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Overview

  • 57 references 38 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning Dutch, German, Portuguese
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Electronic engineering for a living (optical fibers trans...
  • A lot came from people I met, and a lot from moments spen...
  • From Brussels - Belgium
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Turning (some of) my dreams into reality...

ABOUT ME

Actual job : I'm an electronic engineer, currently studying hardware attacks against enciphering chips, like bank cards for example (hacking). I'm doing it at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (south of Brussels).

Also developing electronic instruments (theremin and synthesizer), and learning to play cello.

Lots of blabla below, if you wanna know...
Previous occupations:
- teaching secondary school math and physic classes, for pupils 16, 17 and 18 y/o. I love this job and do it sometimes when I have time.
- self-employed electronic engineer, or how to spend many hours 7 days a week in a lab in my basement, soldering and designing board for museums and industries. I'm continuing this activity in my free-times.
- cyclotron field-engineer. Traveling with nice colleagues to repair particle accelerators was fun, exciting, scaring and exhausting. Especially recommended if you like to work by night in radioactive bunkers.
- photographer. I've have shown my work in 2009 and 2010, but am a bit pausing now. Pics are in the album 'some photographs'.

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy at work : Just do it now !

Philosophy on CS : Exploring the world is exploring oneself... or is it the opposite ? ;-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and travelling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Enough to know that's my way of traveling !

Interests

Photography, electronics, music instruments...

  • photography
  • electronics
  • traveling
  • music
  • engineering
  • mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music : Belle&Sebastian, Gainsbourg, Dylan, Evora, Bach...

Books : "Illusion, the adventure of a reluctant Messiah", "Les sept plumes de l'aigle", Taniguchi's mangas...

Movies : "Fight Club", "Mysterious skin", "Central do Brasil", "Cidade de Deus", "Volver", "Ken Park", "Y tu mama tambien", "Fargo", "Todo sobre mi madre", "Paranoid Park", "Kids" ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

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Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach and want to learn more about : photography (autodidact) and electronics (I'm an electronical engineer).

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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