On February 11, 2025, the new doctoral regulations of the Faculty of Computer Science took effect; the transitional provisions are set forth in §18(2).

For applications for admission as a doctoral candidate or for the submission of a dissertation that are to be filed under the new regulations, the following (partly new) forms may be used for the time being; the rest of the procedure remains, for now, as described in the previous links.

• Application for Admission as a Doctoral Candidate (prior to beginning the doctoral program; procedure as described at this link)
• Supervision Agreement
• Appendix to the Supervision Agreement
• Form: Specification of Requirements for the Qualification Phase
• Application for Admission to the Examination (upon submission of the dissertation; procedure as described at this link)

Prof. Dr. Janis Voigtländer (Chair)

Prof. Dr. Lucas Davi

Prof. Dr. Mario Nadj

Prof. Dr. Daniel Bodemer

Prof. Dr. Hannes Rothe

Prof. Dr. German Neubaum

Dr. Yannic Meier

Dr. Camilla Hrycak

Contact: promotionen.informatik@uni-due.de

2026

• Jana Dreston, awarded the Dr. phil. degree on June 30, 2026, supervised by Prof. Neubaum. From Political Knowledge to Informed Voting Decisions: Theoretical and Empirical Insights into the Role of Social Media News Exposure
• Xhulja Shahini, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on June 16, 2026, supervised by Prof. Pohl. On the Use of Conformal Prediction to Assist the Identification of Correct Change-level Fault Predictions
• Cleo Maximiliane Schulten, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on May 12, 2026, supervised by Prof. Chounta. Learning in Hackathons: Towards a Methodological Framework for the Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Interest-Driven, Community-Based Events
• Lukas Heine, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on April 27, 2026, supervised by Prof. Kleesiek. From Data to Diagnosis: Overcoming Challenges in the Clinical Machine Learning Lifecycle
• Lara Rose Elizabeth Wallentin, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on April 24, 2026, supervised by Prof. König. Verifying Graph Rewriting – Coinductive Techniques for Nested Conditions
• Annica Kessling, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on April 20, 2026, supervised by Prof. Brand. Affective, Cognitive, and Control Processes in Problematic Social Network Use: Towards an Integrative Understanding of a Potential Behavioral Addiction
• Piush Aggarwal, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on April 16, 2026, supervised by Prof. Zesch. Towards Reliable Multi-Modal Hate Detection: A Framework of Granularity, Robustness, Transferability, and Interpretability
• Tianheng Ling, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on March 13, 2026, supervised by Prof. Schiele. Deploying Time-Series Transformers on Embedded FPGAs: Feasibility, Hardware-Aware Optimization, and Comparative Evaluation
• Christian Gold, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on March 6, 2026, supervised by Prof. Zesch. Adapting Handwriting Recognition for Educational Assessment
• Saskia Weck, awarded the Dr. phil. degree on March 5, 2026, supervised by Prof. Krämer. Empathic Robots: How Users Perceive, Interpret, and Respond to Empathic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction
• Sünje Johanna Clausen, awarded the Dr. rer. pol. degree on March 3, 2026, supervised by Prof. Stieglitz. Corporate Digital Responsibility: Impact on Stakeholder Perception and Facilitating Implementation
• Gautam Kishore Shahi, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on March 3, 2026, supervised by Prof. Stieglitz. Empathic Robots: How Users Perceive, Interpret, and Respond to Empathic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction
• Linda Graf, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on February 26, 2026, supervised by Prof. Masuch. Virtual Encounters, Real Emotions: On the Influence of Emotional Virtual Characters on Human Experience
• Gurbandurdy Dovletov, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on February 25, 2026, supervised by Prof. Pauli. Empathic Robots: How Users Perceive, Interpret, and Respond to Empathic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction

