We warmly congratulate our colleague Ana-Maria Sîrbu on receiving the Prize of the Friends and Sponsors of the Passau School of Economics! Ms. Sîrbu was honored for her outstanding thesis in the master’s program Information Systems on the topic "The Role of Automatic Versus User-Invoked Explanations in Enhancing User Trust and Adoption of Large Language Models: A Cognitive Effort Perspective". The award was presented during the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Information Systems on March 14, 2025.