I am a network scientists. I look at systems which are more than the sum of its parts: where many objects, simple in themselves, interact with each other and give rise to rich, complex and wonderful phenomena.

I believe it is more important to reach a common ground with others than to find out who is right and who is wrong.

I have faith in what humanity is capable of, without having a faith in a Supreme Being.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Ever since my first travel abroad four years ago, I never stopped getting amazed at how people from different places are

Couchsurfing for me is a way to look at people from different places as what they are, as opposed to reducing them to their nationality, race or faith.

Interests

Cooking. I believe it is magical when ingredients slice, diced, sauteed and fried becomes so much more than the sum of its parts, food is the canonical example of a complex system :)

Biking in the nature.
Taking long train trips. I hate flying.

Technology and socialism (Abolition of Work by Bob Black is one of my favourite things of all time ). I believe in a future when humanity's progress will actually make us free to pursue our dreams, rather than enriching the pockets of the rich.

Reproducible and Open science movement: research is about sharing and collectively changing the world, not padding your CV.

• singing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• indian food
• flying
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: POTF, Evanescence, Pink Floyd, Alter Bridge, Leprous.

Authors: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Arthur C. Clarke, Jonathan Stroud, Wodehouse, Asimov, Cornelia Funke.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked at altitude of 5400 m in the Himalayas.

Listened to David Gilmour sing at the Arena di Verona.

Walked across a completely empty Ponte Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria (It was 3am).

Teach, Learn, Share

Share recipes, reading lists.
Teach how to fix your PC.
Learn card games.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cuisine: Show how to really make Indian food: neither the bastardaized western variety, nor the snooty "gourmet" ones.

How to stop thinking in deterministic ways and make sense of randomness and indeterminism.

How to fix a PC.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, India