I'm Romain, a frenchman, brand-new to couchsurfing, been living in Italy for more than 4 years now, after stints in the UK, Germany and Spain.

I'm a multidisciplinary scientist: half-mathematician, half-physicist, half-biologist.

I'm currently working on many projects including graph theory, handedness development, language learning...

I'm an avid outdoors person. I love hiking, cycling, canoeing. Anything that gets me into the wild. When my knees get better, I'll resume ultra-trailing. The ultra-trailers Kilian Jornet, Jared Campbell and François d'Haene are my heroes.

I play the guitar, the ukulele and I'm currently learning drums (but my religion forbids me to play in 4/4).

My motto would be a quote from Vonnegut:
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

When I'm traveling on my own, I like to find like-minded people to stay/chat with. I guess that when we have normal jobs, we're less likely to encounter people outside of our usual social groups. Couchsurfing seems like a great natural way of extending those circles.

Interests

I'm really into politics and philosophy and languages.

• politics
• hiking
• languages
• philosophy
• science
• linguistics
• post-rock

Music, Movies, and Books

65dayofstatic, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Programme, Damien Saez.
Tortoise, Maybeshewill, God Is An Astronaut, Maudlin of the Well, Yann Tiersen, Jacques Brel, Shane Koyczan, Dirty Three, The Residents, Ruins, Stupeflip, Tom Waits, 90s rock/grunge/punk/metal.

Kurt Vonnegut, Cioran, JP Carse.
Kahneman, Diamond, Marx, Debord, Camus, Egan, Wilde, Prévert, Whitman, Baudelaire, Moitessier.
Recently read the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia Butler.

Big fan of contemplative, slow cinema: Terrence Malick, Bela Tarr, Andreï Tarkovski, also Kim Ki-Duk, Terry Gilliam, Jaco van Dormael, Jim Jarmusch, Shane Carruth, Leos Carax, Stanley Kubrick, Abbas Kiarostami...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I guess crossing the Atlas mountains in Morocco, walking 21 days.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm very happy to speak in any language I know. Because my social circles are very international, I tend to speak (even my native language) in a very comprehensible way.
I speak fluently french and english, my italian and spanish allow me to hold conversations with any native speakers (except chileans, I struggle with the accent, go figure). I sort of get by in german and romanian, and I have basics in croatian, as well as knowledge in the structure of other languages.

Because I was lucky enough to study plenty of subjects, I guess I can talk about pretty much any scientific subject.

I'm also very happy to listen to any subject a person is passionate about. I guess anybody who has a passion can never be boring.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love cooking and I can probably try to cook something for you!
Also, terrible puns and approximative humor.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Réunion, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom