Damien Gauthier

Artist, Brainstormer, Consultant, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Performer, Producer, Scientist, Student

Both analytic and creative (Investigative-Artistic as my Holland personality profile says), I am looking for ways to use both left and right brains. On the left-brain side, I am a mathematician from EPFL with a PhD in probability and statistics, who is teaching mathematics at BA and MA level since 2001. In parallel, I enriched my activities with theatre project management, direction of actors, and acting myself. I love translating a preexisting script into an original artistic universe, delivering the best experience to the audience while serving the author intentions. Nowadays my career took another twist. I went back to school and completed a Master degree in psychology. Now I mostly work as User eXperience Designer for a Web Agency, crafting websites and applications to better serve the humans that will be using them.

Almost everything! I love theatre, art, science, physics, astrophysics, particule physics, innovation, technology, games, psychology, ethnology, books, dance... I'm curious about everything that involves human and understanding the world we live in.

Including people from seemingly very different horizons in a team makes ideas bubbling up and new paths can be found.

Acting, Cognitive psychology, Cultural event organisation, Directing, Mathematics, Theatre, User Experience, UX Design

As far as I remember I have been a TED fan, often quoting talks to my theatre colleagues. I first joined TEDxLausanne in 2010 as "performance coordinator" in the speaker selection team. Quickly I started wanting to be more involved and start talking with everyone in the organisation and now I would love to bring our event a step further by engaging in a more strategic role.

Finding links between 2 crazy apparently unrelated ideas ;)