CURRENT MISSION

Design bio-inspired system that copy the brain

ABOUT ME

Hi! I'm a French man working at IBM Research Almaden in San Jose, CA. I moved here with my fiancée after almost 2 years at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, after 5 years in Cyprus where I worked for an EU project that had the ambition to implant a sonar in the brain of blind people so they can see as bats and dolphins do. I love to travel, meet people from different culture and learn new languages.
I studied in France (Nantes, Grenoble, Lyon), Italy (Torino), Swizerland (Lausanne), the Netherland (Enschede) and Nicosia (Cyprus). I lived also 1 summer in Cambridge and 4 months in the USA (Baltimore, Telluride).

Have a nice day!

PHILOSOPHY

A force de ne pas vivre comme on pense, on finit par penser comme on vit. By dint of not living as one thinks, one ends up thinking as he lives.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Always a great experience. Hosting people seems to be the best way to prepare future trips and have a lot of fun and nice talks! statistically it seems to be somewhere between Gdansk and Krakow :)

- 2011 - as host (18 guests)
April - Susannah & Juliayn - USA
May - Juliette & Ariane - France
May - Elia & Peter - Spain & Hungary
June - Claire & Eamonn - Ireland
June - Sydney & bf - USA
June - Kerstin & Virpal - Sweden
July - Jana - Czech Republic
September - Helene & Benjamin - France
September - Dimitris - Greece
December - Karolina & Laima - Lithuania

as guest
November - Aquarius13 - San Diego/La Jolla

- 2012 - as host (32 guests)
January - Julia & Mateusz - Poland
February - Gosia & Jean-Jacques - Poland
March - Timothée - France
May - Kasia & Lukasz - Poland
May - Sandra & Arek - Poland
May - Alex - Poland
May - Jacek - Poland
June - Pawel & Darek - Poland
June - Justin & Tomasz - Poland
June - Jacek - Poland
June - Farhana, Gabriela, Hien, Kasia and Katerina - The Netherlands, Spain, France, Poland and Ukraine
June - Patrycja and Adam - Poland
June - Teodora and Daniel - Hungary
June - Gabriel - UK
June - Marta and Wojtek - Poland
July - Jurgita and Lina - Lithuania
July - Flora - Germany
July - Diolinda and Marion - France

As you can see Poland rules!!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

First time registering on the website, but when i was in Swizerland we hosted a couple of Portugueses people in our student flats. Great experience!
So my real first CS experience is over it was great, we had lots of fun and i even discovered places i didn't know around!

the usual meeting point is at Eleftherias Square in the old town (http://goo.gl/maps/UVax) in the evening. It's at the beginning of the Ledras street that leads to the checkpoint to cross to the north/turkish/other/occupied side (choose the one you prefer, some people here are very sensitive on which one you will but I don't personally :) )

Thanks to Ryanair I've been hosting almost exclusively Polish folks in the last months and gifted of nice polish chocolate/vodka. Any traditional cake next??

YOUTH HOSTEL in Nicosia
http://www.youthboard.org.cy/default.asp?id=297

Interests

walking around, enjoying as much of Nature as possible, share drinks and stories of travel and CS experiencs :)

• culture
• design
• chocolate
• walking
• drinking
• traveling
• socializing
• cartography
• languages
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

My Sassy Girl, M Brooks, Requiem for a Dream, La Cité interdite, Comment tuer votre femme,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Le Tigre et la Neige, Le Nombre 23, Le Monstre, Mon nom est Tsotsi, L'Homme sans âge, Underground, Un crime dans la tête, Duelist, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The PHD Movie, American History X.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cyprus, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

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