On 15 September 2026, UKP doctoral candidate Haritz Puerto successfully defended his thesis »Enhancing Reasoning in Language Models Through Representations, Cooperation, and Generation« at TU Darmstadt.

The examination committee included Prof. Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU), Prof. Jan Peters, Prof. Adi Akavia, and Prof. Iryna Gurevych (all TU Darmstadt).

We offer our congratulations to Haritz and wish him all the best for his future career.