About Me#
Introduction#
Hi there ! Here is the place you will find a bit more about who I am, what I do and why I do it. Or maybe it is not.
I am a PhD student in physics and more specifically in applied fluid dynamics. My promoter is Denis Terwagne, a former Fab Academy student and together we are working on fog droplets dynamics in order to improve fog harvesting techniques such as fog nets.
Why the Fab Academy#
To do : complete
Short Anecdote#
Introductions always feel a bit weird to me because I get the impression that the habit of doing it made us accept the idea, first of all, that it was possible to get a good impression of who someone is with some "oriented" criteria (such as their professional activity or the sports they like to do the most) and secondly, that the concerned one is the best placed to do so.
I do not deny that this method can give some valuable informations about who one is, therefore I will use it, but let's keep in mind it is biased by the chosen criteria and the self-introduction process.
However I shall first share another way to introduce itself that I fortunaltely ran into few years ago during a quite boring party. It was one of my closest friend's birthday party, I did not know anyone except of her but she was quite busy trying to spend time which each one of her guests. Hence during roughly three hours I went from introduction to introduction and the quite exactly same scheme was repeating itself at each iteration :
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So... How do you know her ?
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[...], and you ?
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Oh nice ! Me, I [...]. What do you do in life ?
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[...], and you ?
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[...]
And at this point, either we were interested in each others professional/scholar activity and the discussion could keep going for a few questions, small debates either we were not and we passed to the next stranger. Usually, during these parties where I don't know anyone I keep going like that until, if I'm lucky, I get to someone with whom the connection goes well and I keep talking with them until the end of the party.
But this time, I thought I was not lucky. Three hours had passed, I was almost out of stranger to talk to. I could not leave since it was not midnight yet and I had to be there for the birthday song.
Suddenly one of the remaining stranger approached and started :
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What are you passionate about ?
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... What do you mean ?
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What makes you feel you're alive ?
I started thinking about it and this was the beginning of the discussion that accompanied me until the end of the party.
On my way home, I felt that I genuinely met someone. However I realised that I did not have any clue of what this last person was doing professionally and I would not stop thinking about how the other conversations I had this night could have gone if we started by the same question : "What makes you feel alive ?".
What makes me feel alive ?#
The things I have been passionate about have changed a lot during my life.
From my earliest childhood to my adolescence I loved drawing. I could spend hours and hours drawing without thinking about anything else and I dreamt about becoming a comic book artist.
I also quite early discovered video games and I was (and still am) a huge fan of Nintendo games (more specifically The Legend of Zelda). What I loved in video games was the exploration of a magical world and the puzzle solving. Then a unusual video game called Minecraft released and I loved it because of the creatuve possibilities it offered.
To do : Complete (Drawing, playing video games, architecture, astrophysics, philosophy)