On February 3rd, 2010 Alena Hallerbach successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Management of Process Variants". The DBIS team is pleased to congratulate Dr. rer. nat. Hallerbach on her successful defense and wishes her all the best for the future. Alena worked in the Provop project, which has been funded by Daimler Research. Alena was supervised by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert .

Members of the PhD committee were Prof. Dr. Uwe Schöning (Chair), Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert, Prof. Dr. Peter Dadam, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Partsch, Prof. Dr. Franz Schweiggert, and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck, External Referee).

	Alena wearing the traditional "doctoral cap"
	Alena with her PhD supervisor Prof. Reichert