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Hotel Lycium
Hunyadi Janos u 1
Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar, 4026
Hungary

Adrienn Olson

Born and raised in Hungary, Adrienn has spent most of her adult life outside her homeland. Having lived in eight different states of the U.S., including Hawaii, and two Latin American countries (Honduras and Colombia), she has fully experienced what it means to be a migrant. She completed her formal education at the School for International Training, CEU, and at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Her career trajectory has been as colorful as her choices of residence. She has worked in rural development, financial planning, real estate investment, and higher education management. Currently she is the President of Budapest Toastmasters, the oldest Hungarian club of Toastmasters International. After having found her voice she now helps others to find theirs as a Public Speaking and Presentation Consultant.

Elena Daniela

Elena Daniela Călin is a positive words researcher and founder of Positive Words Research. She has been excelling in this for the past six years. She’s made the best list of positive words in the world. When you type “POSITIVE WORDS” on Google, this list comes up first. She organizes workshops in State Schools and multinational companies, where she teaches on the power of positive words. Before discovering this passion, Elena worked as a financial auditor for 10 years

Ioana Maria

is currently a 4th year Erasmus exchange student at the University of Debrecen, Medical School. She is originally from Romania. She grew up in a family of teachers and was always surrounded by people who were dedicating their lives to help and empower others. For the past few years, she saw volunteering as a way of living and has been trying her best to make a difference, in the best way she could. There were times in which it was terribly difficult to stay optimistic, especially because there were so many obstacles that she came across. However, she managed to overcome her fears and built strong partnerships with people.

Lipsa Rani Panda

Lipsa rani panda, is a 19 year old enthusiastic biologist from India in University of Debrecen, Hungary. She is an Undergraduate Scholarship holder in Debrecen University who is very particular about deep talks on life accompanied by coffee and Novels. We have been talking about depression, Violence and increased suicide rates but we bother very less to mark an eye on one of the underlying problem, Bullying. Why is our psychological state not respected? Why is silence regarded as a sign of weakness? Few words can't be left unsaid at this point anymore.

Marina Schnörch

Marina lives in Debrecen. She’s a BSc architect student at the University of Debrecen. Also, a volunteer for Invisible University and a mentor in the Invisible School. She loves floating on her back in the sea of her thoughts and to share these to anybody around her.

Maryam Kalantari

Maryam is an architect and musician from Isfahan, Iran. She finished her bachelors in architecture from Islamic Azad University . She pursued her masters degree from the Architectural Association (AA) School of architecture in London in 2014. Her studies at the AA changed her view towards architecture. It made her to benefit from experiences of the well-known architects such as Patrick Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos and Shajay Bhooshan, etc. She has a 4 years of work experience as an architect and also has a taught at IAU (Iran). She has also taught at many workshops such as Re-coding couture I, II, Arch(k)inetic, Fabricast etc, mainly focusing on fashion design , architecture and jewelry design.

Melinda Babits

Living in Debrecen, currently doing her PhD in biology after her zoological specialization master, MELINDA BABITS had always been fascinated by insects and other invertebrates. Caring for such creepy-crawly animals and observing their behaviour started as a hobby while she was in highschool and after being accepted to the University of Debrecen it became her passion and profession as well. She has started working at the Behavioural Ecology Research Group in 2013. Her main area of interest is the relationship between the social environment and individual-level behaviour in arthropods.

Melinda Babtis

Living in Debrecen, currently doing her PhD in biology after her zoological specialization master, MELINDA BABTIS had always been fascinated by insects and other invertebrates. Caring for such creepy-crawly animals and observing their behaviour started as a hobby while she was in highschool and after being accepted to the University of Debrecen it became her passion and profession as well. She has started working at the Behavioural Ecology Research Group in 2013. Her main area of interest is the relationship between the social environment and individual-level behaviour in arthropods.

Mirlan Karimov

Currently residing in Budapest Mr.Mirlan Karimov is a science communicator, young researcher and mechanical engineering student. He is a winner of FameLab Azerbaijan and was a representative of his country in leading science communication competition FameLab International 2016. He also frequently gives public talks on natural sciences. He is a founder of science communication project "Traveling Science" which aims to travel around the world and make short documentary movies on science and scientists. His interests lie in the natural sciences, engineering design and scientific journalism.

Nwachukwu Chikeziem OBINNA

An Application Developer at ExxonMobil BSC Hungary with a passion for science and technology. Attended the University of Debrecen from 2012 until 2018, attaining a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, and MSc in Mechatronics Engineering. Developed/assembled an autonomous quadcopter for his MSc thesis project while holding a leadership role in the international student union; as well as being a mentor for new students at the University. His motto: It's no so difficult, all you have to do is learn and practice.

Nwachukwu Obinna

An Application Developer at ExxonMobil BSC Hungary with a passion for science and technology. Attended the University of Debrecen from 2012 until 2018, attaining a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, and MSc in Mechatronics Engineering. Developed/assembled an autonomous quadcopter for his MSc thesis project while holding a leadership role in the international student union; as well as being a mentor for new students at the University. His motto: It's no so difficult, all you have to do is learn and practice.

Paris John

Paris John Stravos is an adventurous English chap all the way from England, who is currently living in Czech Republic. He’s spent the past few years of his life volunteering and traveling. Now he is the Chief Development Officer of Point Camp International; a children’s English language camp that is based in Eastern Europe. He has performed comedy in both English and Russian and strives to perform it in at least three other languages.