Born in Kyiv 48 years ago, Oleksii has lived in Italy for more than 20 years. He speaks Ukrainian, English, Russian and Italian, which he learned with ease, having taken several courses in our language. His choice of Italy, which occurred in 2000 and was stimulated by winning a call for a research project, was
Svetlana is from Belarus and is 41 years old. She has lived in Turin since 2013 and describes herself as “a Turin native”. She is fluent in five languages: Belarusian, Russian, English, Italian, and German (which she has also taught), and for work, she has also learned some French and understands both Ukrainian and Polish.
Samuel was born in Caracas and raised in Barquissimeto, where the Andes mountain range originates. Proud of his two surnames, Scarpato (from his father, a Venezuelan born and raised in Italy) and Mejuto (from his mother, a Galician Celt, Venezuelan born and raised in Spain), Samuel, 49, has dual citizenship, Italian and Spanish. His origins
Originally from Serbia, specifically from the town of Apatin on the border with Croatia, Doriana, 34, speaks English, Italian, Serbian and a little Spanish. In Serbia, she majored in General Mathematics and minored in Applied Mathematics at the University of Novi Sad. She arrived In Italy in November 2015, to attend the PhD program in
Oleh is 29 years old and was born in Volodymyr, a medium-sized city located in the western part of Ukraine near Poland. He speaks Ukrainian, English, Polish, a little Italian and Portuguese. He first came to Italy, specifically to Rome, in 2016 as part of an Erasmus Program that provided semester-long study stays in different
Originally from Alexandria, Egypt, Marwa is 31 years old and a biotechnologist and molecular biologist. She first came to Italy in 2014 to participate in an international Euro-Mediterranean master’s program in neuroscience and biotechnology involving the universities of Egypt, Morocco and Lebanon and three European universities, Turin, Valencia and Bordeaux. Returning to Egypt at the
Born in Mendoza 32 years ago, Ornella Baffini grew up in a neighbourhood in downtown Buenos Aires. A native Spanish speaker, she speaks English and Italian. Italy is in her DNA, however: her grandparents, in fact, were born in Abruzzo and then emigrated to Argentina…and Ornella decided to retrace their steps. The difficult situation in
Milad was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1983. He speaks “bad Italian,” English and Persian, his native language. He has lived in Turin since his arrival in Italy 11 years ago. At 18, given a choice, Milad chose college over military service. After passing the difficult entrance exam, he enrolled in the Bachelor of Science
Tugce was born in Nazilli, a small town in western Turkey, 33 years ago. She speaks Turkish, English and Italian, some German and is learning French. She left Turkey ten years ago when she went to study in Portugal, where she graduated in Product Design in 2012. Then, she moved to England, where she earned
Away from her native India, Shree Madhu Bhat, 27, a virologist, arrived in Italy in October 2019, just before the Covid pandemic broke out, to attend a doctoral program in biological sciences at the University of Turin. After three years in Italy, Shree still uses Google Translate when she goes to the supermarket, and she