2025

• Christopher Ehmke, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on December 22, 2025, supervised by Prof. Gruhn. Trift – A Graphical Notation for Fine-Grained Access Rules
• Jonathan Liebers, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on December 12, 2025, supervised by Prof. Schneegaß. Behavioral Biometrics in Extended Reality: Implicit User Authentication Through Artificial Intelligence
• Jens Ingo Leicht, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on November 17, 2025, supervised by Prof. Heisel. PriPoCoG: A Prolog-Based Framework for Handling GDPR-Compliant Privacy Policies
• Maren Hinrichs, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on October 13, 2025, supervised by Prof. Schneegaß. Human Interaction with Decision-Support Systems – Data-Driven Decision Support in Maintenance Management
• Rebecca Bernemann, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on September 29, 2025, supervised by Prof. König. Handling Uncertainty in System Behavior – Observing, Controlling and Learning
• Katja Herrmanny, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on November 3, 2025, supervised by Prof. Ziegler. Context-Adaptive Support for the Selection of Effective Activity Goals
• Mouadh Guesmi, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on July 24, 2025, supervised by Prof. Chatti. Explanatory Visualization for Transparent User Modeling and Recommendation
• Clemens Hoffmann, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on July 18, 2025, supervised by Prof. Prilla. The Role of Task Familiarity in AR HMD-Based Guidance and Training for Industrial Repair and Maintenance Tasks
• Ingo Börsting, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on July 15, 2025, supervised by Prof. Gruhn. Efficient Development of Augmented Reality Applications for the Industrial Domain: An Approach to Simplified, Interdisciplinary Modeling of Linear Augmented Reality User Interfaces
• Peder Bergan, awarded the Dr. rer. pol. degree on July 2, 2025, supervised by Prof. Ahlemann. Selected Essays on Digital Transformation: A Multi-Level Perspective
• Marie-Elisabeth Zubler née Godefroid, awarded the Dr. rer. pol. degree on June 5, 2025, supervised by Prof. Plattfaut. Influence of Cognitive Biases on IT Decisions in the Social Sector
• Verena Schürmann, awarded the Dr. phil. degree on June 5, 2025, supervised by Prof. Bodemer. Collaboration in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Framework for Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Facilitating Students’ Collaborative Learning
• Sajad Ghorbani, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on May 16, 2025, supervised by Prof. Unland. A Multi-Agent Energy Management System for Microgrids Considering Uncertainty
• Alia Saad, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on April 4, 2025, supervised by Prof. Schneegaß. Scaling Biometrics for the Privacy of Ubiquitous Technologies
• Michel Muschkiet, awarded the Dr. rer. pol. degree on March 19, 2025, supervised by Prof. Schütte. Analysis and Design of Customer Experiences in an Omnichannel Context Using Customer Digital Twins
• Martin Lukas Moder, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on March 4, 2025, supervised by Prof. Pauli. Generative Neural Networks and Their Application to Collaborative Robot Navigation
• Rebecca Prell, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on February 17, 2025, supervised by Prof. Brand. Self-Regulatory Challenges in Decision-Making: Cardiac Autonomic Modulation in Ambiguous, Risky, and Moral Situations
• Ekaterina Volodina, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on January 31, 2025, supervised by Prof. Rathgeb. Strategy for ACK Scaling Policy Optimization in QUIC
• Yuan Ma, awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree on January 28, 2025, supervised by Prof. Ziegler. Meta-Intents: Interaction Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems
• Luna Frauhammer, awarded the Dr. phil. degree on January 28, 2025, supervised by Prof. Neubaum. “How Do We Know What We Know?” Metacognitive Processes in Informal Learning on Social Media
• Adnan Aziz, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on January 20, 2025, supervised by Prof. Rathgeb. Real-Time Detection & Mitigation of SIP-Based VoIP Toll Fraud Attacks
• Hagen Tarner, awarded the Dr. rer. nat. degree on January 10, 2025, supervised by Prof. Beck. Interactive Evaluation and Contextualization of Software Performance

Before 2025

Ph.D. graduates in Computer Science who completed their studies before 2025 can be found on the list
https://fmidue.github.io/Promotionsausschuss-Informatik/Abschluesse.html

Ph.D. graduates in Business Informatics who completed their studies before 2025 can be found on the list
Auflistung abgeschlossener Promotionen vor 2025 WiInf Essen [PDF]