Updated news

Author: Pseudomanifold

content/people.md

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 - Ferdinand Hölzl (now a master's student at University of Hamburg)
 - Kalyan Varma Nadimpalli (now a research assistant at Helmholtz Munich)
 - [Barış Onarıcı](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barisonarici-a271828182845904523/)
+- Giacomo Parolin
 - Yevhenii Sharapov
 - [Daniel Bīn Schmid](https://danielbinschmid.com)
 - [Emily Simons](https://emsimons.github.io/me)

data/news.toml

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 # key, format it correctly (YYYY-MM-DD), and you are set. The *value*
 # attached to your key supports Markdown directly.
 
+2025-12-19 = """
+  👏 Our academic visitor Giacomo (Parolin) defended his MSc thesis
+  "Differentiable Euler Characteristic Transform for Molecular
+  Prediction" with the highest possible exam grade "cum laude."
+  Congratulations!
+"""
+
 2025-10-24 = """
   🎉 Jeremy's paper [*Strategies to accelerate US coal power phase-out
   using contextual retirement