“One day, I’ll go to Italy”, these are the words of a 10-year-old Özgür after Italy won the 2006 football World Cup. At that moment Italy entered both his mind and his heart. Özgür comes from Marmaris, a tourist town in the south-western Turkey where he lived until the age of 14, when he moved
Mitra is an energetic and passionate woman, a teacher, student, tennis and football player. She loves learning and challenging herself in always new activities and sports and her routine could make one think whether her day is of 24 hours or if she found the way to double them. She comes from the North of
“The land of coconuts”, better known as Kèrala state, is a small southwestern state of India and land of origin of Abdul Haneefa Kummali, medical physicist and traveller always in search of new professional opportunities to catch. He speaks Malayalam, a regional language and cultural identifier of Kèralan people. There he studied physics in both
Nathali is from the Brazilian city of Mococa, a small municipality in the state of São Paulo, and her link to Italy is deeper than she thought at first. She moved in Lodi, close to Milan, for an exchange period during her PhD, and once there she discovered that the parents of her mother’s grandparents
Antoine was born in Aleppo in 1993, and 13 years ago everything changed in his life. In the wake of the Arab Springs, the Syrian people also began to express their dissent against an authoritarian regime in power for 40 years. Soon, peaceful demonstrations to demand freedom, democracy and dignity turned into a full-scale Revolution
Research, commitment, Havana. These three words could represent Diango, a Cuban medical physicist who has been a researcher at the Department of Physics of the University of Turin since 2021. Diango was born and grew up in Havana close to one of the most famous streets of all Cuba, the Malecón Habanero. 10 km of
These are the words of Rosina, born in Turin (Italy) but with a double surname, a dual citizenship and her heart divided among Italy and Peru. Her origins range from the Peruvian Ande, and in particular from Callejón de Huaylas, a city of the Ancash region of western Peru and her mother’s city of origin,
“At 28 years old, I decided to embark on a research journey, research in mathematics, in Italy”. Alexandre was born in Curitiba, the capital of the state of Parana, in the southern part of Brazil, on the edge of São Paulo. He is a mathematician by profession, an analyst… But who is an analyst? “I
Permanently in Italy since late 2007, Magdalena is 42 years old and originally from Poland, specifically Chelm (20 km from the Ukrainian border), although she grew up in Slezia. She speaks Polish, Italian, French, Spanish, English and a little Russian. She learned Italian through an intensive course at the University for Foreigners in Calabria and
Paula arrived in Italy in 2016. Originally from Buenos Aires, she speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Italian. Arriving on a study visa, she managed to obtain citizenship (iure sanguinis, having an Italian great-grandfather), but not recognition of her entire university career. Of the six years she devoted in Argentina to obtaining a bachelor’s degree in
