CURRENT MISSION

Travelling outside to discover inside... Catching unforgettable emotions from every corner in the world

ABOUT ME

Well, I don't know how to start talking about me... but I'll try!
I'm Alberto, an italian 31 guy; I live in Lausanne after a whole life spent in Rome with my family, mama dad one brother and one lovely, fantastic and charming dog, called Daisy (she is just a pet).
I've studied to be a Medical Doctor till a few time ago! It has been a very hard road but stimulant and full of satisfaction. My professional fields of interests orbit around neurosciences, from human genetic and molecular biology to the cognitive and behavioral sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and nutrition.
Apart from it, I really love to make every instant something unique and special; travelling is the way to create it, to photograph is the way to keep it; inside, outside of you. So, I've been trying to surround myself and make my life full of emotions and new interesting and positive experiences for a long time.
During my everyday life, I wait a little bit of spare time to take my motorbike and drive it all along the country hills surrounding my city; otherwise, if it is too late and I've to stay at home, why don't I try to cook some really nice and experimental meal? Yes I do, is an interesting and pleasant pursuit; not only italian food, i catch every possible chance to learn something about new international cooking.
What else? Mmh.. I think it's time to come here and discover it by yourself, if you think to be interested in.
Cheers!

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Some further information about my background. I've lived in Rome, as told, till my 25. At 23-24 I moved to Malaga for one year where i studied my fifth year of Medicine and Surgery thanks to Erasmus program; on my ending 24 I've been to New York City where I did an internship following a lab in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After my degree, on July 2011, I moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to do my Psychiatry residency and to start working in a neuroscience lab.
While i'm studying, i'm a hard reader: i like to delight my mind first of all with novels, especially modern literature, written all over the world. One example: Beat the reaper, Josh Bazell... wonderful!
i like to play sports, in my life i've tried so many things... but the must for me is kayaking over hard and fast rivers and falls; then running, waterpolo, diving, soccer, surfing, tennis-table (ooh, i love it!), swimming, volleyball, golf, i can continue till tonight ;)
Then, my second life: i love above all the Theatre, going to see comedies or tragedies, poetry slam or improvisation; naturally i love as well playing on the dais, also if I did nothing for a few years. i'd greatly like to restart it.
"Regretfully", i'm addicted to technology, I usually spend a lot of time watching film on it (i'm very enthusiastic of cinema), studying on it, trying to improve my knowledge of languages and some things more around; for that reason i think that Internet it's one of the most powerful and important things that is ever born... but it needs a good and judicious use.

PHILOSOPHY

This is, I think, the most relevant part of that page, where i've the possibility to explain shortly who I am.
I love to live with other people, share other thoughts, ideas, feel all cultures and relate everytime myself with who and what surrounds me.
Because of that, I'm always looking for all the possible ways to realize it, and travelling is the first one.
Thus, meeting and observing people inside my city, during everyday life, talking with them... that strongly helps me to feel amazing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Joining CS events, being stimulate by other CSers activities to try something new everyday, hosting people whenever I can and I find someone really curious to me :)

Surfing couches all over the world, of course!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My guests

Málaga
(living with Pietro Pellegrino)
Michał + Julia Bijok - DEC 2009
Dimitri Lewkowicz - DEC 2009
Flo Dähne - DEC 2009
Müjgan Cihan (and Guillermo Román) - JAN 2010
Beata Kmita - FEB 2010
Cody Collins - APR 2010
Francesco Maria Lauri - APR 2010
Mark Bradley - APR 2010
Ryan James Heinz - APR 2010
Benedetta Caprotti (and Virginie Bruno) - APR 2010
Mauriii - APR 2010
Adriana Boylan (and David Delio) - APR 2010
Rudolph Brand - APR 2010
Ljosha Ch - MAY 2010
Elise Pärnamets - MAY 2010
Mark Bradley, again - MAY 2010

Roma
Amanda Cadle - NOV 2010
Laura Bogza - NOV 2010
Monica Bogza - NOV 2010
Alex Mass - MAR 2011
Ryan James Heinz, again in Rome! - MAR 2011
Pietro Pellegrino - MAR 2011

New York City
Audrey Brouxel (and Aymeric Boniou) - APR 2011
klyngon - APR 2011

Lausanne
Olivia Antonio - JAN 2012
VAN_GAALEN - MAR 2012
Mary-the - MAR 2012
Juliana Tenorio - MAR 2012
Lorenz Neuberger - APR 2012
Lucía Martinez - MAI 2012
Christian Lamprea Méndez - MAY 2012
Mary-the, again! - MAY 2012
klyngon - JUN 2012
Mary-the, well, just living with us! - JUN 2012
Adrien French CSer, great flatmate! - JUN 2012
Lukas Bennemann - JUN 2012
Patricia Manzano + friend - JUN 2012
Or Shemtov - JUN 2012
Joanna Hou - JUN 2012
Simon KONG - JUN 2012
PAUWIKAN + friend - JUN 2012
Marta Font + friend - JUN 2012
STEPH_BEN + friend - JUN 2012
Jeroen Komen - JUN/JUL 2012
Tesni Rowlands And Amy Lynch - JUL 2012
Dani Álvarez - JUL 2012
Michelle Salinas - JUL 2012
Gonzalo Maqueda - JUL 2012
Yann Herrera - JUL 2012
Sooyeon Baek - JUL 2012
Robbert Dijkstra +3 friends - JUL 2012
Joanna Trochimowicz + 1 friend - JUL 2012
Jola Pchełka Dereń - JUL 2012
Zofia Ostoja-Starzycka - JUL 2012
Agnieszka Gonciarska - JUL 2012

