Fe·lix Gieß·mann, n.
[ˈfeːliːks ˈɡiːsˌman]

Recently (Dec 2022) someone thought the following would be some sort of SQL error. It's a joke. You may replace the variables manually to fix this website.

env $INDIVIDUAL="Felix", HOMETOWN="Wuppertal", SPAWN_LOC="51°16'28.6"N 7°08'31.6"E", SELF_ASSESSED_INTELLIGENCE' of type 'Integer' cannot be set to null or empty value.‎

As of 2022, $INDIVIDUAL is a graduate student of Political Science, Development Economics and Geography in South Asia at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Accomplishments since his involuntary introduction to this world at $SPAWN_LOC in 1994:

• Graduated in Political Science and Economics at the University of $HOMETOWN in 2019.
• He worked at r-tec Cyber Security for roughly three-and-a-half years.
• He lived in Bangalore between 2016 and 2017.
• He studied at Jawaharlal Nehru University in $CAPITAL_CITY_OF_INDIA.
• He studied at University of Göttingen from 2020-2022 but left to be in the same city as …
• … his wife Varsha who is an awesome person, aspiring Conference Interpreter and LaTeX-Nerd.

He can be reached via email at $INDIVIDUAL{at}giessmann.net or via Mastodon. My public key fingerprint is
6D9C 0E29 898F 38E6 9D80 139C 036E DCD6 BCFE 650B

My research interests.

Hindu nationalism, development economics, comparative nationalism studies, state-sponsored internet-trolls ^{plz sponsor me}

My personal interests.

• GNU/Linux (especially openSUSE) and ThinkPads
• Indian cuisine
• Hosting guests from abroad

My favourite quotes

“Particularly difficult to play: Piano concertos by Rachmaninov. Particularly hard to rinse: vanilla sauce residue on the whisk.”  –  Max Goldt.

Formal stuff

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