sentences:  Via its HPI Academy, the Hasso Plattner Institute also offers professionals an education in Design Thinking and various fields related to information technology.Since October 2005, the HPI’s Research School for "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" has been offering a PhD program modeled to support a more interdisciplinary PhD education.All professors of the HPI with their research groups are supporting pillars for this PhD school whose interdisciplinary structure interconnects the HPI research groups and fosters close and fruitful collaborations.