Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ueli Maurer

Swiss cryptographer and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurichborn 1960

Supervised 39 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata lists 10 doctoral students, names James Massey as teacher, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Ueli Maurer, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Students39

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    James Massey

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Beat Signer

    born 1973

The line above and below

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 90 people: 70 cited by thesis records, 24 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career2

    From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.