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+author: mkohlhase
+title: "New KWARC Ph.D. Student: Jonas Betzendahl"
+tags: 
+   - Announcements
+---
+We are happy to welcome [Jonas Betzendahl](/people/jbetzendahl) to the KWARC group as a new Ph.D. student.
+Jonas received his Master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Bielefeld; supervised by the KWARC group. He will be working on the [OAF Project](/projects/OAF) on reasoning with undefinedness. 
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+layout: post
+author: mkohlhase
+title: "New KWARC Ph.D. Student: Max Rapp"
+tags: 
+   - Announcements
+---
+We are happy to welcome [Max Rapp](https://kwarc.info/people/mrapp) to the KWARC group as a new Ph.D. student. Dennis received a Masters degree in Mathematics from Freiburg University and will be working on the [OAF Project](http://kwarc.info/projects/OAF), initially importing the PVS library into MathHub.