Dum Agni Leonis Fiant

Born to Egyptian-Cuban parents at sea. Grew up between Berlin and Giza. I am trilingual in English, German, and Arabic.

At 18, I started my journey of becoming a physicist while simultaneously planning a youth uprising toward democracy —aka the Egyptian revolution. There were no trials, I was shot and detained by the military, but I was lucky; many of my comrades were “forcibly disappeared.”

I spent my 20s traversing the globe twice over, starting in Hong Kong. My travels taught me many fascinating traditions and several Eastern languages, especially Mandarin. My adventure started with climbing Himlung Himal in Nepal. There, a magical spell bound me to solo rock-climb for the rest of my life. The next year, I sailed across the Indian Ocean to cook islands. When I returned from sea, I helped rescue refugee children in the Malacca Strait and establish a refugee school in Malaysia.

As I dove into my first quarter-century, I made my way to Germany and then to the United States, where I am pursuing a doctorate in Particle Physics and occasionally teaching rock climbing and tactical rappelling.

RUGGED ADVENTURER

• Laura-Maria: “wears a 5 o’clock shadow like he was born with it”
• Climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza.
• Instructor certified by Climb Wal Association & Deutscher AlpenVerein.
• Unofficial world record holder: most broken bones.
• Likes: Adventurousness, Beatitude, and Curiosity
• Hates: Unpunctuality, Texting, and Dictators.

Testing the limits of human spirit is my passion. I like Rappelling, Climbing, Archery, skydiving, freediving, Kungfu, Ballet, Ukulele, horses & motorcycles. I spend long times contemplating Gravitation, dimensions, ethics, orgasm, and the novel 1984 by Orwell.

PLANS

• Unravel the mysteries surrounding the hypothesis of Quantum-Gravity
• Get licensed in solo skydiving/HALO jumping
• Make my 007 roadster electric.
• Sail my own fishing boat around Latin America

Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose. So let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you.. and you may call me Tensor