Yupeng Zhao defends his thesis on “Water T2 relaxometry in fat-containing tissues using a T2-prepared Dixon-TSE sequence”. Yupeng has been a Master student in the TUM Computer Science Department and will be continuing with a PhD at the Technical University of Denmark .Mark Zamskiy defends his thesis on “Direct vertebral and pelvic bone imaging using ultrashort echo time MRI techniques”. Mark has been a Master student in the TUM Physics Department and will be continuing with a PhD in our Group.