On the 18th of March 2022, our former colleague Max Schmitt successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Bag-of-Words Representations for Computer Audition’. The examiners were Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Björn Schuller (Max’s supervisor), Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André (Universität Augsburg), Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (Universität Augsburg) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dorothea Kolossa (Ruhr-Universität Bochum). Congratulations, Max!