Today, Katharina Ost successfully defended her PhD thesis in the presence of friends and colleagues, her Doktormutter Prof. Mareike Dirks-Hofmeister, and her two other committee members, Prof. Arthur Ram from the University of Leiden, NL, and Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher (who, thus, became Doktorgroßvater, as Mareike pointed out) from the University of Münster which is also in charge of awarding the doctoral degree. Read more...