We congratulate Tom Friedetzky for his two papers accepted at SODA 26: Balls and Bins and the Infinite Process with Random Deletions (with Petra Berenbrink, Peter Kling, and Lars Nagel) and (Almost) Perfect Discrete Iterative Load Balancing (with Petra Berenbrink, Robert Elsässer, Hamed Hosseinpour, Dominik Kaaser, Peter Kling, and Thomas Sauerwald).