🥳 I am very happy to share that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis in Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin last Friday.

📖 My dissertation presents the design and evaluation of a course recommendation system to support students at risk of dropping out. By analyzing performance differences across three undergraduate programs and involving students early in development, the system was designed to be transparent, interpretable, and accessible to all.

🙏 I sincerely thank Agathe Merceron for her guidance and encouragement, as well as petra sauer and Niels Pinkwart for their support and academic advice throughout the cooperative doctoral program. I am also grateful to Irene-Angelica Chounta for serving as external reviewer, and to Gergana Vladova, Thomas Kosch, and Dr. Leo Sylvio Rüdian for being part of the doctoral committee.

It is available at https://doi.org/10.18452/35846

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