I am Sira. I grew up in Horn-Bad Meinberg, which is a very small city in the middle of Germany between Bielefeld and Paderborn, and moved to Münster in 2013 in order to study mathematics. I finished my master's degree in 2020. After that I worked as a software engineer and an author for some time until I came back to academia in 2022. That is when I started my PhD program. I am interested in buildings, incidence geometry, group theory and combinatorics. In my free time I like to do a buch of different things, including powerlifting, cycling, running and painting my face with makeup.

Short curriculum vitae:

• 2022 and ongoing: PhD student, Mathematics Münster Graduate School, Universität Münster.
• 2021-2022: Worked as an author and wrote a book about how norms and stereotypes prohibit equality. Find it here.
  
• 2020-2021: Worked as a software engineer. I was interested in and worked with: Go, Python, Java, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, SQL, Terraform, REST, Containerisation, Bash, Git, Github.
• 2017-2020: Master of Science Mathematics, Universität Münster, Minor subject: Philosophy.
• 2013-2017: Bachelor of Science Mathematics, Universität Münster, Minor subject: Philosophy.

Poetry Slam.

I had my first poetry slam performance when I was 17 and started to perfrom regularly in 2012, when I was 18. I performed at the North Rhine-Westphalia Championships in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017 I participated as an MC. I performed at the international German Championships in the U20 division in 2013 and 2014. I performed at the international German Championships in the open division in 2013 and 2017. My biggest performance so far was at the Mikrokosmos Poetry Slam of the Deichbrand Festival . It is Europe's largest poetry slam with over 5000 people in the audience. My best-known performance was for Poetry Slam TV and has almost half a million views on Youtube. You can find it here. You can find a list of publications here.

Sports.

I started powerlifting in 2015. My first competition was the Insanity meet in November 2018, where I finished with a 100kg squat, 62.5kg bench press and 140kg deadlift. After that I competed at the North Rhine-Westphalia Championship of the BVDK (belongs to the IPF) in June 2019 and squatted 105kg, bench pressed 67.5kg and deadlifted 140kg. I qualified for the German Championship with that. My last competition was again at the Insanity meet in 2019. There I squatted 110kg, bench pressed 72.5kg and deadlifted 150kg. Current gym prs are 120kg squat, 85kg bench press and 160kg deadlift. My bodyweight has always been around 72kg during that time. I am now not competing anymore. I still lift. I also like running and cycling. My longest run so far had a distance of 42.61km, my longest ride had a distance of 211.60km and my best average power output during one hour on an indoor trainer has been 236W.

Other stuff.

I started to learn to play the clarinet when I was 11, even though I always wanted to learn to play the saxophone. A few years later I managed to switch to saxophone and played in a jazz big band for my whole teenage years. After moving to Münster I was not able to practice anymore. Nowadays I enjoy make up art a lot.

Languages.

My first language is German. I am fluent in English. I learned French in school for 3 years and obtained the DELF-A2 certificate during that time. I have started to practice and expand my French again a few years ago. I can understand written and spoken Dutch fluently without any issues. I am not yet fluent in speaking and writing Dutch myself (but soon!). I have some basic knowledge of Swedish.

Pronouns.

I prefer they/them pronouns.