Dr.-Ing. Sorin Liviu Jurj

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve taken a closer look at China, as I’m seriously considering living there in the near future (so far, I’m most interested in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou). From what I’ve gathered, it’s often seen as not only a safer country but also a much cleaner and affordable one compared [...]

I have been on a long journey to decide where to buy our first home in Germany. This is not simply a question of price, but of how a city feels to live in, its rhythm, its spaces, and how well it meets both our needs and our way of life. While we plan to [...]

Compared to other cities I’ve lived in, the food scene in Chemnitz is fairly limited, especially when it comes to good Italian cuisine. So I was genuinely excited to find out that L’Osteria opened its first location here in February 2025 under the name L’Osteria Chemnitz Rosenhof. I used to really enjoy their pizza when [...]

Due to some Reinforcement Learning training I did at the time, I went all-in on a dream PC setup at the end of 2022. I built a system that should handle everything from Artificial Intelligence related work to 4K gaming and other demanding creative workloads. My build included an Intel Core i9-13900K processor paired with [...]

It’s been almost two years since I bought my Dacia Duster Mat Edition, and today, for the first time, I took it to an automatic car wash here in Chemnitz. When I lived in Oldenburg, where I worked as a researcher at the German Aerospace Center, I used to wash the car manually at the [...]

When I leave the apartment without taking the car, I always carry three essential items: a) my apartment keys, which are in a small key wallet that also holds a USB stick and a few coins; b) my smartphone, and c) my regular wallet with my ID, bank cards, and other necessities. Today, for the [...]

Since a few days, I’m in Naples, Italy, enjoying some well-deserved holidays. The main reason for coming to this city was to try pizza Napoletana, my favorite pizza, as you might already know from my old posts seen here and here. I always like to order a pizza Margherita. My favorite place to go and [...]

If you own an old HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus printer (like I do), which doesn’t want to connect to your WIFI network anymore because you recently changed your Internet provider, e.g., to Telekom, don’t think about buying a new printer just yet. As you can also read in this post, all you have to [...]

On 21 October 2024, I started working as a Scientific Officer for the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) in Brussels, Belgium. My last working day on this interim contract is the 18th of April 2025, but tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the European Commission is closed due to the Easter holidays; therefore, I [...]