS

Acknowledgements
In the course of composing a work with the extent of a PhD thesis one cannot avoid to
meet lots of great, interesting, and inspiring people during the time it takes to complete it.
This Chapter is to express my sincere thanks to all these people and to record their names
for everyone to read (personal thanks will also be given to the people in, well, person).
Multiple entries are herein explicitly intended. Following the advice of Stephen Benka
(“It’s the audience, stupid”, meaning that content should be presented in the way that best
suits the recipient) acknowledgements are given in the people’s respective language; at
least for those languages that I found myself (more or less) able to communicate in —
which effectively means that some of the sentences are in German and here and there a
foreign word is interspersed.
In general, acknowledgements follow no specific order —
aber zu allererst moechte ich meiner Familie danken, meinen Grosseltern Herbert (der leider
das Ende meiner Doktorarbeit nicht mehr erleben konnte) und Kaethe, meinen Eltern
Josef und Monika, ihren Partnern Petra und Cora, sowie meinen Geschwistern Mareike
und Johannes. Vielen Dank dass Ihr all die Zeit zu mir gestanden habt, mich immer
wieder aufgebaut habt wenn ich es brauchte und mir die Möglichkeit gegeben habt eine
Doktorarbeit anzufangen. Ohne euch hätte ich sie nicht zu Ende gebracht.
I would further like to acknowledge funding of the PICASSO project, and through that
my PhD scholarship, by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). I wish to acknowledge the
SFI/HEA Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) for the provision of computational
facilities and support. I am thanking Alan G. Jones for promoting the PICASSO
project, organising the SFI funding, offering me the PhD scholarship, and giving me the
opportunity to work with scientists around the work and presenting my work on international
meetings. Additional thanks go to Alan G. Jones and Colin Brown for their role as
my supervisors.
Special thanks also go to Xavi Garcia for constructive advise, guidance, and great
inspiration during the first years of my PhD; and to Mark R. Muller, who despite his more
than tight schedule always found time for patient and thorough explanations.
Big thanks, grazie, gracias, and Dank go out to the whole PICASSO Phase I fieldwork
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