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Next week, Lorenzo Porcaro will defend his PhD thesis with the title “Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners”.

I have to honor to chair the jury consisting of two legends in the field, Perfecto Herrera (UPF) and Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke (Spotify),—and myself. At UPF, the chair is indeed called president. When else will I have the opportunity to be called “the president” ;-)

It was a great pleasure to welcome Sven Müller (CEO at AutLay) in my master course on Adaptive Interactive Systems. In his guest lecture, Sven presented how we can use personalization in print and shared insights about their approaches at AutLay. I found the use cases from retail very inspiring. And I am convinced, the students got a new perspective on the topic of adaptive systems, too.

Last week, I had the pleasure giving a guest lecture in the scope of the minor program “MU$IC—The Economy, Sociology and Practice of Popular Music” at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. It was very inspiring to work with students from another discipline.