‘He could also be at risk’: Authorities trying to find lacking MIT professor in New York

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Heikki Rantakari, who additionally teaches on the College of Rochester, was final seen on Oct. 20.

Authorities are trying to find a lacking MIT professor who was final seen in Rochester, New York, the place he additionally teaches. 

Police mentioned Tuesday that Heikki Rantakari, 44, was final seen in Rochester on Friday. They urged anybody with details about his whereabouts to name 911. 

“We imagine that he could also be at risk,” police mentioned.

Rantakari is a visiting professor of utilized economics on the MIT Sloan Faculty of Administration. He’s additionally an affiliate professor on the College of Rochester Simon Enterprise Faculty. 

The Rochester faculty is amongst these urging the general public to name 911 if Rantakari is seen.

In line with the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Rantakari lives within the Boston space however usually commutes to Rochester. Police and the professor’s household informed the newspaper that Rantakari arrived at his rental in Rochester on Friday night however didn’t present up for a category he was scheduled to show on Saturday, an incident that they mentioned is extraordinarily out of character for the professor.

“He’s extremely dependable,” Florian Ederer, a classmate of Rantakari’s and an economist at Boston College’s Questrom Faculty of Enterprise, informed the Democrat & Chronicle. “He’s somebody who by no means turns up late; he’s extraordinarily conscientious. His disappearance is subsequently notably worrying.”