Our former colleague Lukas Stappen successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Videos’ on the 19th of October 2022. The examiners were Lukas's supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Björn Schuller, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg), Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (University of Augsburg) and PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Ronald Böck (Genie Enterprise Inc.). Congratulations!