CURRENT MISSION

Becoming a scholar in Sociology, contribute to the scientific field, trying to make a positive impact on society and my close relations … and venture into happiness :)

ABOUT ME

People think I am easygoing, social, outgoing and witty - I personally don't always think so. But there you go: I guess "self" is a rather fluid concept anyway (oh, those bloody sociologists!)

What I have been following through to some extend and what I set as my principal measure in life was to live fairly humanistic, meaning to find this damn balance everybody refers to when talking about "living a good life".
The finnish have a nice word for it: kohtuullinen, meaning "reasonable". Another phrase my closest friend an I coined is "sweet-spotting", meaning: finding the sweet spot of being excited and getting into a flow but not overdoing it.

PHILOSOPHY

see "all about me"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Always an enriching thing to surf and host!

Interests

Hiking, Yoga, meditating, dancing, swimming, via-ferrata, low-carb-diet, some running, well cooked dishes, books, meeting people and living live with them while making real contact (that's when 2 human beings engage in another's world); and I love getting hooked by good TV-series (Homeland, Game of Thrones, Altered Carbon, Westworld, House of Cards, Borgen, …)

I do love my work as a PhD student: I have all the liberties to deepen my knowledge and hone my skills. This is a truly special situation in life! In particular I do research on delinquency of people aged between 20 and 30 years. I am very much into quantitative analysis. And I love teaching and figuring out how learning is best achieved.

Also, I'm interested in how much the structure we as human beings are in determine the perception of our choices and how limited we are but actually don't know about it.

• books
• tv
• socializing
• hiking
• eating good food

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Movies from the Ghibli-Studio (especially Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä)
Interstellar (music and movie)
Bridge of Spies (wonderfully written characters)
Matrix
Marvel Studio block busters
The Hobbit
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
Pirates of the Caribbean
…

Books:
LOTR
Robert Menasse: Die Hauptstadt
Books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Elfquest
Name of the Rose
The Foucaultian Pendulum
…

Music:
sing&songwriters from all around the world
Daft Punk
Ryöksöpp
Air
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Cobario
Susanne Sundfør
Jose Gonzalez
Jason Mraz
Hubert von Goisern
…

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

looking out of the window when it's raining outside and get absorbed by nature

Teach, Learn, Share

Learning is a central aspect of my life: learning professional skills, how to create positive interpersonal atmospheres, but also how to deal with problems in relationships (very fascinating indeed)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love to share a fun-going conversation, joking and merry atmosphere with food and drinks

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany

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