CURRENT MISSION

Understand the workings of the human brain!

ABOUT ME

I'm a 24 year old newly graduated doctor and I am passionate about Neuroscience.

I live in a studio with my girlfriend, so I do not have a room (or a couch) to offer at the moment... ...but, we will soon move into a larger appartement, and will hopefully be able to host then!!!

I am talkative, open-minded and quite hyper-active. I am extremely passionate about what I do, but I like to learn about new things, which implies staying up late talking about every subject imaginable!

I hope the rest of my profile gives you an idea of what I like and who I might be!

PHILOSOPHY

"Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom", Soren Kierkegaard

I love the feeling of being so incredibly small compared to the ineffable immensity of Wilderness, the World, the Universe... ... at the same time acknowledging that the only thing we have for ourselves is our Freedom. Freedom to Love what we see, to hate what we see. Freedom to choose ourselves and who we are!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am an absolute newcomer, but I hope that I'll be able to contribute in some form. Right now, I'm traveling!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet! Looking forward to it.

Interests

Science
Neuroscience - Neurology - Psychiatry - Medicine in general
Life sciences in general

Music
Playing the drums
Listening to music (Metal, Indie, Alternative, Electro, Minimal... ...but also Jazz and Classical music!)

Sports:
Handball - I play in a team as a goalkeeper
Rugby - I play 7-a-side (Sevens) in my University's team (as a forward usually)
Soccer - with friends
Skateboard - Snowboard - Surfing

Others:
Art and Poetry

• birds
• insects
• arts
• poetry
• partying
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• jazz
• drums
• surfing
• snorkeling
• snowboarding
• skateboarding
• sports
• soccer
• rugby
• handball
• biology
• mathematics
• medicine
• neuroscience
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:

Fight Club
Pulp Fiction - Kill Bill I & II - Reservoir Dogs - Inglorious basterds - Django Unchained... You get the idea.
Requiem for a dream
Forrest Gump
and many many more...

Music:

Metal
Lamb Of God
Korn
Slipknot
Limp Bizkit
The Black Dahlia Murder
...

Classical
Gustav Mahler

HipHop & Rap
Eminem
Die fantastischen Vier

Jazz
Dave Brubeck Quartet

Books

Harry-fucking-Potter by JKR
Faust I (and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
L'Ecume des jours by Boris Vian
H/Souvenir d'Enfance by Georges Perec (!!!)
La Nausée by Jean Paul Sartre
Im Krebsgang by Günter Grass
Stiller by Max Frisch

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travel up le piton des neiges and snorkel in a coral reef... ...in the same day! (La Reunion)

Climb up Mt. Rinjani in Lombok, Indonesia and survive a wild fire!

Sunrise over the rainforest on an Inselberg surplombing endless trees and the cries of millions and millions of insects and birds and apes waking up. (French Guiana, not far from Chutes Voltaire).

Surfing with the Dolphins and Sealions in California! (Santa Cruz)

Co-organized one of the greatest Student Parties in all of Switzerland: Les Saturnales!!! (Winter 2011)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach (or at least have a LOT to say about) Medicine and Medical Sciences, Human Biology... ...but also my mothertongues German and French!

I want to learn three things before I die: Mathematics, Physics and another language (or two if there's time!)

I'll share whatever I can!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, French Guiana, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Réunion, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Switzerland