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On 17 October, Johanna Ziegel gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "How good is their best guess? Constructing and evaluating predictions". She has been a full professor of statistics in the Department since 1 January 2024.

Yuansi Chen joined the Department of Mathematics as an associate professor of statistics at the beginning of this year. His research interests are centred around problems in Bayesian statistics and machine learning, but cross disciplinary boundaries – a theme that is also reflected in his teaching.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann received the 2024 Wald Memorial Award and Lecture and will deliver the Wald Lecture at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Bochum.

Johanna Ziegel has been a full professor of statistics since 1 January 2024. Her research at the intersection of statistics, risk management, financial mathematics, and interdisciplinary data sciences revolves around forecasting in a broad variety of contexts – and provides mathematical tools to tell when a prediction is "good".

Felix Kuchelmeister successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Classification with small noise". Congratulations!

Harald Besdziek successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Convergence rates of estimators based on the maximum likelihood estimator in the presence of mixing". Congratulations!