CURRENT MISSION

Improve myself daily, live new experiences, meet new people, teach and learn, make science.

ABOUT ME

I live in Athens, Greece. I'm studying cryptography, and I like math and computers. I also love to travel, meet people, experience new experiences.

PHILOSOPHY

I like to improve myself daily in any way I can, and I think new and positive experiences are the best way to do that.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new to couchsurfing. I've tried hosting a couple of times and I love the idea. I have only surfed once and I enjoyed it. I'm willing to meet more people through couchsurfing :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've only had a few CouchSurfing experiences so far which were all positive and fun!

Interests

Science: Software, security, cryptography, math, programming, databases, social networks, privacy, teaching, web development, video game programming, writing.

Hobbies: Piano, debating, bicycling, walking, philosophy, traveling, running, nudism, aviation, sailing.

• writing
• running
• walking
• aviation
• traveling
• music
• backpacking
• sailing
• engineering
• mathematics
• software
• nudist
• cryptography

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite movies: Elephant, Inception, Catch me if you can, Pi, V for Vendetta, The pirates of Silicon Valley, Yes man, Call me by your name, For a lost soldier, Amelie, Ice Age, Kill Bill, Matrix, Butterfly Effect, 13th Floor, Clockwork Orange, The Reader, Mar adentro, Minority Report, Brokeback Mountain, Summerstorm, Naked Gun, 21, Into the wild, The pursuit of happiness, Total Eclipse.

Favourite books: Logicomix, Principia Mathematica, Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture, Little Prince, DaVinci Code, The Pilgrimage, Oliver Twist, The Parrot's Theorem, Brief History of Time, Fight Club, Peopleware, Sipser's Theory of Computation, Yalom's Lying on the Couch

Favourite music: Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Dream Theater, Massive Attack, Zero 7, BT, Beatles

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I skydived and bungee jumped, but would not do it again. I worked at deviantART in LA, Twitter in SF and Google in Zurich. I travelled from Europe to the United States with just a backpack and stayed for 4 months. I visited 13 countries over the course of a year. I got caught trespassing an old industrial building in Greece. I drove across New Mexico, ate mosquitoes in Mexico, and sailed a sailing ship for two weeks at the south of Spain.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love teaching and being taught. In my scientific field of cryptography, I have several students that I'm very proud of, and they also teach me daily. I think traveling has a way of teaching people also. By looking at different cultures, we discover that we are both very different and very alike.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Curaçao, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Greece, Scotland, Switzerland, United States