Making Julius into an alumnus 🤗

Author: Pseudomanifold

content/people.md

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ starting a collaboration with us.
 
 <div class="people-card-container">
     {{< person "BR" >}}
-    {{< person "JvR" >}}
     {{< person "JW" >}}
     {{< person "KL" >}}
     {{< person "ER" >}}
@@ -52,6 +51,7 @@ Your name is missing here! Learn more about [joining us]({{< relref "/contact" >
 - Kalyan Varma Nadimpalli (now a research assistant at Helmholtz Munich)
 - [Barış Onarıcı](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barisonarici-a271828182845904523/)
 - Giacomo Parolin
+- [Julius von Rohrscheidt](https://www.rohrscheidt.com) (PhD, 2026)
 - Yevhenii Sharapov
 - [Daniel Bīn Schmid](https://danielbinschmid.com)
 - [Emily Simons](https://emsimons.github.io/me)

data/news.toml

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 # key, format it correctly (YYYY-MM-DD), and you are set. The *value*
 # attached to your key supports Markdown directly.
 
+2026-03-06 = """
+  Julius defended his dissertation "Robust Topological Representation
+  Learning" with *magna cum laude* and is the **first PhD student of the
+  lab to gradudate**. Congratulations and all the best for your future
+  career, Julius! It was a pleasure working with you!
+"""
+
 2026-01-26 = """
   🎉 Our work on [*LEAP: Local ECT-Based Learnable Positional Encodings
   for Graphs*](https://openreview.net/forum?id=8XFPhByERc) was accepted