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

Titus Dose has defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Balance Problems for Integer Circuits and Separations of Relativized Conjectures on Incompleteness in Promise Classes" in a disputation on January 21.

Andre Löffler has defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Constrained Graph Layouts: Vertices on the Outer Face and on the Integer Grid" in a public disputation on October 23.

Myroslav Kryven has defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Optimizing Crossings in Circular-Arc Drawings and Circular Layouts" in a public disputation on October 2.