My name is Deniz Sarikaya. I am born '91 in Hamburg (Germany) where I am currently studying Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Hamburg. One day I hope to become a teacher or stay in the academic world or (when the right idea strikes me) become an entrepreneur. So far I have studied in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Barcelona (Spain), I was a visiting intern in Vancouver (Canada) and I am currently staying at the UC Berkeley (US) as a visiting student researcher together with my lovely fiancée.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask me.

Best wishes,
Deniz

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I hope that I am always a open minded and respectful person. That is why I registered at Coachsurfing and hope to be a eligible guest. I like the idea very much to stay at a real home rather then a anonymous hotel room. I think Coachsurfing is a great chance to meet open minded people form all over the world, find new friends and to learn from a local about the place (and its culture) you are visiting.

Sadly my housing situation does not allows me to serve as a host. But I am looking forward when I am back in Hamburg Germany (in January 2016) to start beeing a host (and of course every of my future hosts is kindly invited to be my guest as well : ))

Interests

My hobbies includes reading (see more below), films (see more below), chatting (I am very interested in a lot of philosophical questions and debates starting from the theoretical roots and ending in the discussion of daily news) and of course travelling. I recently started also to experiment a little with photography.

• culture
• photography
• education
• cooking
• beer
• news
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• computer science
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• logic
• mathematics
• philosophy
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

I love all kind of music but have not settled to a specific genre yet : )

And I am reading very much and there are so many books worth reading and films watching, so this is more a list of the first titles that came into my mind. So here is my Top 10 :D

Films:
- 12 Monkeys
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Elf
- Fight Club
- Matrix
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Trading Places
- The big lebowski
- The nacked gun

Books (alphabetically by Author):
- Woyzeck (Georg Büchner)
- The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger ... (Albert Camus)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- To Have or to Be (Ehrich Fromm)
- Zen Arrow, Zen Bow: The Life and Teaching of Awa Kenzo (Eugen Herrigel)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- Animal Farm, Nineteen Eigthy-Four (George Orwell)
- The Music of the Primes (Marcus du Sautoy)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I am very proud for my work for youngsters: I am teaching mathematically gifted youth at Saturdays, I was a teacher for youth with an migration backgrounds at summer academies and I'm organizing seminars in which pupil are invited to visit my home university. I hope this encourages them (esp. those without a strong family supporting their education) to study the subject they love or even to get the confidence to chase their dreams.

Teach, Learn, Share

- Lerne ein wenig Deusch (learn a little German :) ) I alwas try to be a little "embassor" for both the German and Turkish Culture so may be I can make my stay at your place to a trip for you too ^^

- I am always happy to cook (and learn from your cooking skills)

- When you are interested in my academic interests: I am happy to give an introduction into generally speaking: Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics and (a little) Computer Science, or to be more preceise: into philosophical and mathematical Logic, Graph Theory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Science.

What I Can Share with Hosts

You get the chance to have your private philosopher ;)
- so talk with me about the world.

I am very happy to spend some time with my host. So feel free to suggestion activities (from a beer at the evening to a whole trip). I will for sure ask you if you would like to join my activities. But I can totally understand when you cannot make it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, England, France, Russian Federation, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United States