On September 15, 2024, Hamza Boughambouz successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Properties and classes of ternary fuzzy relations" at the Mohamed Boudiaf University of M'Sila, Algeria. He was awarded the title of Doctor of Mathematics. Hamza was supervised by Lemnaouar Zedam and Bernard De Baets. He was the fifth Ph.D. student at the University of M'Sila co-supervised by Bernard De Baets.