We congratulate Lars Schütze for having successfully defended his PhD on December 18th, 2024 on “Runtime Optimization of Contextual Role-oriented Programming Languages”. Lars has been several years at the Chair for Compiler Construction where he greatly contributed to teaching and research, beyond the main topic of his dissertation. His work started in the context of the “Role-based Software Infrastructures for continuous-context-sensitive Systems” (ROSI) which proposed role modeling and Role- Oriented Programming (ROP) as evolution of traditional Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). In his dissertation, Lars advances the area of compilers and virtual environments for efficient dynamic dispatch We are happy that Lars will stay as postdoctoral researcher at the CC chair and look forward to working with him on new research directions.