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GRADUATION TIME - HURRAY Over the past years, a large number of students combined their studies with helping us out in our biogas business. Now they all just finalized their Master of Science (MSc) with thesis in different areas – lets celebrate together! Working as a student assistant is not about stepping in on the more boring part of developing the low carbon solutions the worlds need. It is about playing a part in a bigger purpose, about learning and growing yourself. Sometimes even about challenging our assumptions (and occasionally winning the argument). Now keep doing that! Sakariye Shariif Yuusuf Hirsi graduated Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology with a thesis on the co-digestion potential of high-nutrient biomass substrates. Christine Søgaard graduated in Environmental Engineering and Data Science with a thesis on how to predict week-ahead electricity prices in the Danish bidding zones using machine learning models to assist assist grid operators with planning. Maria Gaard Hansen graduated in Biomedicine with a thesis on the active microbial transcriptome in the biogas reactors during anaerobic digestion of sugar beet pulp. Increased knowledge of microbial activity can help facilitate more optimal and stable biogas production. Line Boysen Christensen in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology with a thesis on the temperature influence on biogas production. Thomas Stadil Thomsen graduated in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology with a thesis on how to predict the biogas production based on the existing feedstock by utilizing transformers, non-linear regressions and optimizations, as well as machine learning models. Nikolai Nørgaard Trønnes graduated in Biotechnology with at thesis on rapid anaerobic digestion (AD) start-up. Investigation of the microbial community response using 16S rRNA gene sequencing revealed how the AD microbiome adapted and enhanced the accumulative biogas yield. Lasse Steffensen graduated in Biotechnology with a thesis on linking 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing data to metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). By improving the linking of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing data to MAGs, he gained MAG-level process insight into AD reactors at the cost of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Lærke Damgaard Madsen graduated in Economics, with a thesis on how energy cost shocks and transition expectations influence housing market dynamics. Using causal inference methods, the study analyses differential price effects across fossil and non-fossil heating systems. Viktorija Mahlineca graduated in Data Driven Business Development with thesis on data driven evaluation of biomass procurement efficiency for biogas production. Thank you all for playing your part when it comes to security of supply of energy and fertilizer. And thank you Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark and Aalborg Universitet and all the supporters and helpers!