Congratulations Markus Malo and Sami Väänänen on your PhD defense! The defense was in Kuopio in Finland and attended by Lorenzo Grassi and Hanna Isaksson who was the theses supervisor. Markus's thesis was entitled "Quantitative Characterization of Proximal Femur Using Ultrasound Pulse-Echo Measurements" and Sami's thesis was entitled "Functional imaging of proximal femur by combining dual energy X-ray imaging and finite element simulations". Opponents were Prof Frederic Padilla from France and Prof Philippe Zysset from Switzerland.