After 5 years of research, Hendric Voss defended his PhD thesis on generating semantically meaningful and contextually relevant gestures – Congratulations on a great, very “global” defense with examiners Prof. Catherine Pelachaud joining from Japan and Prof. Michael Neff from California (US).

Annika Österdiekhoff successfully defended her PhD thesis on modeling a sense of control in RL agents. Congratulations!! And many thanks to Verena Hafner (Humboldt U, Berlin) and Nele Russwinkel (U Lübeck) for  being on the examination committee.