Oksana Firman successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled "Node-Link, Obstacle, and Intersection Representations of Graphs and Hypergraphs" on June 28, 2024.

Johannes Zink was awarded the joint doctoral prize of the Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung für Wissenschaft and the University of Würzburg for his outstanding dissertation titled "Algorithms for Drawing Graphs and Polylines with Straight-Line Segments" on May 14, 2024.

Felix Klesen successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Geometric Representations of Graphs: Theory and Application" on March 21, 2024.

Jonathan Klawitter has received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis of the University of Auckland.