I currently live in Bern in Switzerland, but I am often away somewhere for short improvised travels, both for work (conferences, workshops, and so on) or just privately.

# --Travels in 2024:

02.07.2024-22.07.2024: Edinburgh - Hathersage - Birmingham - Cambridge - London (UK)- Brunoy (France)

TBD: Montenegro!

My favourite travel in 2024: TBD
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# --Travels in 2023:
21.07.2023 - 04.08.2023: Norway, trip with my mum (Hurtigruten Expedition)
29.09.2023-02.10.2023: Munich (Germany), visiting friends

# --Travels in 2022:
01.02.2022 - 07.02.2022: Cairo and White Desert (Egypt), holidays and family visit)
05.05.2022 - 08.05.2022: Paris (France), trip with friends
03.06.2022 - 05.06.2022: Amsterdam (Netherlands), city trip with friend
24.08.2022 - 30.08.2022: Stockholm and Gällnö (Sweden), visiting friend
21.12.2022 - 01.01.2023: Heredia, Arenal, Liberia (Costa Rica), friend's wedding celebration

My favourite travel in 2022: Costa Rica
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# --Travels in 2021:
08.09.2021 - 22.09.2021: Zanzibar and Lake Natron (Tanzania), climb of Ol Doinyo Lengai, holidays
10.12.2021 - 13.12.2021: Mulhouse and Colmar (France),city trip with friends
31.12.2021 - 03.01.2022: Barcelone (Spain), new year trip

My favourite travel in 2021: Tanzania
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# --Travels in 2020:
Corona time...I was moving around Germany, Switzerland and Italy
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# --Travels in 2019:
25.11.2019 - 08.12.2019: Accra (Ghana), TReND workshop Statistics and R
13.03.2019 - 17.03.2019: Caito (Egypt), visiting aquiantance

My favourite travel in 2021: Ghana
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# --Travels in 2018:
25.09.2018 - 15.10.2018: Antananarivo and other places north and east (Madagascar), Ikala STEM Workshop Statistics and R
30.11.2018 - 06.12.2018, Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt), holiday and visiting friends

My favorite travel in 2018: Madagascar
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# --Travels in 2017:
15.01.2017 - 22.01.2017: Berlin, (Germany) IMPRS workshop
26.05.2017 - 04.06.2017: Amelia (Italy) Italy Contact Fest
27.06.2017 - 1.07.2017: Venice (Italy) Art Biennale
13.08.2017 - 21.08.2017: Lviv (Ukraine), SomatiQ
03.09.2017 - 12.09.2017: Lisboa, (Portugal), EMAPI conference
12.10.2017 - 24.12.2017: Munich and Bonn (Germany), IMPRS Symposium and travel to family
17.11.2017 - 01.12.2017: Abuja, Gombe and Calabar (Nigeria), TReND workshop Statistics and R)
12.12.2017 -11.01.2018: Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Wedding and travel

My favorite travel in 2017: Gombe and Calabar, Nigeria - TReND workshop Statistics and R
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I am an easy person and I like traveling a lot. I enjoy eating all sorts of food, partying (with electro and techno music especially, but I like also all other sorts of music), doing sports, or just being lazy :-).

Also, I can be quite creative and like to paint/draw/create. I organize painting nights around once a month in my current hometown Bern (in Switzerland), where I provide some basic art tools like colors and paper for everyone, and drinks, as well as some snacks, are also usually available. The atmosphere is familiar and welcoming: be pArt of the Art, and feel free to join!

During the warm season (from late spring to early fall), I am outdoors a lot. I love to do crazy bike-tours, and crazy open-water swims in lakes and in the sea. My longest swim so far was 8 Km in the Gulf of the Poets, in Italy. And of course, I love hiking up mountains, or just being outside to collect stuff like cherries, mushrooms and so on. I also enjoy to dance at parties, and I do some contact improvisation dance from time to time.

I am currently working as a researcher at the botanical garden of Berne, working on ex-situ plant conservation. If you want to know more, just ask! It is an interesting topic :-D. I studied Biology because I love nature, plants, animals and because there are so many amazing things in nature.
I also like everything related to maths and numbers, I have some skills in programming and statistics and aim to improve them in the next years.

I'm also interested in LGBT communities around the world, in queer culture and how LGBT is perceived in different settings, in LGBT rights and woman rights in the different countries I visit.

Something I relate to:

"Doch wenn du an einem dieser Orte bist, wirst du dich immer nach dem anderen sehnen. Ich fuerchte, so wird es bleiben. Darum wirst du an keinem dieser Orte deine Ruhe finden, und darum auch sehnst du dich nach Weite und Ungebundenheit. Denn nur solange du unterwegs bist, bist du frei von der Zerrissenheit, frei von Ungewissheit. Das Schicksal hat dich entwurzelt. Doch sei nicht traurig. Es ist deine Aufgabe, dieses Schicksal, so besonders, wie es immer sein mag, anzunehmen und damit zu leben. All das was du siehst ist deine Heimat."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because it is a cool way to get in touch with people, with new cultures, with new ideas.

Interests

Art (painting, writing, dancing), Nature (being outdoors, mountains! plants and animals) , Science (biology, ecology, sport sciences... ), Sport (calisthenics, bouldering, hiking, cycling, swimming), Languages (want to learn more!), .. and many others

• animals
• cats
• arts
• culture
• writing
• dancing
• lgbt rights
• running
• meditation
• traveling
• painting
• bouldering
• cycling
• hiking
• sports
• swimming
• biology
• ecology
• languages
• mathematics
• science
• mountains
• food
• nature
• sleeping
• plants
• contact improvisation
• calisthenics
• nature conservation
• dogs and cats

Music, Movies, and Books

Classical and electro... indie, pop, rock and many others! I am not fixed, and it keeps changing.
Baustelle, Worakls, La Femme, N'to, Moderat, Massive Attack, Coil, Chopin, Alkan, Soko, Sol Seppy, Scriabin, Bach, Kalkbrenner, La Roux, Teho, Boris Brejcha, Romulus, Manowar, Rammstein...it also depends on my mood, the list could go on forever

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I faced a black Rhino in Africa.

Teach, Learn, Share

Don't let others pull you down

What I Can Share with Hosts

I have a living room with a large bed couch where up to two people can fit. In case of multiple guests, I can offer an additional (good) mattress to put on thc floor.

I also can share some of my self-made liquors or just a good conversation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, South Africa, Switzerland