Environmentalist/leftie/feminist :) I'm a biologist but my undergrad was philosophy and mathematics.

In the long term, I want to be an educator. I believe that computers have enormous untapped potential to teach people things, and I want to take advantage of that potential.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Mostly research and conferences :) I've couchsurfed in San Francisco, Brussels, Cologne, and Vienna.

Interests

Education is a big part of the work I do too.

Also very into origami, underwater hockey and theatre :)

• education
• origami
• biology
• teaching
• mathematics
• philosophy

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I'm one of those reprobates who mostly listens to single songs by assorted artists again and again, without following up by listening to their other work. A small number of musicians cause me to break with this: Tim Minchin, Sigur Rós, and Bach/Beethoven/Mozart.

Film: favourite directors are Herzog and Bergman. Aside from their work, all-time favourite films are Four Lions, The Battleship Potemkin, The Act of Killing, Melancholia and Ponyo.

Books: favourite author is Borges, favourite book is 100 years of Solitude, favourite non-fiction is Godel, Escher, Bach.

Other: bit of a Shakespeare nut. Favourite painter is Turner, favourite origamist is Robert Lang, favourite computer game is Portal.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Used techniques from origami to create a program for studying the structure of HIV!

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach you a moderate amount about mathematical biology! Also Shakespeare and a certain amount of philosophy :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

At the moment I only have a mattress and a sleeping bag - and they're in my bedroom, which is student accomodation (I will have my own place soon though)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Philippines, Scotland, Thailand