ABOUT ME

Hi! I lived in Paris for 9 years, 3 years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and here Im back in South France (Toulouse).

I enjoy talking/debating about sciences, nature, evolution, cultures/perceptions, music, movies, food/cooking, Japanese culture, ...

Im an Agronomy engineer and PhD in cell & molecular biology, post-doctoral researcher in structural bioinformatics, then software engineer in Toulouse, now computational biologist in cancer research.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I sometimes prefer free hosting for mutual exchange of time, knowledge and stories. Couchsurfing is the only platform providing this as far as I know.

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I participate by hosting people and can help foreigner CouchSurfers improve their French

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not super active at the moment, but I used to host people when I was in Paris.

I hosted Leonor from Bogota|Colombia, Benjamin and Martin from North Carolina|USA, Jonathan from California|USA, Jaime from California|USA, Bohdan from Ukrainia, Andrius from Lithuania and Ignacio from Argentina!

Ive been hosted by Rebekah, Maxime and Jason in San Francisco|USA.

Interests

I like going to concerts & festivals, we could talk about music for hours if you'd like to... Or about movies, sciences, ethics or any of our addictions.

In Paris | I liked hanging around in my city, discovering unexpected streets or events/shops or people. I try to avoid crowded places though. I am not attached to the luxury side of Paris. But I could take you to the Eiffel Tower & Champs Elysées though, once.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies : David Lynch, Gregg Araki, Quentin Tarantino, Larry Clark, Terri Gilliam, Kim Ki Duk, Takeshi Kitano, Spike Jonze, Tim Burton, Lars Von Trier, Paul Verhoeven, Michel Gondry, Takashi Miike, Chan Wook Park

Concerning the music : Metal, post rock, progressive rock ; indie, folk, acoustic ; industrial, experimental, electro ; some gothic, punk, classical, jazz and rap too.
Name-dropping: Tool, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, Joy Division, Pearl Jam, King Crimson, The Alan Parsons Project, Devo, Einstürzende Neubauten, VAST, Dead Can Dance, The National, Shearwater, Cloud Cult, Why?, Bon Iver, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mount Zion, Isis, Cult Of Luna.
But you can also go check my Lastfm profile : http://www.lastfm.fr/user/ninouchkaia

Books : Boris Vian, Michel Houellebecq, Amélie Nothomb, Haruki Murakami, René Barjavel, Ray Bradbury

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, France, Germany