We are delighted to announce that on July 4th, 2025, our colleague Tilman Beck successfully defended his PhD thesis »Context Matters – Analysis and Integration of Contextual Factors for Stance Classification Models«! Congratulations to Tilman and best wishes for his future career!

The referees of the dissertation were Prof. Dr. Reiner Hähnle (chair) Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych (both TU Darmstadt), Prof. Dr. Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg), and Prof. Dr. Marcus Maurer (University of Mainz).