PhD student in virology&vaccines and medical adviser for pharmaceutical company
Friendly and tolerant

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For exchange and making friends!

Interests

I'm interested in design and architecture. I always pay attention to interesting building while traveling. I like to watch the play of light and shape, my favorite architects are Oscar Niemeyer and Tadao Ando.
I like black-and-white pictures (Josef Sudek!)
I appreciate craftsmanship

• architecture
• photography
• crafts
• hiking
• biology
• medicine
• science
• cinema
• nature
• trekking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Philip Glass, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Lubomyr Melnyk, Jonny Greenwood, Nicolas Jaar, Thylacine, Dead can dance, Massive attack, Tricky, Brad Mehldau, PJ Harvey, Brian Eno
Books: Disgrace (Coetzee), Unbearable lightness of being (Kundera), Hemingway, Kerouac, Dostoevsky, The museum of innocence (Pamuk)
Movies: There will be blood, Wings of desire, Three colors: Blue, Frances Ha, The Knick, Soul Kitchen, The master, Nymphomaniac

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing to the top of the Palais de Justice in Brussels in the midnight!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, South Africa