My hosts

Agusticassa - Girona, ES - FEB 2010
Carolina Carreras - Girona, ES - FEB 2010
ALEXWINWAR - Krakow, PL - SEP 2010
Adam Abed Midani - Amman, JOR - OCT 2010
Luigi Ferro - Perugia, IT - JAN 2011
Claudio Daniel Perna - Isernia, IT - FEB 2011
Donald Doherty - New York City, NY, USA - MAR & APR 2011
Michele Enrico Bellino - Catania, IT - OCT 2011
Titony Ralainarivo-Rollin - Genève, CH - NOV 2011
Titony Ralainarivo-Rollin, again, thank you! - Genève, CH - DEC 2011
Jonas Toft Arnfred - Lausanne, CH - DEC 2011
Jonas Toft Arnfred, again - Lausanne, CH - JAN 2012
CRISTINAPOLLONIA - Lausanne, CH - FEB 2012
Nora de Guglielmo - Lausanne, CH - MAR 2012
CRISTINAPOLLONIA, again - Lausanne, CH - MAR 2012
Elimane Ba, Dakar, SN - SEP 2012
Avelina Merkel, Dakar, SN - SEP 2012
Katja Rupp-Huckele, Füssen, D - NOV 2012
NIRNEVE, Berlin, D - JAN 2013
Gene Gisin, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA - JUL 2014
Paul Hopper, Santa Cruz, CA, USA - JUL 2014
Agam Rifidikan, Jakarta, Java, IN - SEP 2014
Francisco jacobus, Manado, Sulawesi, IN - SEP 2014
Sean Evans, Ubud, Bali, IN - OCT 2014
Narendra Duhita, Sedang, Bali, IN - OCT 2014
Mia Joe Prama, Madiun, Java, IN - OCT 2014
Bjarki Fjarki Rúnar Gunnarsson & Magnús Már Guðmundsson, Reykjavík, IS - SEP & OCT 2017

Interests

Social and ethnocultural psychology.
Environmental neuroscience.
Photography and writing in reports.
Cuisine, both italian and international, especially from Africa, Middle East, and Asiatic.
Sports: capoeira, kayaking, waterpolo, skiing, table-tennis, swimming, diving, surfing, basketball, volleyball, golf.
Acting and theater, especially contemporary comedy and classical italian and british operas from XV to XIX century.
Last but not least... Travelling. Meeting new people and enjoying all of our cultures, definitely :-)

• pets
• dogs
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• photography
• acting
• dining
• italian food
• cooking
• running
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• hiking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• skiing
• sports
• anthropology
• biology
• ecology
• history
• languages
• medicine
• neuroscience
• psychology
• sociology
• study abroad
• tourism
• rivers
• mountains
• nature
• trekking
• nature walks
• nature conservation
• jungle trekking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies, music and books are three things that really characterize me; I love so much to watch many films (also more than one a day) and I read books and listen to music in every moment.

Some examples:

Movies

Million dollar baby
V for Vendetta
Remember the titans
Rain man
Philadelphia
Full metal jacket
Patch Adams
Dances with wolves

Books

Essay

Did you spot the gorilla? How to recognise hidden opportunities in your life - Richard Wiseman
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? - Robin Dunbar
Il cervello anarchico - Enzo Soresi
Living Loving and Learning - Leo F. Buscaglia
The emerging mind - Vilayanur Ramachandran
Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation - Steven B. Johnson

Fiction

The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Oceano mare - Alessandro Baricco
Seta - Alessandro Baricco
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore - Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo - Italo Calvino
The Third Twin - Ken Follett
A Dangerous Fortune - Ken Follett
World Without End - Ken Follett
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The lord of the rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Stieg Larsson's trilogy
La solitudine dei numeri primi - Paolo Giordano
Gomorra - Roberto Saviano
L'Élégance du hérisson - Muriel Barbery

Music

International music

Queen, the best of the best in the world.
Cat Stevens, that i love so much and remember me my childhood.
The Beatles, the milestone.
Dire Straits, exciting rock.
James Blunt, sound of my soul.
Bob Marley
Acoustic Alchemy, magic guitars.
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Amos Lee - latest news from U. S. music.

Italian music

Lucio Battisti
Francesco de Gregori
Roberto Vecchioni
Negramaro
Gianna Nannini
Fiorella Mannoia
Zucchero Fornaciari

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mmh... very hard question... I think each day is a very nice experience; just look towards the highest point in the sky and not the lowest under our feet. If the sun shines into our eyes everything will appear in a new and special light. And we will find reasons for laughing everywhere :)

Teach, Learn, Share

Neuroscience means life. Neuronal networks don't mean only biology and genetic studies, but also talking, thinking, sharing... Anthropology, philosophy, cultures, history, all is based on our thoughts and experience. That's what I work with and the passion I want to share with CSers.
Then I can teach you how to shoot a nice pic or how to plan a very funny cooking session!

I'm always trying to be an open-minded person; that means that I want to learn what people desire to teach me; I found the best CSers at all so far, and they teached me atoms of life day by day. Thank you all folks :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Gambia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Iceland, Indonesia, Jordan, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Senegal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

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