During this year's doctoral awards ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology, which took place on 5 February 2016, Prof. Manfred Reichert had the honour to provide the laudation for five young doctors of the Insitute of Databases and Information Systems. All of them completed their PhD project during the last six months. Congratulations again to Markus Hipp, Matthias Lohrmann, Bernd Michelberger, Jens Kolb, and Rüdiger Pryss!